Week 15: Paper Airplane

When I initially read the topic for this week, I wasn't very excited. I'm finding I dislike the topics that are a specific theme because the photos tend to look the same. But then I guess that's the point of the project, right? So, after I stepped back and thought of more conceptual ideas, I got excited.

I had a few different ideas. The first was to recreate a scene from my childhood. At the babysitter's house, us kids would make what seemed like hundreds of paper airplanes. Then we would rearrange the furniture into two "camps," and then we would "bomb" each other with our planes. We got detailed, too. Each camp had a symbol and the planes where decorated as such.

But I knew that would be too labor-intensive, and I had a lot of extra work this week, so it just wasn't going to work out.

Then I thought instead of making the paper airplane the focus of my photo, I would do the opposite; I would hide it. Thus came about the I Spy influence. I loved those books as a kid. So, I gathered nearly every white thing I could find in my house and set it up. I made four paper cranes to throw off the viewers of the picture, and one small paper airplane.

I think the photo turned out well. It was a challenge arranging everything to be in the photo, and I realized after I had published that you can't really see the eggs in the bowl. Oh well.

Can you spot the paper airplane?