Think – My Video of the Snapshot Exhibition

This is a video about the Snapshot gallery that I created with two other friends. I honestly thought that the whole day would be just another event that Macaulay gave. I didn’t know that I would get so interested in the video that we was making. It was the perfect outlet. A phrase had been stuck in my head all week: “In brightest day. In blackest night.” from Green Lantern’s catchphrase. And I finally got to use it.

We saw the day and night pictures and decided that the phrase could be illustrated using those two panels. Then we asked ourselves: “why not go with a good vs evil theme for the whole project?” We thought it was a little ambitious centering the whole movie on an idea. What if the idea was not supported? Surprisingly, we found pictures of evil things like littering and stolen bikes, all pertinent to our idea. And then we tried looking justice-fighting things among the photos. Here, we almost gave up. We found a mundane picture of a police car; that was the closest we got to a superhero figure. However, then we saw a whole panel on the Wall Street Protest, and found that the superheros of New York were actually ourselves.

We even added a section where people waited. There was a photo of a riot waiting for change, and a photo of a man looking into the sky as if he was waiting for a Superman. And then I realized how lucky we were with our project. The different sections appeared to us and guided us along until we finished, half an hour after the morning group left. Creating the artwork was kind of like…looking into the sky waiting for a superhero to come. From our experience, we were afraid that nothing would happen with our project, but it seemed as if some greater force took up the project under its wing and let us finish it. We just came in with that idea.

There’s an idea out there that all stories exist out there, and that the job of an artist is search for these rainbows hoping that they exist with their pots of gold. In many ways, creating art is an act of faith, taking an idea and praying that a story exists with the themes being played around with. But even after the story is found, the artist still has to do a whole lot of climbing to get over the rainbow.