Second 'penumbra' moodboard

Taking the feedback into account, I created a new moodboard. My first change was to use fewer beauty shots - this moodboard contains only one, if counting the chin, neck and shoulders at the top as a 'beauty' shot. I also stuck to a dark colour scheme; all the images are either black and white or at least muted, dull colours, as I felt that these represented shadow, darkness and mystery better. I made sure to include one of my own images - the downward lines of shadow and colour in the large picture to the left. I was lucky enough to wake up and see this beautiful light and darkness being cast on my ceiling this morning, and thought it showed various types of shadows and penumbra really well. I paid attention to the layout of my images, keeping gaps even in the grid, and placing images that I feel depict movement together around the bottom and right sides of the board. I added a short quote which I found quite powerful - 'To light a candle is to cast a shadow.' I felt that this created a sense of darkness and mystery; as if everything you do can have a negative side to it, and creating wonder and mystery about what lay in the shadows created. By adding this text, and also by including pictures where shadows seem blurred or distorted - even the dog's shadow is unnaturally lengthened - I feel I am pulling on emotions like mystery and fear of the unknown.

I am pleased with my second moodboard and feel I have taken the feedback I received and put it to good use. I understand that more imagination and inspiration can be created from photos that are not all beauty images - with beauty shots you run the risk of simply copying an image. 

I also found this quote, while researching for my moodboard, by Martin Luther King, Jr.: 

'Everything That We See is a Shadow Cast by That Which We Do Not See.'

This quote triggers thoughts about how everything is created, and by whom. It also evokes thoughts about family and ancestors, and how so much of life we really know little about - again, reinforcing this fear of the unknown. Most of all, to me, this quote speaks about gratitude - so much time and effort has gone into everything we see around us in order for these 'shadows' to be created; there is an importance in remembering and appreciating this. 

In terms of my work, I think this quote pulls further on the emotions of wonder and mystery, something I would like to incorporate through my work via use of shadow, darkness, body language and facial expressions.