21/OCT/2021
On The Fourth Week:
Trying to Focus on One Thing >.<
What I was afraid of came true: Mr. Houman asked me why is my presentation jumped fragment into fragment. That was also my mistake that I did not recap what I did in the last three weeks, but presented my series of experiments that I did. I am still not deciding what my focus is, I am also struggling to keep my eyes at only one object. Too many things to explore. Too much possibility. I feel so stupid in the same time.
I know what my intention is, I know what I want to say, but I am still not sure HOW to deliver the message through my project yet.
I am still not finding something that connects the people who walk fast in the liminal space and decaying objects such as apple. The only thing that crossed my mind is only what grows from decaying spaces: lichen, moss, wild plants. But I am not sure how to interpret the message and translated them into visual project. In the class, we took notes and feedbacks and I thought about trying to push the ‘What Happened in The Liminal Space’ video on second week further.
What’s Working
- Overlapping videos in different times
- the snail and apple video is interesting and effective
- the metaphore between apple and myself – apple is growing roots in the neighbourhood – look for deeper meaning
What’s Not Working
- Following people, why don’t you talk to them?
- moving images (I do not know, no comment about this one 🙁 )
- asking people online to send the picture of lichen they found — how does it relate to my project?
The Feedbacks
(note written by Charlotte, thanks!)
- Why the following people?
- Lots of different ideas together – is it clear what you are looking at? The path of your thinking through these experiments is not totally clear always.
- Trying to find meaning in small things, gradually noticing everything through different experiments.
- The aspect of using time is really interesting, the snail, the apple and the time-lapse video. Video is very effective at showing different moments throughout day, could you push this further? Could do separate morning and evening videos to overlap and see the differences. Could do every hour and layer videos to see differences.
- Your key messages are time, why are people rushing, paying attention to small details. Need to be more explicit in showing these as the key themes, at the moment the website process seems a bit random with experiments skipping to the next without communicating your process clearly enough.
- Really like the parallel between the apple and yourself – apple is growing roots in the neighbourhood too – seeing deeper meaning in this.
- Moss/lichen is another interesting experiment as it shows the history of the neighbourhood, and the passing of time. Interesting seeing the different lichen around the world but how does it relate to your street and your project?
- Comparing one day, or time to another might be a helpful experiment. Gather information at a certain time and comparing with later that day or the next day. Asking people where they are going and making up a picture.
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Today, 24/OCT/2021
I tried to crop the image of the rotten apple in the final week, and also cropped the lichen image and paste them into the apple. It represents the threshold between decaying and growing. It connects to the liminal space of people on the Hermitage road: going from a place to another place.
I also got some ideas, mostly I want to get involved with the neighbourhood, interact with them, but still afraid but here are few ideas:
- making photographs of people on the pavement, cropped them individually, and make them printed on tracing paper to make the shade effect like the video on the second week but in another medium to preserve its ‘still’ness.
- making a series of digital imaging photo: mixing the lichen and decaying objects: apple, bread, drinks, etc. I think this would be interesting.
- sit on the pavement and give a simple drawing of people who wants to slow down and having a chat with me, will upload the picture on my blog so they can download them and also view other people’s portrait and diverse stories about where are they going (very challenging but I am really curious to try)
- making a parody of slippery sign that written “Caution! ….’ continued with some funny texts, might be a message to make people smile, or a message to make people slow down, and put them along the pavements (I can not stop my self off of taking everything in a comical way)
I reworked the video into better resolution and concept.