Camera Obscura! Well going into this, I had no idea what to expect from this. First, I did not know what camera obscura was. Second, I didn't know what to expect from the presentation that we were going to. And third, I didn't know what my reaction was going to be with what I saw because I had no idea what I was going to be seeing. So, I get there and I am told to go through the black drape. I enter into darkness and go the wrong way! My eyes finally adjust to the dark and I see people standing the opposite way looking at something on the other side of the wall. I hurry over and scoot my way in to focus my eyes on what people were watching. I finally realize this is camera obscura. The idea of camera obscura, I find, is very interesting. How he takes cameras and records the outside to shine it on the wall on the inside in an abstract way. I am still confused on how it all works, but I think Ethan Jackson has something interesting going on. What I liked most about the camera obscura that he set up for us at Kenilworth was that we could see people arriving there that was part of our class. Because I realized moments before I entered people were seeing me on the wall because I parked right in front of where he was recording! I found that humorous because I was acting goofy outside and my class saw that. I liked the presentation he gave about how he created a huge project from an old church. He casted the obscura across the ceiling of the old church which showed skies, clouds, sun, trees and tips of buildings. Overall it was an interesting project to see and I really enjoyed it.
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