This week there were three sketches: One about direct family (without showing any faces), one about objects that define you and one about place/s that define you.

The first one about family, Rooms, was a bit crazy. It’s a combination of my brother’s bed room, and both my parents individual studies. I wanted to make it as unfocused as possible as a defiance to the constraint. I didn’t show any faces, but I didn’t show much of anything at all. The blurred images of my family’s private areas is in my opinion a better way to represent them than stills of their rooms. Stills represent a singular time period. When you get older, memories blur together, and will be vague interpretations of what you have once seen.

The second one, Stuff, is a quick cut series of images of things that represent who I am right now. All 8 letters of my last name come up as letters from my Bluray movie collection. There is a shot of my videogame magazines, which shows a part of me which seems to be diminishing, but still integral to who I am today. I have a shot of my hair and my pomade because I am really focused on my hair right now, and trying to get the exact cut and style I want. I have a shot of my empty flask with the reflection of movie posters on the cap. That represents the fact I’m sober right now and movies are the way I get my high.

The last one, View, is the view that I look at every time I lay on my couch. It’s of a Japanese Maple Tree, which is a tree that I climbed as a kid, and that is the indication of the season for me because it’s so obvious in my backyard. It’ a single shot that moves so the suns rays flicker and flare.

As a whole, this is how I define this week. While life and family are constantly changing and moving, places stay still.