Calligramme (Letter to future self)

 


Artist Statement:

    Today, on January 30th, 2024, I created my first calligram, focusing on design and shapes to format specific text as a film camera. I could first trace my film camera using a basic design with the pen tool in Illustrator. I ensured each section of the film camera had its own outlined shape so that I could manipulate the shapes and turn them into my text. From then on, I used countless features to ensure that the camera had depth and that the overall art piece could have been more varied and exciting. I used the Type, Type on Path, and Area Type tools. I also added a little bit of effects and distortion. Such as distorting my first and last name as the circle in the middle of both the film reels or adding a more highlighted/bolded outside to the main body of the camera to add this effect that it looks like a film camera itself and not just a jumble of words smooshed together. 

    My inspiration for using a film camera comes from my dream. While writing in my Calligram Letter, I discussed this dream I've had for a while now. A dream that may be hard but not impossible. My dream is to one day become a part of cinema. May that be an actor, director, or producer. I don't know where this journey will take me, but it starts now at the University of Tampa, where I'm currently studying film to one day become a figure in the film business. 





Letter:    

Dear Andrew J Dimino,

As I'm writing this, I am in the second semester of my freshman year of college at UT. As of right now, I love it, taking advantage of the time I have before I become an Adult. As you read this, I'm sure we're getting up in age. Looking back at this in twenty years, when I'll be about thirty-eight to thirty-nine years old, I'm hoping that I'd be married by now with kids on the way, or I may have kids already. Of course, as I'm writing this, I don't know the answer yet. Either way, I want this letter to be something more, not something to look back at and be filled with sadness that you are now in the workforce, working till you are retired in the coming years, or that you are an adult and can no longer be a kid anymore. I know right now, as I'm writing this, it's scary to think about that. I keep looking back at the fun I had in high school every day, not knowing that in just twenty years at this moment, I'll be thinking about my own family and my own mortgage to deal with. I don't know where my life brought me to this point, reading this in the future, but I know now that I have a goal that's been the same for about two years: to be in the film business one way or another. I am not saying that I'd be disappointed in us if I looked back at this when Im older and see that I'd taken a completely different career path, but I'd be more confused. I know that my love for film and cinema won't leave me in my adult years, nor will my love for the Yankees and my frustration with them failing every year. But this love, I have to be in the film business in any way possible, it's hard right now in my life to see myself change this career path. Either way, I know I've found myself in any career, whether in the movies or not. But I'm determined to make my dream of working on an Oscar-worthy film come true. The dream of standing by my colleagues on the stage as we give our speech for winning the best picture of the year is what is pushing me right now down this road to follow my dream. I know truthfully that I've found my way into this business either as a director, producer, actor, editor, or anything that works on a movie or show. As long as it makes me as happy as I am right now watching these films on the big screen, talking about it for hours and hours is what matters most to me. I know either way, I've found my way in life, no matter what, I'll never be disappointed in what will become of me in the future.


Sincerely,

Your younger self 




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