My Show!

To see the images from my show and read my artist's statement, click Here

Hey everybody!  So my Bachelor's of Fine Art Show went up last Thursday.  I have been working on it for the past six months and it is such a relief to be done.  It looks so good on the wall.  A lot of my friends and teachers were able to come and my family will be able to come in about two weeks!

I wanted to create work that was beautiful and educational.  I wanted to teach people how simple photography really is and I think I was able to accomplish that.  My favorite part of the show was when parents would come in and tell their kids "Look at these images!  They came from homemade camera's that you can make!  you don't need an expensive camera to make art.  We should try this."

Here is the set up, I have my own hallway on the second floor of the Spori building.  On the left are some camera's that people can pick up and look at.  I felt like that was necessary for people to grasp the concept.  Not shown is a video tutorial I made showing the process of making and taking images with a pinhole camera.

Here is me before the show!  I was so nervous.

Here is Ben before the show!  He was not nervous.

After the show!  Not nervous anymore!

Thanksgiving 2010

We had a wonderful thanksgiving with some friends in the ward and their family.  Here is the beautiful turkey.  It was so very delicious and not a bit dry.

Less than two weeks!

13 days until my show opens at the Spori Gallery here on campus!  I am so excited but so nervous.  Today was spent printing everything.  Tomorrow will be spent framing everything.  And then I have a photoshoot!  Very exciting.

Life here hasn't been all that interesting lately.  Ben and I spend most of our days at school and then we eat and go to sleep.  Weekends are spent cleaning and doing laundry and doing homework.  I cannot wait to get out of school, work on my State Farm license, and finally be a good wife!  I can't wait until Ben and I can both go to work all day and then come home and not worry about it until the next day.  I can't wait to have a clean house that isn't oozing with bookarts tools and dirty dishes.  I can't wait until we move into a more permanent residence so that i won't feel dumb about decorating.  Pretty much, I can't wait to move on to the next big adventure :)

Many of you might remember the little car chaos Ben and I had a few weeks ago.  The first week of school Ben's car got hit while Ben was sitting at a red light.  Dumb?  I know.  So pretty much it was totalled.  And the guy's insurance took forever to contact us and like a week to get us a rental.  So after finally getting a rental they decided to take it away.  And then it took them another month and a half to get us a check to get a new car.  So we had to walk to school.  And you know what?  It was actually not that bad.  Ben and I grew so close on our long walks home from school.  We were able to slow down and talk and it was really rather great.  We started counting our blessings:  We were both safe, we had great friends to take us shopping, we would eventually be getting a better car, we saved so much on gas, and we really started looking out for eachother a lot.  A couple weeks ago we bought a new car!  And even though I am so glad we have it now that it is snowing, I'm kinda glad we were without it for a little while.

Just so everyone is aware...

I have a new blog!  For by business class we have to show our online portfolio to some potential clients and I wasn't sure I wanted clients reading all about my personal life.  It's the perfect time to launch my new blog:

www.rachelbetts.blogspot.com

For now it's just images from my portrait class but expect great things soon...

A Preview...

Matchbox Pinhole Camera - Color Film

BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts Project
That's what I work on all the time.  And when I'm in other classes it's what I think about.  I'm dying right now because the photo lab is closed on Sundays.  My project will be different from other people's.  The past few days I was a wreck because of how different my images are from other BFA Student's work.  I was worried that people wouldn't appreciate dark, blurry, pinhole images.  For some reason I was also very worried that President Clark would hate it...But I talked to my teacher and he said that once people see the process and time that goes into pinhole photography, they will appreciate the images.  And that's the whole point of my project anyway, to explain the process of creating an image.  It's not just about pointing and clicking a shutter, it's about light, dark, sensors, and pinholes.  I can't wait for you to see my project :)

Our Vacation:

-California
-Boogie Boarding
-Meeting Family
-Beaches
-Rodeo's
-Digging Holes
-Hugging Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents
-The Fair
-Campfires
-Barbeques
-Inception
-Kayaking
-Zoo's
-Baby Zebras
-Bathing Suits
-New Babies
-Old Babies
-Friends!
-Singing
-Playing Nertz, Ticket to Ride, Shanghai Rummy, Monopoly Deal, & Phase 10
-Finally Getting Rid of our Couch
-Sandals
-Working
-Photographing
-Thunderstorms
-Snow Cones
-Farmer's Market Salsa & Tortillas
- And we still have a couple more weeks!