Week 5: Kinetic

UC Irvine, CA.

This week I have chosen kinetic as my topic. I chose this after taking these photos on my phone, outside Studio A, on campus tonight. I was walking to my car after a particularly long night, and caught the light through the trees projecting shadows on the wall. In this photo, the image appears fractured and the shadows feel kinetic – as if caught mid-motion. I love this adjective because it is so descriptive; it is so full of movement and energy. In the theatre nothing is static, everything has movement and energy, so this topic feels appropriate for theatricality. It is hard, however, to capture kinetic in a photo, because the nature of photography is stillness – a moment captured in one frame, and then gone.

UC Irvine, CA.

The shadows of this image are expressive to me, with a quality that is mysterious and painterly. I love the image for its ambiguity, because within its mystery there exists something that is much more powerful than the clarity of an object, or even a person – and that is expression. Therein lies the nature of theatre, something that has its own energy (its own "kineticism"). The information presented in the image is unimportant, so the feelings it extracts are what give it life.