Photo Project #2

I am in a class right now called, "French and American Cultural Values through Photography." I know, very specific. Our last assignment was to create an arbitrary set of rules, follow them, and take photos. {Inspired after the French photographer Sophie Calle}. So voila, my project:


Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse!
{seize, seize your youth}

I have not been having very much “fun” this semester. I’m really focused on school and doing what needs to be done without really enjoying my BYU experience. I feel like I’m learning everything in my syllabi and nothing else. I wanted to get going and start really enjoying my life in Provo more but I didn’t know where to begin. So I took the ideas of others. Every day I would ask someone what I should do that day, and then I did it.

I was not particularly excited about doing some of the activities I was assigned, because I didn’t feel like they were very “me”. Every day I was living the ideas and imagined activities of someone else, living many different people’s days. I was in the imagination of a 12 year old boy on Monday, a hopeless romantic on Tuesday, a show-off on Wednesday, a silly yet classy person on Thursday and a sports guy on Friday. Despite my reluctance, at the end of week I realized that I genuinely enjoyed every activity that I participated in, and in a small way - j’avais saisi ma jeunesse {I had seized my youth}!

Monday
Asked Facebook
Assignment - (12 year old responded) u should light a bonfire in your backyard


Tuesday
Asked classmate
Assignment - You should dance in the rain with your husband


Wednesday
Asked stranger in the Wilkinson Center
Assignment - Do a cannonball off the diving board in the Richards Buildings


Thursday
Asked best friend
Assignment - Let’s go to Starbucks and wear mustaches


Friday
Asked husband
Assignment - Work on your tennis game