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2d: Revised Ideas + Research on Techniques

REVISED IDEAS:

SHY + TALKING TO STRANGERS = DREADFULNESS

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN + MESSY ROOM WITH PILED HOMEWORK = LONG HOURS OF NETFLIX

PROCRASTINATION + ME DISTRACTED IN MY ROOM  = LATE SLEEPING TIMES

HUNGER/LIKES TO EAT + BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION = PREGNANT TUMMY

Are my ideas too predictable?

 

Techniques:

From my last post, I referenced Januz Miralles. I found that his artwork showed lots of emotion in a literal as well as metaphorical way. 

The swooping action of paint and the body language of the characters interacting with this made up element were the reason I felt much emotion of his paintings even there was so little play with colour. 

Along with Januz, I found similar artists that used this method. 

  1. Seung-Hwan Oh

An experimental photographer and microbiologist working in Seoul, South Korea. In his recent series, Impermanence, “…he cultivates fungus that he applies to his film. Through this process, the microorganisms slowly devour the film…the intended result is what appears through disappearance…”. Having worked on this series for over 3 years, Hwan Oh has been able to carefully control the fungus specimens as they eat away at the film, the images are at once magical and frightening, as the deep blues and striking silvers gnaw away and fracture human figures and faces. Within the decay appears a certain sense of majesty as art and science intersect to create some seriously stunning and psychedelic pieces.

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2. Drømsjel

Berlin based artist Pierre Schmidt aka Drømsjel’s mind or better yet, face altering work is almost like walking through a garden in the 1960s but instead you are the garden possibly going through a little psychedelic experience.

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3. Januz Miralles

(REFERENCE from my last post)

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The next few artists got me interested in the play with light.

I could shine a light from behind and allow these substances to show its beauty naturally. 

I thought that this could be incorporated in my digital design. 

It could emphasise the emotion in the graphic element of my design.

4. Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen

Sticking the bottle cap filled with water on the loud speaker, the artists managed to translate water into a 3 dimensional sculptural mass from sound.

 

5. Benjamin Muezzin

With this project I wanted to explore the notion of the third dimension, with the desire to try to get out of the usual frame of a flat screen. For this, my work mainly consisted in exploring and experimenting a different device for displaying images, trying to give animations volume in space. The resulting machine works with the rotation of two screens placed back to back, creating a three-dimensional animated sequence that can be seen at 360 degrees. Due to the persistence of vision, the shapes that appear on the screen turn into kinetic light sculptures.

 

6. Nicky Assman

SOLACE is a cinematic installation that investigates the mental process and physical activity of seeing. At regular intervals a handcrafted apparatus creates a soap film as a spatial intervention. Through precise lighting the inner movement of the soap film is revealed, showing a turbulent choreography of iridescent color and fluid motion. As gravity slowly gets a hold of the membrane the viewer can be fascinated with the phenomenon, until inevitably the fragile film bursts.

4d: Research + Idea

Thursday Afternoon

Andrew Johnson

Thursday Afternoon is a video work that explores the passage from Youth to Maturity where a dramatic and unsettling alteration is nevertheless, gradually and even almost invisibly realised.

Silent Sight

Zineb Sedira

In the artist’s work, women answer the gazes to which they are subjected by others. Sedira uses the voice-over in Silent Sight to talk about veiling and the impact of her mother’s veil on little Zineb, all the while looking at the spectator. This slow form of witness effectively creates a space of ‘intimate unrest’ between the onlooker and herself. Sedira reflects and returns the gaze.

 

50 words

The video shows us a series of isolated viewpoints that indirectly imply a sense of closeness, warmth & coziness. Accompanied by sounds of nature, which represent the calmness and unspoken joy, the video demonstrates selective observation of someone in love.

4d: Tests, Results, & Changes

Referencing from my last post, I have tested approach #1. I realised that my main problem is my shyness.

Since my focus is about documenting the different unique story that each couple has, I would have to overcome this shyness.

The results I got, I find, are stagnant. To me, I feel there is a barrier between me and the couple. That is not really what I want. Instead I would want the viewer to feel like they know the couple personally when they view the photos.

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However, it is not a problem if I continuously shoot the pictures with the same composition with only the couple and the environment varies.

The changes I can make are as follows:

  • Make it into a journalist work
  • Find out their back story before asking for a photo
  • Which I can also before approaching them, take long shot photos of them in love
  • Their body language must show that they are in love

If all else fails, I can take 200 long shot photos of couples in love in public