Emily Blincoe was born in Austin Texas on September 2, 1980. She seems to have owned three dogs so far, named Elenaor, Gus Gus, and Odie. She is a notable figure on Instagram and posts many of her photos on the site. Since 2013, she has been working with companies including Target, Chipotle, and Verizon via contract. Blincoe generally lives and works in her birth town and Nashville, Tennesse.
Much of Blinco's style, especially in her still life imagery, is specifically geared towards a very orderly placement of each object. She also has a tendency to heavily utilise color patterns in her arrangement photos. Her Still Lifes in particular tend to consist of large collections of small objects, often using items of a generally similar category like candies. Said arrangements maintain a balance of attention between the negative space and the objects themselves, since she does not place the objects in a way that causes them to make physical contact with each other. She also has some landscape photos which consist of nature scenes of her hometown and some notably well-done pictures of her dogs.
Much of Blincoe's non-arrangement photos are often of a lot of the smaller things in life, which she often considers a sort of focal point. She has taken quite a few photos of her dogs as well as friends and family, and some of these photos have a story to accompany them. I personally found the stories I read quite heartwarming, such as when she adopted Elenaor and how much her mother means to her. Meanwhile, her arrangements and still lifes, while they generally appeal to a sense of order, they do seem to have much of a message except for appreciation of color.
While I would not necessarily say that Emily really influenced my work, I'd say we both share a love of nature and prefer to include it in our artwork. I can also appreciate and respect her preference for order in her still lifes, and despite much of my own being a bit more chaotic in nature, I have not entirely avoided utilisation of orderly placement in my still lifes. However, I personally see some of her work (namely her arrangements) as slightly too complex for my taste. While her dedication to creating an interesting color palette in such arrangements is admirable, I admit the sheer amount of objects she often uses has prompted me to keep my images more on the side of simplistic.
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Compare and Contrast: Both of my recreations of Blincoe's works were done with an environment that was not necessarily adequate to recreate them. However, I still wanted to do the photos because of the fact that not only were they simple and straightforward, but they also exemplified Blincoe's philosophy of appreciating the smaller things in life (i.e. the moon and dogs). In my recreation of Happy Place, I could not find a field of yellow flowers and thus had to make due with a field of grass. I also used a photo of my uncle's dog, Rose, and used the raster mask method to make it appear as though she were poking her head out of the grass. Meanwhile, for the untitled photo, it was much harder to do given the limited window of time I had to take the initial photo. While I initially just wanted to take the photo and brighten up a circular area of it, I did not have a steady enough hand to make a complete circle and ultimately settled for the raster mask option in which I simply brightened up a copy of the image and brushed away a circle-shaped part of it so it would look like the celestial object which the subject of the photo is pointing at.
Ultimately, I chose these two photos because I think that together, they embody the idea that it is good to appreciate the small things in life, but it is not wrong to hope for something greater. Happy Place, with its general simplistic, feel-good look, has the elements of simple plants and a dog, both simple yet enjoyable things. The untitled work, meanwhile, is an example of how humans have been interested with the stars for much of our history as a species, such that astronomy was the first state-funded science in human history. Humans have hoped to understand the stars for thousands of years, perhaps tens of thousands. Thus, the untitled work is an image of our hope to potentially settle the stars and learn more about what could be beyond our water-covered rock of a planet.
Ultimately, I chose these two photos because I think that together, they embody the idea that it is good to appreciate the small things in life, but it is not wrong to hope for something greater. Happy Place, with its general simplistic, feel-good look, has the elements of simple plants and a dog, both simple yet enjoyable things. The untitled work, meanwhile, is an example of how humans have been interested with the stars for much of our history as a species, such that astronomy was the first state-funded science in human history. Humans have hoped to understand the stars for thousands of years, perhaps tens of thousands. Thus, the untitled work is an image of our hope to potentially settle the stars and learn more about what could be beyond our water-covered rock of a planet.