Update - Iara Di Stefano Inspired

Iara Di Stefano

Previously I looked at the idea of freezing some text and re-photographing the ice, This creates a really interesting effect and gives you the chance to use text but physically in the image. I wanted to try and freeze some text from on of the most recent books that inspired me. The book is called
  A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 

The book was a random find but I randomly got hold of it and really liked it. The book itself was intended as an autobiographical graphic story of a man who has a very bad drug and alcohol abuse issue and he wanted to get better. He signed up for a trip to a rehabilitation center and the story follows his daily life. In the book he talks about how drug and alcohol abuse is something you chose to do and that it is controlled by you and no-one else.

“Addiction is a decision. An individual wants something, whatever that something is, and makes a decision to get it. Once they have it, they make a decision to take it. If they take it too often, that process of decision making gets out of control, and if it gets far out of control, it becomes an addiction. At that point the decision is a difficult one to make, but it is still a decision. Do I or don't I. Am I going to take or am I not going to waste my life or am I going to say no and try and stay sober and be a decent person. It is a decision. 

This really sparked a thought with me as a concept the thought of alcoholism and drug abuse seems like something that sections you from society and that leads to you feeling misplaced in the world. I continued to read the book with a different mind set and had this photographer in mind. The way the photographer has used text in this way almost explains the book in a picture.

For the photograph I used this quote from the book and simply placed it in a tub in which I had previously frozen some water. Then placing the quote on top I  simply added more water and froze again. The results of my first try didn't come out exactly as I wanted but it has helped me improve my work if I was to repeat it again,

“Unlike most of the other crayons, Black has hardly been used. People probably avoid Black because it isn't considered a happy color [...] I, however, like Black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience [...] I like Black, goddamnit, and I am going to give it its due.” 
― James Frey