I work as a part-time student assistant at the ADM library, so I am quite familiar with its layout and fixtures. Most people who visit the library for its study tables and printing services. Only a handful use the library for its resources, be it books or the cinema upstairs.

What I find interesting to explore:

1. That some books sit on the shelves forever, where others are always picked out and thus experience wear and tear. That some books have to be taken special care of. And others, we have restricted access to. It is a society.
2. The arrangement of every single book pertains to its call number, the immense amount of detail and thus work of a librarian that goes unappreciated by a careless library patron. It’s just a cell in a body.
3. How the massive windows show a big block of grass instead of a picturesque view whilst books show worlds beyond.  It’s a portal.

*italics = idea for physical representation

Whilst I remain open-minded to more ideas for exploration, I would like to critique my own choices for now. No.2 will probably encounter a problem with the necessity of installing it in the library’s space. It seems like it could be independent from the library itself. No.2 may be too abstract for the viewer to relate to. It also suggests a very time-consuming detailed work that has to be made, although that’s not too much of an issue with me. No.3 is cliche, but it will be attractive and more relatable to the audience so it will naturally be more well-liked.

I’m very new to the idea of making an installation although I have been to several exhibitions featuring very good installations. In this sense, I hope to transfer a bit of my aesthetic habits to feel more comfortable in this new area of work, rather than trying something too ambitious.

Here are some interesting installations I might consider for my work:

I do not think I can make an actual hologram in this stage without being exorbitant, so I might consider making something that suggests the nature of a hologram rather than an actual projection.

And if I did want to make a projection, I found a DIY video on it which I will link below. However, I would need a much larger screen to create this projection . . .

To be honest, I am very interested in quick and clean communication. Although a big composition is very charming to the artist, it does not always charm the viewer. After all, only a person versed in the skills will be able to fully understand the complexity of the required skill set in a work. As I was saying, I hope to communicate my idea more effectively in something very clear in denotation and maybe 30% connotative. Most of my work is highly connotative, and I would like to take a step back and explore something different in this sense.

As for where I would like to explore my work at, it will depend entirely on what I choose to make. I don’t think it is good to limit myself to a location in the early stages of my work. That being said, I can roughly imagine them to interact with the windows (at the book zone of the library) for the ‘portal’, the shelves with their backs to the walls for the ‘portal’ or ‘society’ or ‘cell of a body’, or simply a corner of the library for the ‘portal’ or ‘cell of a body’.