the constraints this week were interesting ones. we had to describe objects and elements form the perspective of plants and animals in our homes. for one, what if we don’t have any animals in our homes. i mean yes, there is my brother. by i don’t think that’s really what adrian was going for. luckily i have my beautiful (if not incredibly stupid) dog so i wasn’t completely lost on what things look like to dogs. the plant on the other hand…. how do they have a point of view.

but when i started to think about it, this was a really interesting constraint task. because it got me to start thinking not only about these living things in new ways but about the objects themselves in new ways. what do these items mean, not just to my dog but in relation to me and the world? his food bowl. yes, it’s just a silver metal thing that sits on the floor. but to him its a meal. its random delicious chicken on a friday night as a treat. it 6pm every night. it’s a reason to get off his bed. it’s his gateway to the family dining room. and thats just a metal bowl.

the elemental constraint, light, water or earth from the perspective of a plant got even deeper :O. because to us, these things are a given. we walk on the ground. it’s just there. the sun comes up, gives us light and warmth (well, just sometimes in here in Melbourne), water is everywhere. these are the things we come to expect in our life. we can just have them. but to a plant, these things are everything. light is energy, water is life, earth is food and a home. what if we were to take these things away from them. put a plant inside. remove it from water. pull it out of the ground. these things are important to the plants so they would look upon these elements with a lot more interest and importance compared to how we would look at them. at the involves filming them in a different way to how i normally would if i were just to film them regularly. lets hope i can actually capture these elements