looking ahead

I've started thinking a lot about my senior project lately. I've been so worried that i wouldn't be able to come up with something that i was passionate about. One thing Hedi Lowe talked about in Design & Production was having heart in your work. If you don't love what you make, it will never be as good as it could have been. You make your best work out of things you were inspired by and cared about.

My mom teaches at a school near a mental hospital that has new buildings and some old, abandoned ones. It's going to be torn down soon which makes me really sad because i think the buildings are beautiful. I remember seeing them since I was five years old and driving to my mom's school. I had to work for my mom the other day so I drove through the center and took pictures of some of the old buildings. Something about them really fascinates me! So, I started thinking about the what old mental hospitals used to be like, what kind of unprecedented methods they would use for treatment, etc. That got me thinking of all the crazy medical instruments used on patients. There's so many places my mind goes to when i think of all this stuff and possible projects. I'm going to try and talk to someone at the facility to see if i could get escorted around the buildings to take photographs with my nice camera. I'm hoping they will let me because I think actually getting up close and personal to the old buildings would make my projects even better.

It's kind of weird how random ideas will come to me but i'm so excited about this.