The Lightbulb Project

Week 35 - "Flowers"

I was really inspired (again) with Joel Robison 's post about the bees. I hadn't caught up yet on the Week 35 "Flowers" theme because i was going to create something new. However...in thinking about my time in the Lavender fields of Washington - I found myself wanting to revisit what I captured while there. I found more than that - a really cool memory! It was towards the end of the trip and it was a lovely lavender farm, but also had a resident peacock and a small garden of ALL kinds of flowers. It was a perfectly overcast day...and I stopped to take photos of the unopened sunflowers. I got a bit more than that.... so here is week 35 "Flowers". #thelightbulbproject_flowers #memories #lavenderfields #inspiration <3

BTS of "Earth" created 05 14 2018

Week 34 "Earth" - I'll title this "ashes to ashes dust to dust". While there are many things we have in common - we have many things different. One thing that is sure - we're all going to become dust again one day. I don't like to think about death as much as being alive...but when I think about earth...that is what I think of. We're here for a time...and then we are gone. So this piece is something I just went outside and captured today in my yard. Our yard is pretty gross. Some of it is spotty and dry...other parts are green and gorgeous. There is nothing consistent about it...but we just let it be. Pausing for a moment to enjoy the fruits of the earth and the seed of my daughter. <3 #thelightbulbproject_earth #fineart #selfportrait

Week 34 - "Earth"

Week 34 "Earth" - I'll title this "ashes to ashes dust to dust". While there are many things we have in common - we have many things different. One thing that is sure - we're all going to become dust again one day. I don't like to think about death as much as being alive...but when I think about earth...that is what I think of. We're here for a time...and then we are gone. So this piece is something I just went outside and captured today in my yard. Our yard is pretty gross. Some of it is spotty and dry...other parts are green and gorgeous. There is nothing consistent about it...but we just let it be. Pausing for a moment to enjoy the fruits of the earth and the seed of my daughter. <3 #thelightbulbproject_earth #fineart #selfportrait

Week 33 "doorway"

Week 33 - "Doorway" I'm going to start with all honesty! I had originally wanted to PAINT a doorway and make art from there. I sat down the other day to do it...and realized it was pretty much the ugliest door ever. I can paint from pictures, but not from my mind. (make sense?) So i scrapped that idea. Now, this post will also buddy-up with #thelightbulbproject_oneday where we talk about the things we will "one day" do. Well, after a lot of time waiting and getting approved to teach a small class - my one day became a reality. This image is a production of that class. I had a model setup, a creepy dress and images to project onto her. You cannot always predict where your art will go - and I like it that way. So, I'm giving you #thelightbulbproject_doorway . The doorway was presented to me to teach and i walked through it to do it. This is a final image of sorts from that evening 2 days ago...and I made my doorway an electric portal. It is who I am....and I love me! <3 ENJOY!!! Week 33 - "Doorway"

Week 32 - "Dream"

I'm going to play a bit of catchup.....I did a lot of photography over easter week....and hope to mesh themes with what i've captured. For now, I'm going to go out of order...but determined to catch up! <3 This image was captured from an idea...a dream....a very simple one. How does one shoot and capture a picture inside a tiny pod? I brought out my very old camera (my first digital one, 5MP) and the fisheye extension. I couldn't have been happier to have a 3-minute photo shoot in the pod inside the Arch of St Louis. It was thrilling actually...to only have 3 minutes to capture a dream <3 I hope you are capturing YOUR dreams this year! <3 *hugs* #thelightbulbproject_dream

Week 31 "Everyday"

there is nothing glamorous about changing dirty diapers everyday....but its something we all do...our bodies do this ...everyday.......someone changed our dirty diapers daily....and yet THIS is an everyday for me right now...I know it is not forever...it is something I do for a season. (at least most times it works this way). It took a lot of pain/loss to get to our baby girl Miracle so i will celebrate this every day...in an artistic form! LOL :) Just be glad i don't use color...its cooler this way. :) #thelightbulbproject_everyday week 31 (i'm still catching up)

Week 30 - "Quote"

I wanted to use a quote from a song lyric I like...its a pretty powerful declaration that maybe you don't normally think of. I think of our insides needing cleansing or a burning passion....so when i hear this song and lyrics...I literally want to be "burned alive" inside. I don't want death to overtake me - I want to LIVE out the life given to me. <3 hope you enjoy - first time to make fire in PS. :) #thelightbulbproject_quote "“Living just isn't hard enough Burn me alive, inside Living my life's not hard enough Take everything away” – Disturbd, “Prayer” There are multi-dimenions you can take from this - today, I want to burn ALIVE! <3 model: Jane Love

Week 29 "One Day"

Week 29 - I've worked backwards because I didn't know where to go with some of these themes. Here lately the desire to teach a class (even a small one) has come up again. I've done many small creative gatherings...I love small groups...I feel so connected in just a handful of people - us creating together...making our own magic & imagination. My "One Day" is actually about to be a reality. Over the last year or more I've been using projection has a new creative outlet. I've seen my work morph into new ideas...new creations and new experiences just playing with this lighting aspect. It is not as easy as it looks. Not every image works. Not every pose works. Not every location works. I said all that to say - next week I'll be teaching a class on "Projection as inspiration". I'm addicted to it and eager to push myself again and collaborate with my fellow creatives to see what we find out about our work and ourselves! I can't wait! Part of the process of ideas is *playing*. #thelightbulbproject_oneday Here is an image at random from the last photo convention i was at. And inside this image is me working with other creatives. This is my happy place! What is yours? (BTS photo by: Dale Ralph) Model: Victoria Weiss

Week 28 "Many"

many things have gotten my attention this week... many emotions have flown high with concepts & ideas brewing many rolls of epoxy putty have been laid to rest on my forming mask. many thanks go out to all who are able to put up with me. many triangles make a pattern. many things can and will go right with this idea. many days have passed since putting this into action. many are the moments i will treasure when i have quiet time and time to just be present and use my hands to make something. #thelightbulbproject_many i will come back to location.... <3 this is my current idea/project - making a mask from various inspirations to capture at a photography convention at the end of this month. and yes, most likely this will be worn upside down. I always seem to flip things.

Week 27 - "Location"

in the efforts to get caught up....i'm posting the one i had been holding back on....i had wanted to visit somewhere new...but i'm reclusive lately - or if i've visited something new...i don't have my camera. However...i was inspired to re-visit a tunnel in which i had only used once. My friend had a CO2 cannon and we wanted to have fun with smoky atmospheres. I'm in love with this image because of its location making it fun to shoot...and create some wonderful night art. #thelightbulbproject_location

BTS "Music" - March 2018

Week 26 "Music"

I'm sorry to be so NOT on time lately with the themes....however...I'm proud to have taken a small thing in my head and simply captured it. For quite a few years now I've had this hand-winding music box. Its raw, not enclosed in anything...and plays "You are My Sunshine". I had used this for another conceptual piece (vision) a while back. I like how simplistic music can be. A few beats of a drum....a few notes to make a song...so i stayed simplistic and inspired. <3 Thank you! <3 #thelightbulbproject_music

BTS "Open" Feb. 2018

Week 25 "Open"

I pass by this vintage decanter every day in my house. It is one of those objects i adore...i think of a genie in a bottle almost every time i see it. I think of what may have been held inside many years ago. For this theme - I just wanted to play with the idea of myself being inside the bottle and it being opened so I could come outward. A lot of my early life I did feel locked up - scared, timid & shy. Through many years of finding freedom in who I am....I was able to become FREE to be myself and the artist I am today. So here is just me - playing around...and happy to be here <3 #thelightbulbproject_open Pink Light Images

Week 24 - BTS " Love"

I haven't been myself this week. I've been a little down and out with inspiration and art. There is a lot going on in this world - not just INSIDE my world. (my insides) I found myself needing comfort in some form and I saw myself comforting myself in this image of Love. As i captured this tonight - my cat ran up to lay on me. I left him in the image as he is totally a representation of comfort and love I've been given over the last 9 years or so. Such a great cat. My ideas are still forming...I made clouds to represent a sort of atmosphere (world) and there are three of them. Take what you will from the image - I will take it as comfort knowing I can create even when I'm a mess. <3 #thelightbulbproject_love Love yourself. Love others. the shadows are a mess...and i'm leaving it. So there.

Week 24 "Love"

I haven't been myself this week. I've been a little down and out with inspiration and art. There is a lot going on in this world - not just INSIDE my world. (my insides) I found myself needing comfort in some form and I saw myself comforting myself in this image of Love. As i captured this tonight - my cat ran up to lay on me. I left him in the image as he is totally a representation of comfort and love I've been given over the last 9 years or so. Such a great cat. My ideas are still forming...I made clouds to represent a sort of atmosphere (world) and there are three of them. Take what you will from the image - I will take it as comfort knowing I can create even when I'm a mess. <3 #thelightbulbproject_love Love yourself. Love others. the shadows are a mess...and i'm leaving it. So there.

Week 23 "Time"

I went a little abstract in my mind with my first idea...I photographed pinwheels...and imagine maybe time was spinning and i was jumping from wheel to wheel. I was ok with it - but not 100% sold. I stopped for a moment to REALLY look at myself. I took all these images tonite...and after 10.5 months after having a baby - I saw myself looking really amazing. My hair is grown out, my roots are showing....my body shape is strong and my hard work is starting to pay off with my strength training. I saw TIME manifesting on my body and spirit as I contorted through various positions. In this messy messy world - I left parts of this a mess. I blended these version of myself and left all the shadows overlapping the other me's. I like dark. I like light. I dance in between them all day after day. So....there we are. #thelightbulbproject_time

Week 22 - BTS Technology

here is the behind the scenes of "Technology" theme from the #lightbulbproject_technology - had fun...yet it was so challenging to make something!

Week 22 - "Technology"

I've been pretty much struggling in my brain to get something out for 'technology'. I had so many ideas....sortof. I had so few ideas...sortof. I know that tech plays a huge role in most of our lives....except those that are off grid in some way. I had this idea of an app where I can access myself. I had started with a square device, but ultimately decided on a round one. I just tried to let the idea develop...so I could move forward. The other idea behind this is so someone else can hit the app button to access you. So many things these days can feel robotic...our actions...our artwork...our thinking...so this is a 'sortof' reflection of that from my brain. I gave a sligh motion to the head and app button...and the 'me' is my personal handwriting that i put into photoshop scanned. <3 much love! #thelightbulbproject_technology

Week 21 BTS "Paper"

i used toilet paper and rips of paper to just play around until I found an art piece that was pleasing to my eye. It was a blast!

Week 21 - "Paper" 1/24/18

I hadn't come up with anything majorly conceptual for this next theme....it occurred to me today...that I should just go and play. I took some previous paper images and made what I will call...a fun, abstract use of paper. I used a toilet paper roll and pieces of my backdrop paper tears. This is the first REAL quiet moment I've had all day...and I wanted to just enjoy it - no matter where it went. <3 so....this is complete for me.... another week down...another inspiration! #thelightbulbproject_paper

BTS "Inside" - 1/17/18

I used a hammer, the torn edge of my paper backdrop, myself and the light beads are an LED light in my office.

Week 20 - "Inside" - 1/17/18

ok again, i allowed myself to have some fun...and really THINK as i was creating...where i wanted this to go! I'm not really a planner when it comes to most of my art....and I am inspired by those that DO plan...but God, i love jumping in the river of creativity...and just going with the flow a lot! So tonite, as i wind down the evening...I created something for: #thelightbulbproject_inside And I've always felt since it is very personal to each of us - I wanted to convey what I sometimes think is INSIDE of me. I created an abstract "drill" as if to open my exterior...and the extraction that is happening is little light spheres. I almost went full "Cocoon" style with light pouring out - but I wanted to show the individuality that we are all given - to reach others with our love & creativity. We're all given a sphere of influence and community...so I made them little light sphere "pearls" that are being pulled outward. I must admit - I went back in time to a lens flare for the glow - but i don't mind it at all <3 Plus, this is only the 2nd time i've ever attempted a crack or opening. I'm happy with this. I even painted a bit! enjoy! Sorry so rambly! <3 much love, Jen

BTS: "Space" 1/8/18

Week 19 - "Space" - 1/8/18

ok yall............had some TRUE fun with this tonite!!! I had a few moments to really think...and I'm kinda giddy about what can happen when I have some QUIET and my brain gets moving. :D #thelightbulbproject_space i love space, like outer space. I love spacey movies. It feels so limitless you know? Beyond borders, beyond atmosphere...and I think the concepts stay true to me growing up watching Star Trek...to SEEK out...and connect with others. To me, this will always go beyond.... <3 I hope you enjoy this....I really had fun.... <3 much love to you all tonite. #conceptualart #thelightbulbproject #pinklightimages #startrekking #scifi #outerspace #space #creativity #fun

BTS "Passage" for the Lightbulb Project

1/8/18

Week 18 - "Passage"

ok, i finally had a few minutes to work on #thelightbulbproject_passage today....and my idea was with a prop of glass stones....and it merged into three openings that I could walk into....this is not a perfect concept or execution...but i'm loving where this idea is going...I wanted to post this now...and maybe re-develop later...I like the ideas of wide and narrow openings to passages...a very wide openings is very easy to pass through, where a narrow opening or passage is difficult and requires you to morph, shift, stoop, crawl and more...so can our lives, dreams and ideas flow through a narrow or wide passage. Anyways...always moving onward...especially today.... <3 much love! 1/8/18

Week 17 - "Currently"

#thelightbulbproject_currently I almost went artistic with this.....but honestly - this year is special for so many reasons. We brought another human into this world...someone who lights up the room with her smile...who is this AMAZING mesh of me and my husband. So currently, i'm figuring out this mom thing mixed with wife thing and mixed with artist thing. I love that i'm older so that i'm over the perfectionist supermom stuff that i know isn't reality. I know that I have to learn every day and so will she. This is my currently. And this was her letting me know she wanted to be with me and NOT have her photo taken lol! But those pants tho!!! <3 (they are huge).... <3 i present my present...Miracle. <3 almost 9 months old. love yall. happy new year!

BTS "Frozen" - the lightbulb project

Week 16 - "Frozen"

ok! i tried it...i'm happy with it...actually i'm quite taken with this abstract concept....I'm sure you can guess the prop I used...but funny that i re-remembered I had this from a past idea long ago...and I had bought a block to have on hand for any needs. Well, I NEEDED it :) I hope you enjoy this. This is how i truly look - no photoshop inside the block. :) I LOVE how it distorts and creeps me out! :D #thelightbulbproject_frozen Pink Light Images so happy to keep trying ideas!!!! have a great christmas/holiday season yall! <3 Love Jen