Object 1. The sweatshirt is my favorite sweatshirt. It was my mom’s and she wore it while she was pregnant with me. It feels like a piece of home.
Object 2. The white shirt is my dance team shirt from high school. I danced for 18 years and for all 4 years of high school I was on the dance team. The team helped me make some of my favorite memories.
Object 3. The pointe shoes also represent my love of dance. I keep these shoes hung up on my wardrobe so that I can always remember my roots.
Object 4. The photo of my grandpa is the first of 4 items I keep in the back of my phone. He passed away right before I went to college, and he was the reason I became an engineer and went to Lehigh in the first place.
Object 5. The next item in the back of my phone is a ticket stub to Ocean’s 8. It was not my favorite movie, but I enjoyed it and I went with my cousin. I also consider the summer we went to see it one of the greatest summers I have ever had and it is a great way to remember it.
Object 6. The third item in the back of my phone is a free mini golf game. The course is located at Ocean City, NJ where I have gone every year since I was born.
Object 7. The final item in the back of my is a fortune cookie that made me laugh. It says: “Your problem just got so much worse. Think, what have you done?” If I remember correctly, I got this fortune cookie at the meal I had after my grandma’s funeral, and I had accidentally gone into anaphylactic shock from eating a cookie with walnuts. I found the fortune very fitting.
I think you have great color coordination/ contrast but I think that the composition would be a lot stronger if you cropped it a lot tighter and overlapped the tee and the shoes over the sweatshirt or with other items.
I like the way you incorporated the smaller things by photographing them on the shirt, but think these smaller pieces could be better seen if the shirt was unfolded and acted as your background.
I love the overlapping of the smaller objects from biggest to smallest on the t-shirt. I think the gap between the t-shirt and ballet shoes are a little awkward though and maybe orienting them a different direction could’ve created less awkward space.