This week we have been discussing ideas for Signal and crafting ideas on what and how we are going to present.

My aim for this project is to cause a reaction within the audience.

With our ongoing theme specific to site I had begun brainstorming on landscapes. While looking into the surrounding of signal itself I begun to consider contrasting its city landscape with something like a country landscape and creating a conflicting environment to where I will be displaying it. To create more depth to this idea I was considering going form landscape to macro and focusing on the smaller parts within such as the textures within the landscape such as grass.

I felt that although this was a great idea it didn’t achieve what I wanted as much as I had hoped. I felt that I could create a more reactive and evoking work.

Still holding onto my theme of landscape-to-macro I decided to shift my focus to the body and consider the body as my landscape that I would explore on a macro level.

The idea behind the body is that it creates a sense of vulnerability with exposure. The fact that Signal is located in a public space means that whatever is displayed will be seen by people passing by. Bare skin will cause people look and to look again, as that much exposure is not apart of the everyday public space. I want to explore the idea of this vulnerability that comes with exposure and the feeling of voyeurism that the public feels when exposed to this context. Placing something as intimate as bare skin in a very public space challenges the notion of private and public places. It delves deeper into the world of place rather than non place and considers both the public and private spaces. It explores space in terms of the body itself and the space that it is displayed in (Signal). Signal is a public space and the body/skin is a private place, by showcasing the private in the public it challenges the parameters of the public and private as well as opening the notion that exposure creates vulnerability.