Source to Self

The artist that struck me the most was Jennifer Scheslinger and her "Moon Series" photographs.  In the "Moon Series", I found it interesting on why she decided to take pictures of the moon at different cycles due to her pregnancy and how the birth cycle relates back to the moon cycles.  Another thing that struck me was her use of tonal range in reflecting the moon's brightness.  It looked like there was a beam of light shining through the photograph coming from each phase of the moon.  There was also a sense of emotion in her "Moon Series" photographs by the moon's position when the photograph was taken.  It looked like she had waited for the perfect moment to take the photograph at that certain position.  Her photographs looked peaceful because it reminds of the old nursery story Good Night Moonlight.  Her photographs brings me back to this relationship between music and art.  As a viewer, I could listen to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" while looking at these photographs and create a relationship between the two.  The tempo of this piece is very slow, which relates with the moon's stillness in the photographs.