Updates on Projects

So I'm still in the process of constructing my Thursday shoot. On top of all that I am also trying to plan out my next project. I choose my paintings, but now I feel that a recreation of a painting isn't nearly enough. Should we not question what the painting was trying to say then contemporaize it?

For The Picnic on the Grass by Manet, I was thinking of doing a role reversal. Where the naked woman who stares at the viewer is a youthful boy or man and the ones conversing are women. That specific painting was about taking your secret lover out while your wife is doing who knows what. So now its more empowering to women, who can keep a secret agenda of having a boy toy to have picnics with.

For the Goya, I choose myself as a the subject and instead of bats and owls and cats being the monsters. I want to incorporate my own monsters. The piece is called "the sleep that brings forth monsters". And that exactly where I am going to go with that.

I have been weighing my options on the turkish bath but I don't know if I could successful orchestrate such a photo. If i did it documentary style I could just waltz into a YMCA into the women's locker room and secretly start shooting women showering. If only my shutter was silent. I could bring a group of girls in with me but none of us have YMCA memberships. I need to find my girls.. at least 6 and I can just photoshop clones of them.

if that doesn't seem possible then I have the swing. Florida doesn't have lush gardens like that. And this painting is the same thing as Manets just a commissioned piece to show a man and his misteress. I feel like that would be redundant.

I'm not sure whats going to happen with this project. I'm wishing myself good luck.