Final Project Proposal

1. The conceptual basis for my work is illustrating heritage in a unique way, which also speaks to the frail nature of time.
2. I will be taking old family photos and scanning them into Photoshop.
3. Even though she was a high school student, and not a professional artist at the time of her project, the prime artistic inspiration for my project is Grace Pickford.
http://www.studentartguide.com/featured/high-school-painting-projects-portraiture
4. This project will challenge me in several ways. First, I will attempt to scan old pictures without losing massive amounts of quality, realizing that some quality is inevitably lost in a transfer like that. It will also challenge me in the ways I think about presentation, for I am attempting to present my work in a very different way than I ever thought I would.
5. For my final prints, I will have one big photo of a bare tree branch on a large print, luster type paper. I am not, at this time, sure what the actual size for this image will need to be. I will also print photographs of my grandmother, my mother, and myself on transparency sheets. These will be about a third of the size of the tree branch. I anticipate these "found" images to be low in saturation and vibrancy, as they are quite old. My own images will be altered to match these styles. I will then either find an old overhead projector or build my own homemade projector in order to project these images onto the photo of the tree branch which will hang on the wall in front of the projector. Therefore, this project is a pseudo family tree project (albeit, on a smaller scale).
6. If you have any access to overhead projectors, I would love instructions for borrowing one temporarily. If at all possible, I would also like to borrow one of the digital cameras from you over Thanksgiving break, though that is not imperative for the completion of my project.