I started the process of creating my second assemblage with a few main concepts and objects. I knew I wanted to focus on the bathroom, specifically the claw-foot bathtub, and use small glass bottles to create a medicine cabinet look.

My first step was to take old family negatives of photographs taken in my childhood bathtub to the darkroom. Unfortunately the negatives were so thin that I couldn’t get the look I was trying to achieve. It was a little disappointing and I decided I probably wouldn’t use those prints in the box. Then, I set up a camera and tripod in my current bathroom and chose to do self-portraits using long exposures and sandwiched negatives. I ended up taking two baths (the first one got so cold!) and two separate rolls of film to get the shots I wanted. Then I spent 6 long hours at the darkroom processing and printing but was pleasantly surprised that they turned out exactly how I wanted them to with a Francesca-Woodman-like creepy factor. I drew some of my inspiration from her photo entitled Bath from 1980 (shown below). 

I found the box I used at an antique store and ordered bottles to fit into it on Amazon.com. I then brainstormed a list of 24 things that I could fill these tiny bottles with that would tell a bathroom story from my childhood or represent a nostalgic memory. For example, one bottle holds three of my baby teeth, nostalgic for obvious reasons. Another is filled with children’s chewable Tylenol that I once ate a whole bottle of (because they were yummy, and perhaps also a little bit for the attention) as a child and almost had to get my stomach pumped. Once I had filled all of the bottles I spent at least an hour arranging and rearranging the bottles to get the balance and composition just right.

I also used an antique curling iron to create an old-timey look while also commenting on the bathroom as a place for female beautification. I know that as an adult, much of my relationship with my bathroom consists of doing my hair and makeup. I curled the piece of hair that is displayed in the box using the old curling iron and it amazes me that a woman would ever go to such great lengths to curl her hair. That’s some crazy business.

I want this box to serve as an intricate portrait of the small, but important domestic space we call the bathroom and my personal experience with it.

*I will be adding a separate page to my site with a statement and photos of box #2 after our next critique!

I started the process of creating my second assemblage with a few main concepts and objects. I knew I wanted to focus on the bathroom, specifically the claw-foot bathtub, and use small glass bottles to create a medicine cabinet look.

My first step was to take old family negatives of photographs taken in my childhood bathtub to the darkroom. Unfortunately the negatives were so thin that I couldn’t get the look I was trying to achieve. It was a little disappointing and I decided I probably wouldn’t use those prints in the box. Then, I set up a camera and tripod in my current bathroom and chose to do self-portraits using long exposures and sandwiched negatives. I ended up taking two baths (the first one got so cold!) and two separate rolls of film to get the shots I wanted. Then I spent 6 long hours at the darkroom processing and printing but was pleasantly surprised that they turned out exactly how I wanted them to with a Francesca-Woodman-like creepy factor. I drew some of my inspiration from her photo entitled Bath from 1980 (shown below). 

I found the box I used at an antique store and ordered bottles to fit into it on Amazon.com. I then brainstormed a list of 24 things that I could fill these tiny bottles with that would tell a bathroom story from my childhood or represent a nostalgic memory. For example, one bottle holds three of my baby teeth, nostalgic for obvious reasons. Another is filled with children’s chewable Tylenol that I once ate a whole bottle of (because they were yummy, and perhaps also a little bit for the attention) as a child and almost had to get my stomach pumped. Once I had filled all of the bottles I spent at least an hour arranging and rearranging the bottles to get the balance and composition just right.

I also used an antique curling iron to create an old-timey look while also commenting on the bathroom as a place for female beautification. I know that as an adult, much of my relationship with my bathroom consists of doing my hair and makeup. I curled the piece of hair that is displayed in the box using the old curling iron and it amazes me that a woman would ever go to such great lengths to curl her hair. That’s some crazy business.

I want this box to serve as an intricate portrait of the small, but important domestic space we call the bathroom and my personal experience with it.

*I will be adding a separate page to my site with a statement and photos of box #2 after our next critique!

I started the process of creating my second assemblage with a few main concepts and objects. I knew I wanted to focus on the bathroom, specifically the claw-foot bathtub, and use small glass bottles to create a medicine cabinet look.

My first step was to take old family negatives of photographs taken in my childhood bathtub to the darkroom. Unfortunately the negatives were so thin that I couldn’t get the look I was trying to achieve. It was a little disappointing and I decided I probably wouldn’t use those prints in the box. Then, I set up a camera and tripod in my current bathroom and chose to do self-portraits using long exposures and sandwiched negatives. I ended up taking two baths (the first one got so cold!) and two separate rolls of film to get the shots I wanted. Then I spent 6 long hours at the darkroom processing and printing but was pleasantly surprised that they turned out exactly how I wanted them to with a Francesca-Woodman-like creepy factor. I drew some of my inspiration from her photo entitled Bath from 1980 (shown below). 

I found the box I used at an antique store and ordered bottles to fit into it on Amazon.com. I then brainstormed a list of 24 things that I could fill these tiny bottles with that would tell a bathroom story from my childhood or represent a nostalgic memory. For example, one bottle holds three of my baby teeth, nostalgic for obvious reasons. Another is filled with children’s chewable Tylenol that I once ate a whole bottle of (because they were yummy, and perhaps also a little bit for the attention) as a child and almost had to get my stomach pumped. Once I had filled all of the bottles I spent at least an hour arranging and rearranging the bottles to get the balance and composition just right.

I also used an antique curling iron to create an old-timey look while also commenting on the bathroom as a place for female beautification. I know that as an adult, much of my relationship with my bathroom consists of doing my hair and makeup. I curled the piece of hair that is displayed in the box using the old curling iron and it amazes me that a woman would ever go to such great lengths to curl her hair. That’s some crazy business.

I want this box to serve as an intricate portrait of the small, but important domestic space we call the bathroom and my personal experience with it.

*I will be adding a separate page to my site with a statement and photos of box #2 after our next critique!

I started the process of creating my second assemblage with a few main concepts and objects. I knew I wanted to focus on the bathroom, specifically the claw-foot bathtub, and use small glass bottles to create a medicine cabinet look.

My first step was to take old family negatives of photographs taken in my childhood bathtub to the darkroom. Unfortunately the negatives were so thin that I couldn’t get the look I was trying to achieve. It was a little disappointing and I decided I probably wouldn’t use those prints in the box. Then, I set up a camera and tripod in my current bathroom and chose to do self-portraits using long exposures and sandwiched negatives. I ended up taking two baths (the first one got so cold!) and two separate rolls of film to get the shots I wanted. Then I spent 6 long hours at the darkroom processing and printing but was pleasantly surprised that they turned out exactly how I wanted them to with a Francesca-Woodman-like creepy factor. I drew some of my inspiration from her photo entitled Bath from 1980 (shown below). 

I found the box I used at an antique store and ordered bottles to fit into it on Amazon.com. I then brainstormed a list of 24 things that I could fill these tiny bottles with that would tell a bathroom story from my childhood or represent a nostalgic memory. For example, one bottle holds three of my baby teeth, nostalgic for obvious reasons. Another is filled with children’s chewable Tylenol that I once ate a whole bottle of (because they were yummy, and perhaps also a little bit for the attention) as a child and almost had to get my stomach pumped. Once I had filled all of the bottles I spent at least an hour arranging and rearranging the bottles to get the balance and composition just right.

I also used an antique curling iron to create an old-timey look while also commenting on the bathroom as a place for female beautification. I know that as an adult, much of my relationship with my bathroom consists of doing my hair and makeup. I curled the piece of hair that is displayed in the box using the old curling iron and it amazes me that a woman would ever go to such great lengths to curl her hair. That’s some crazy business.

I want this box to serve as an intricate portrait of the small, but important domestic space we call the bathroom and my personal experience with it.

*I will be adding a separate page to my site with a statement and photos of box #2 after our next critique!

I started the process of creating my second assemblage with a few main concepts and objects. I knew I wanted to focus on the bathroom, specifically the claw-foot bathtub, and use small glass bottles to create a medicine cabinet look.

My first step was to take old family negatives of photographs taken in my childhood bathtub to the darkroom. Unfortunately the negatives were so thin that I couldn’t get the look I was trying to achieve. It was a little disappointing and I decided I probably wouldn’t use those prints in the box. Then, I set up a camera and tripod in my current bathroom and chose to do self-portraits using long exposures and sandwiched negatives. I ended up taking two baths (the first one got so cold!) and two separate rolls of film to get the shots I wanted. Then I spent 6 long hours at the darkroom processing and printing but was pleasantly surprised that they turned out exactly how I wanted them to with a Francesca-Woodman-like creepy factor. I drew some of my inspiration from her photo entitled Bath from 1980 (shown below). 

I found the box I used at an antique store and ordered bottles to fit into it on Amazon.com. I then brainstormed a list of 24 things that I could fill these tiny bottles with that would tell a bathroom story from my childhood or represent a nostalgic memory. For example, one bottle holds three of my baby teeth, nostalgic for obvious reasons. Another is filled with children’s chewable Tylenol that I once ate a whole bottle of (because they were yummy, and perhaps also a little bit for the attention) as a child and almost had to get my stomach pumped. Once I had filled all of the bottles I spent at least an hour arranging and rearranging the bottles to get the balance and composition just right.

I also used an antique curling iron to create an old-timey look while also commenting on the bathroom as a place for female beautification. I know that as an adult, much of my relationship with my bathroom consists of doing my hair and makeup. I curled the piece of hair that is displayed in the box using the old curling iron and it amazes me that a woman would ever go to such great lengths to curl her hair. That’s some crazy business.

I want this box to serve as an intricate portrait of the small, but important domestic space we call the bathroom and my personal experience with it.

*I will be adding a separate page to my site with a statement and photos of box #2 after our next critique!

I started the process of creating my second assemblage with a few main concepts and objects. I knew I wanted to focus on the bathroom, specifically the claw-foot bathtub, and use small glass bottles to create a medicine cabinet look.

My first step was to take old family negatives of photographs taken in my childhood bathtub to the darkroom. Unfortunately the negatives were so thin that I couldn’t get the look I was trying to achieve. It was a little disappointing and I decided I probably wouldn’t use those prints in the box. Then, I set up a camera and tripod in my current bathroom and chose to do self-portraits using long exposures and sandwiched negatives. I ended up taking two baths (the first one got so cold!) and two separate rolls of film to get the shots I wanted. Then I spent 6 long hours at the darkroom processing and printing but was pleasantly surprised that they turned out exactly how I wanted them to with a Francesca-Woodman-like creepy factor. I drew some of my inspiration from her photo entitled Bath from 1980 (shown below). 

I found the box I used at an antique store and ordered bottles to fit into it on Amazon.com. I then brainstormed a list of 24 things that I could fill these tiny bottles with that would tell a bathroom story from my childhood or represent a nostalgic memory. For example, one bottle holds three of my baby teeth, nostalgic for obvious reasons. Another is filled with children’s chewable Tylenol that I once ate a whole bottle of (because they were yummy, and perhaps also a little bit for the attention) as a child and almost had to get my stomach pumped. Once I had filled all of the bottles I spent at least an hour arranging and rearranging the bottles to get the balance and composition just right.

I also used an antique curling iron to create an old-timey look while also commenting on the bathroom as a place for female beautification. I know that as an adult, much of my relationship with my bathroom consists of doing my hair and makeup. I curled the piece of hair that is displayed in the box using the old curling iron and it amazes me that a woman would ever go to such great lengths to curl her hair. That’s some crazy business.

I want this box to serve as an intricate portrait of the small, but important domestic space we call the bathroom and my personal experience with it.

*I will be adding a separate page to my site with a statement and photos of box #2 after our next critique!

Today I shot two rolls of film trying to get the photographs I want for my second assemblage. I’ve never done long exposures though, and it was a lot of work to try to get the lighting right. I took many shots with the shutter open, trying to capture movement, as well as some single shots that I want to overlap onto one another in the darkroom. I still have no idea whether or not any of the photographs from the first roll will come out, but I really wanted to try anyway. I guess we’ll see what happens when I go to process the film tomorrow, I hope I have enough useable shots to make my vision for the box come to life.

In other news, I had to order bottles online so that they would all be the same size and fit into the box I am using and they came in the mail today! Yay! It felt like I was opening a science kit or something.

I started to fill them with things like my baby teeth (because I’m weird like that) and my dad’s grey hair.

I was also able to find some cool objects to use at the flea market including an old pair of nail scissors and an antique curling iron. (see photo at top)

Today I shot two rolls of film trying to get the photographs I want for my second assemblage. I’ve never done long exposures though, and it was a lot of work to try to get the lighting right. I took many shots with the shutter open, trying to capture movement, as well as some single shots that I want to overlap onto one another in the darkroom. I still have no idea whether or not any of the photographs from the first roll will come out, but I really wanted to try anyway. I guess we’ll see what happens when I go to process the film tomorrow, I hope I have enough useable shots to make my vision for the box come to life.

In other news, I had to order bottles online so that they would all be the same size and fit into the box I am using and they came in the mail today! Yay! It felt like I was opening a science kit or something.

I started to fill them with things like my baby teeth (because I’m weird like that) and my dad’s grey hair.

I was also able to find some cool objects to use at the flea market including an old pair of nail scissors and an antique curling iron. (see photo at top)

Today I shot two rolls of film trying to get the photographs I want for my second assemblage. I’ve never done long exposures though, and it was a lot of work to try to get the lighting right. I took many shots with the shutter open, trying to capture movement, as well as some single shots that I want to overlap onto one another in the darkroom. I still have no idea whether or not any of the photographs from the first roll will come out, but I really wanted to try anyway. I guess we’ll see what happens when I go to process the film tomorrow, I hope I have enough useable shots to make my vision for the box come to life.

In other news, I had to order bottles online so that they would all be the same size and fit into the box I am using and they came in the mail today! Yay! It felt like I was opening a science kit or something.

I started to fill them with things like my baby teeth (because I’m weird like that) and my dad’s grey hair.

I was also able to find some cool objects to use at the flea market including an old pair of nail scissors and an antique curling iron. (see photo at top)

Today I shot two rolls of film trying to get the photographs I want for my second assemblage. I’ve never done long exposures though, and it was a lot of work to try to get the lighting right. I took many shots with the shutter open, trying to capture movement, as well as some single shots that I want to overlap onto one another in the darkroom. I still have no idea whether or not any of the photographs from the first roll will come out, but I really wanted to try anyway. I guess we’ll see what happens when I go to process the film tomorrow, I hope I have enough useable shots to make my vision for the box come to life.

In other news, I had to order bottles online so that they would all be the same size and fit into the box I am using and they came in the mail today! Yay! It felt like I was opening a science kit or something.

I started to fill them with things like my baby teeth (because I’m weird like that) and my dad’s grey hair.

I was also able to find some cool objects to use at the flea market including an old pair of nail scissors and an antique curling iron. (see photo at top)