For this project I chose to use an image of the town (Hightstown, NJ) I went to boarding school in. I wanted to dramaticisize the landscape and the emotions
this place held for me while I attended this school. The landscape is flat and sunny where we as students w
ere supposed to stay symbolizing the safeness bubble we were restrained to. As you move further away from campus toward this menacing cave/mountain landscape, this is symbolizing the fear and risks we all took when moving towards this monstrous outside world. See, we were supposed to stay on campus unless we had permission from our parents that we were allowed to leave. The school was in the middle of a town with a large lake. My boarding school was on one side of the lake while the rest of the world was on the other. The sunny, but rocky landscape that is thriving with vegetation is my campus while the cold, icy mountain range across the lake represents the town students (like me) often snuck off into. I had many friends kicked out of school for being found partaking in illegal activities and so the shadowed landscapes represents this darkness and sadness associated with this mysterious place across the lake. I got in trouble numerous times for being found in town when I wasn't supposed to but it was too hard to resist. Everyone knew they couldn't go over there but the mystery of the life bustling around there was too much to resist. My images mainly focus from the viewpoint of looking at this intimidating landscape because I felt like most of my time I spent looking out at this other world and very little time on the other side looking back.
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