Multimedia: Space
"Installation Art" at Home.
Concentrates on environment and spatial concepts. Expands previous concerns with the object and personal space to envision space and the action within.
Challenged to incorporate myself into each installation to display the interactive nature.
Project 1: Depth of Field
"Spun Into Chaos" -- a reflection of the chaos felt during quarantine. Titled the frames for disorganization and added strips of paper to emphasize movement of the fan as if it were turned on. The fan being central to the theme. I placed myself in the project and wrapped some paper around me to display that I was also in disarray at this time of quarantine.
Project 2: Linear Exploration
Location: basement steps. They were never a place to hang out or spend an extended amount of time other than going up and down them, but in creating the installation, it 1.) made my family unable to get through and they kept opening the door to see what I was up to and 2.) became a place of interest. Used yarn to weave across the walls and steps--gave the illusion of flattening out the steps.
Project 3: Shape and Form
"Windows To My Life". Location: Bay Window which allowed for the contrast between day and night. Reused the paper strips from Project 1, but this time in an organized manner to show the contrast that one material provides and to reflect the grid structure of the bay window. My Polaroid pictures were used to act as smaller windows into my life. A positive and negative silhouette of myself sitting was added as a memory of myself. Once I sat on the bay window, I could be a reflection of my own silhouette. Rectangular prisms were added to jut out from the window to break into the 3D space.
Project 4: Negative Space
Clothes are usually stowed away or hung up and not a barrier to getting through a doorway. The space was altered to lose the function of what it was originally meant for. Folded shirts were stacked up in color order while a laundry basket balances on the top of the door as if freshly folded laundry simply fell into the doorway. The video is a soundscape to accompany the photos--sounds hint at the lifecycle of clothes, from being knitted, to being bought at a store, to being dumped in a landfill.
Project 5: Scale (Miniature)
Location: Bay Window. Used books and toy cars to create a miniature racetrack. Brought the outdoors in by using pine tree branches and brought the indoors outside by taking photos in a way where it looked like the window doesn't exist. Incorporated myself to act like a giant amidst these cars.
Project 6: Text as Art
Location: Staircase with a mirror on the opposite wall. Used the Bible verse James 1:23-24 because it explicitly states how someone looks in the mirror, but then forgets what they look like. This verse was perfect because it could split nicely into four lines which would make sense all together, but also in the two separate parts (denoted by the dark brown and lighter brown). The light brown text was mirrored, so that in order to read the full verse, one had to look in the mirror and do what the verse states.
Project 7: Passage of Time and space
"Take A Wrist" -- Moments of pain. Moments of frustration. Moments of peace. A constant cycle.
Take a risk.
Using a class project as an opportunity to visually represent pain that I've felt for quite some time. No matter how much I try to brush off the pain or how many times I take my brace off because I feel ashamed that I can't "perform" tasks and hobbies well with it on, the pain keeps on creeping it's way back to me. It comes with frustration, anger, doubt...
Time to cope, time to heal.
Take a rest.
All clips shot on my phone. Music from my piano freestyle session. Edited on Adobe Premiere.
Project 8: Room with a view
Location: Closet. Moved what is normally my studio into the smaller closet. The closet was by no means practical for sewing, but it expressed how I get immersed in my own creative bubble and could easily forget where I am and how much space I do/don't have. Increased interest because viewers could only see what side at a time and would have to interpret what is behind the closet doors.
