Exhibition

This evening I went to my younger sister's final college photography and fashion textiles exhibition which was really cool. Good to see so many people's hard work come together, and those little pieces of paper saying 'Next destination...' and what they're going on to. Kind of exciting.

My sister is at the college I studied at too so it brought back memories to walk back through those doors. I remember when it used to feel so familiar and now it's so distant to me. College was such an ace time I really enjoyed it so much and it's wierd how long ago it seems. At college I studied Performing Arts and English and had some brilliant times with friends there.

At the exhibition we looked at work by the fashion (textiles) students, photography and fine art students. I was very proud of little sister as her work is ace ^_^ My bedroom happens to feature in her photography and I feature in her textiles (a picture of me and her when we were little) which is also cool ;)

All the exhibitions were just so full of images -so many different images, some original, some not, and all those images bombarded at you, and yet we're so used to it these days that they just go into your head so easily. And every single image has influence on you. for instance there were lots of pictures of food and so I started thinking about eating and what I wanted to eat at that moment (namely the things in the pictures) and of course there are far more powerful images around us than that of just food. And they go into our head so easily and influence our thoughts!

On the other hand, we're so used to images that it takes something really major, really different or affecting to us in a certain way for it to stand out to us. And different things will stand out to different people... some images i think we think stand out at the moment we see them, but then we forget them. Others truly impact us and stay with us for the rest of our lives. I know there are certain images for me that just seemed to jump out at me and stick in my head - images I saw when I was really young that have stuck in my mind. Often pictures of real things or moments that impact you are the ones that stand out. Would be cool to know if people agree or what images have impacted you?

Also whilst I was there I bumped into an old friend which was cool :) On the way back I briefly went by the house of a really good friend of mine who is going away to central america for a month on a volunteering trip - which is really cool, but am gonna miss her. (Also went to get chips...wonder if that was the influence of the food pictures lol...)

x

BTW- this particular image is of my sister in the make-up she wore for her fashion show at college last year :)