Summer 2011

For photography I had to find a photo which represents my summer and write a paragraph about it.. so I used a pretty picture of fabric.

                                      Summer 2011, how to define thee?

            My summer was spent slaving away at my mundane workplace, which disguises itself as an exhilarating haven for quilters and seamstresses everywhere, Fabricland. The land of fabric stole away my summer as I woke up at 8:00 am every morning only to find myself working long 9-5 shifts in the most dusty and allergy-inducing building on the planet. On the plus side, the fabric is pretty, which is why I chose this photo to represent my fabricland-filled summer ‘vacation’. The entire focus of the photo is on the neatly folded, aesthetically pleasing pile of textiles, which brings about a certain cleanness and freshness in the photo (although, ‘clean’ and ‘fresh’ are hardly two words to describe Fabricland). Another element used particularly well in the photo is colour, I’m automatically drawn to the warmness of the browns, reds, oranges and yellows, and it makes the photo that much more enjoyable. Something I quite take pleasure in is the contrast between the cool colours of the background and the warm fabrics which become the heart of the photo. Unfortunately, holidays spent working with elderly women in a frozen tundra of a building, with people asking idiotic questions like, “Do you sell fabric?” is not an ideal situation for me. So I’d like to steal away to a place where my summer was spent folding delicate cloth in a bright, temperate, building with large windows that let the sun burst through to brighten the faces of everyone present as well as my own mood. Ultimately, I chose this photo not quite to represent my summer, but to represent what I wish it was.

-A