Without order, you cannot have chaos. In the same way it is impossible to explain the meaning of order without also explaining chaos. Chaos can be many things; it could be state of confusion among people or objects. It is chaotic in itself to give a statement about what chaos really is due to the nature of it and how it is among other things. A state of order generally seems to be the way we like to have things in our current society, for example, the police work to bring order to our lives by preventing crime and where crime cannot be prevented by disciplining criminals. Everywhere you look there are posters, signs, billboards, instructions, all designed to bring order to something on our lives in one way or another. You could then ask the question as to whether all these things actually work...do they really bring order? It could be said that it is open to interpretation to any individual for them to say whether order and chaos actually exist or whether they are just the ways that one person or society as whole, want things to be. A way to explain this would be to say, if I have a pack of colouring pencils that are in no order, I could take out all the colours and arrange them in an order that I want them to go; all the greeny colours together, then all the reds, then the yellows, then the blues and finally the black and white. I could then hand this pack of coloured pencils to another individual who decides that the order in which i have arranged the pencils is chaotic so they might arrange them in a way that they perceive to be a better order for example, Reds, Oranges, Yellows, Greens, Blues, Purples, Black and then White.
This is Order and Chaos on a small scale. You could have Order among governments which could lead to conflict when another government or group of people doesn’t like that way that order has been brought about, because they may find that order chaotic. Situations such as this could lead to major conflict such as rioting and maybe even wars that bring chaos on a big scale all because there are differences in opinion on what order really is.
To conclude this statement I would say that order and chaos are completely in the eyes and minds of the interpreter. It would be chaotic of me to say it was anything different.
The idea behind this series of portraits is to do with order and chaos in society, I went out on the street photographing people from a range of different places on the 'social ladder'.
While photographing, i made decisions based entirely on the appearance of each subject as to where i thought they belonged on this 'social ladder' and where would their portraits fit as regards of social order when put alongside portraits of other individuals taken that day.
This lead me to think about how chaotic this process had become.
How can i put these images in an order based entirely on looks of the person in each photograph? and if i did, would they really deserve the place that i give them? or do they give the place to themselves by appearing the way they do?
If i am to put these images in any kinda of an order, then i must first begin to draw stereotypes based on the appearance of each individual. then, with these stereotypes in place, i could go about putting the individuals in an order.
The more i think about this, the more impossible the task becomes. Whos to say that the appearance of the person on that day might be a true reflection of what they are really like, but then again, whos to say that it might not? and would the stereotypes i give even be accurate?
Then thinking AGAIN, is personality and 'whats inside' really relevant when placing individuals in order as regards the social ladder?
come to think about it, i dont think it is.
...or is it?
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