With this post, I am concluding this assignment of Point of views. yay!! 
THE SUN
Why did I choose the Sun? Well, I really like the hues of a sunset and it is a beauty in many ways. Its like… well… a little hard to describe but lets hear it from someone else point-of-view, describing it to a blind person:
THE CONCEPT
My concept is to show the contrast between the positive side vs negative side of the sun split with 3 compositions on each side. Also, I have used the same subject matter for each row in contrast.
THE STYLE
Based on my reference pyrograph artist who uses sunlight and a magnifying glass as a condensed form of energy in burning wood to create his artworks, I have decided to emulate the same style of pyrography in digital means with a landscape as a backdrop. I have also used the play of “shadows” in the form of silhouette papercuts layered over my compositions. I used more positive space in the “positive” side and more negative space in the “negative”. I have also subtly added the sun to be in the east on the right side vs the west on the other side.
THE COMPOSITIONS
THE SUN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A BEACH IS PARADISE.
In this composition, I wanted to show a sunset at the beach, where it would look the most amazing when the sun hits the waters, making them sparkle as it dips below the horizon, coupled with the sand on your feet and breeze in your hair.
THE SUN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A DESERT IS TORTURE.
In this composition, I have composited a desperate crawling man being tortured in a desert with immense heat, depicted using the heat waves in the papercut as a form of framing overlay.
THE SUN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A TREE IS GROWTH.
In this composition, I used a backdrop of a farmer working on his crops in the background with a tree in the foreground growing towards the direction of the sun, as the sun is a source of food for its growth.
THE SUN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF LAND IS DROUGHT.
In this composition, I used a barren land with lifeless trees and dried shrubs in the background, with a layer of floor cracks due to the drought in the papercuts.
THE SUN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AN EX-CONVICT IS FREEDOM.
In this composition, I wanted to show freedom in the form of “everything under the sun”. The cityscape is used in juxtoposition with the barbed fence representing the prison.
THE SUN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A BLIND PERSON IS (STILL) BLEAKNESS.
Last but not least, in this last composition, after all my research on blind people, I have tried to simulate what they actually see of the sun. A partial blind may still see either bokehs or parts of blocked vision in black; a once-born-already-blind has never seen the sun, but can feel it from a slight increase of brightness and the warmth; and a once-able-to-see blind will only have a memory of the sun. Hence, I have composited these theories together to create a abstract image of a blind’s perspective.
THE REFLECTION
Having the sun as my subject, it was really too broad and I have came up with so many ideas (too many actually) that could not be linked together easily into six. Conceptualizing was the hardest challenge for me, but I’m really glad that I could finally piece them together. To end this post, here is the machine at home that I use in cutting the papercuts. 