On our first day back to University, we were set an 'Intentions' project. We had to take a single photograph of anything we wanted, and write a 200 word statement on the expected reaction to our image. Above is the photograph I took. I did expect that people would laugh, but they didn't; they smiled.
The aim of the photograph was to create a childlike drawing of a house to make the viewer think of home. The paper is crumpled up to demonstrate how when we grow up we lose this innocent way of thinking and seeing things, and always aim for perfection. As a child we don't always care if we colour slightly outside the lines or if we don't get the picture right the first time round - this would explain the scissors in the photograph, they're there again to show the idea that these thoughts and ideas have been cut up. However, though these are the reasons I took the photograph, I wanted each viewer to have a different view of the photograph, I wanted it to mean different things to different people.
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