texture close-ups

materials

• camera

instructions

1. 1

   choose three surfaces you touch or walk past daily — a wall, a piece of clothing, a tree, a pavement.

2. 2

   photograph each surface from as close as your camera can focus. fill the entire frame with texture.

3. 3

   annotate: use stamps to mark patterns you notice — repetitions, cracks, gradients, irregularities.

4. 4

   show your captures to someone without context. ask them to guess what the surfaces are.

5. 5

   reflect: how does scale change what you see? what looks different up close vs. from a distance?

capture prompts