Photos 12 - Wides
- Henry Whiteley
- Nov 23, 2024
- 1 min read
The WCCB is decrepit high school far from the world of BYU’s main campus. That said, choosing to exile the visual arts students was a wise move; if anyone can appreciate the odd, it’s us. There is something tantalizingly peculiar about this building. I find myself constantly appreciating this bland building being stretched into a place of abundant creativity. It’s flat, predictable, and weirdly wonderful.
Inside this building there are a few treasures; one of which is the prop shop. I got my first glance in this week. Rows of all kinds of potential objects a performer may need to transform their world. The possibilities are endless. However, it is all being held in its temporary housing of a place kids used to live out the last years of their childhood sports fantasies.
Just across the wall is a smaller practice basketball court. There, a stop motion animation, a portrait, and a fog test are going on. Full of photo equipment, this makeshift studio is used to birth new photographers. However beautiful ones photograph, the lines of the basketball court remind you that this once was a place of dodgeball and gym shorts.
Hey Henry, Exile really is a great word for BYU placing us down here so far from main campus. I look at it as West Campus is the Wild West of BYU where almost anything, maybe even anything, goes here. An example: the library I heard starts ticketing for even staying a minute past midnight in the library. You don't even have time to leave. But at West Campus, I've stayed in the editing bay until 4 AM and 6 AM this semester editing.
The picture of the gym is my favorite because I feel the emotion, nostalgia and bitter sweet melancholy, that you might be intending to show. It actually reminds me of my childhood and teen years playing…