Jonas Shepherd - Project 1 - Final

A Change In Perspective

Jonas Shepherd

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

Auguries Of Innocence William Blake

Out of 210 degrees of vision, we can only focus on 0.95% at a time.

That is roughly the equivalent of a 2 pence coin

It takes an average of 40 years for a tree to grow to full maturity and a single leaf produces 120ml of oxygen per day

Fungi make up a third of the entire biomass on earth, and were essential to the beginning of all life of Earth

Afterword Jonas Shepherd

I’ve learnt that perspective is the most powerful psychological tool that effects every single aspect of life. Of course, I knew this before, but it wasn’t until doing this project and having to handle a host of new emotions that I truly understood it.

In life I believe that there is beauty all around us, all the time. As children we see it, although don’t understand it or appreciate it to it’s fullest. But it is for that reason, that we as teenagers and adults all seem to collectively miss our “childhood innocence”. However, it is not that as we have grown up, the world has become worse and worse, losing its beauty and dying (something I believed for a long time – no thanks to the state of the world during that time); it is instead that as we grow our perspectives change. Be that consciously or subconsciously from influences such as responsibilities, stresses, and work. As we grow, we speed up and thus lose the time and ability to slow down and stop, to be present in what we are seeing and appreciate it for what it is, what it has been, and what it could yet be.

In this presentation of my work, I aim to show you that these quiet, overlooked beauties are still in the world. But not by showing you over edited and modernly beautified images that warp all sense of reality and expectations for what is possible. Instead, I have aimed to capture moments in which I found the quiet beauty and show you both how the scene realistically looked alongside what I saw in it – the beauty more clearly visually represented, images within images.

All that changes is how you look at it. In the hopes that you can realise as I have, that, in order to see wonder in the world, all you must do, is look.