My Role: Photographer, Poet
Project: “Another Coffee Shop Story... Jessica Ficken” — a photo-essay

Comments: Represented above is the opening screen from my photo-essay project:
“Another Coffee Shop Story... Jessica Ficken.” This surrealistic photo-essay unravels an unusual coffee shop story. This coffee shop story is a photo-essay starring my friend Jessica Ficken. Most of my photos were shot through the mirror to capture the surrealistic nature of dreams. The photos are accompanied by poetry that I have written. These black-and-white photos were printed on glossy fiber-base photo paper for my independent class project.

II chose Jessica as my subject because I was intrigued by her melancholy beauty and minimalistic artistic aura. She was also very natural with the camera as I wished, no obvious poses. I wanted a face that would be expressive even when silent on a page... a face that whispered a thousand words, a face that reflected the loneliness and melancholy introspection of my soul at times. The photos were taken in Jessica’s house which I thought looked artistic with an animal skull hanging on the walls that looks like it could be from one of Georgia O’Keefe's paintings of animal skulls in the southwest. Some of these photos depict rainy moments and windows beaded with nature’s tears and misty with introspection.

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