I spent the day in the installation room, using it as a dark room to develop more pinhole photos. I was hoping to make some through lenses and be more experimental but I became distracted by the kaleidoscope patterns once more. These images are just much more exciting to make, they're pretty ...and i'm worried about lens photos going wrong and wasting paper as I don't really understand the science of how lenses direct light. My prediction is that I'd end up with very vague minimal images, wwhich wouldn't be very exciting to look at. (Nevertheless I really ought to just try it and see).
Although pleasing to the eye, the kaleidoscope images are a bit empty and I feel disappointed with what I achieved this time round. Really there is no concept to it, and therefore no interest or matter to contemplate. They are lovely images to have but clearly these experiments using the kaleidoscope end here.
One question that I have been asking myself is how, If I were to want to show these photos, how would I display them? Would it need to be the pinhole photos on the photography paper to be true to the process? I think I would be most comfortable with this approach because it is the process of using light to make images that I find interesting (otherwise they are just any other images made in a digital way for all the viewer knows). When I put the images on Instagram however, i edited them and made them look more vibrant with more contrast - they were very different images to what is really on the photo paper. Does this matter... that I gave a misleading impression? Or are they both valid images made through different processes?
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