Some of the works we have looked at in class have given me ideas for my own creations relating to project brief 2 “From here to there”. Stainless 42 Street by Adam Magyar was shot at high speed from inside a train then slowed down. Tokyo in Reverse by Simon Bouisson depicts a man walking towards a camera while the camera tracks backwards and the rest of the world appears to be running in slow motion and in reverse. These works got me thinking about how isolation and experimentation with movement can highlight specific elements in a vast and busy world. The GIFs by Erdal Inci got me thinking that I could create a piece that combines still photography and video footage and is played on a lop to create a continuous piece. It could be a collection of images of clouds and the sky and its various different shapes, forms, colours and motions. The sky is a place of “inbetween” when something is suspended without a specific location or place of being. Looking at everyones works within the home I noticed that majority of the pieces had something in common and that was their small scale. They captures minute and minuscule objects within the home and zoomed in on different angles, shapes and patterns to create abstract art forms. I would like to experiment with a larger scale as the project expands from the comforts and boundaries of the home to the wider world. I like the idea of capturing images from a hight and displaying a large scope of the surroundings.

In todays class we presented our work on my home in a slide show presentation. The pieces that stood out to me were the ones that had a consistent aesthetic. In particular I liked the works that consisted of pale, washed out and over exposed images or dark, contrasty and underexposed images. I really liked the works that experimented with light in different forms including shadows and reflections.Other interesting works were ones that captures the frustrations in every day life in a humorous and relatable way. E.g a door that doesn’t close, a suitcase that doesn’t unlock, jars on the top shelf in the cupboard that are hard to reach. I also sound it really interesting hearing about the architectural concept by On Sou Fujimoto that looks at the relationship between the human body and the structure of cities.It highlights the relationship between the 2 seemingly unrelated things such as the way that traffic flow is similar to the circulation of blood in our body or the way that buildings are composed to create space and energy and allot the city to breathe much like the functions of human lungs. In a way everything that has structure, flow and motion will have some sort of a circular system to it. E.g cogs in a clock, chains on a bike, the motor in a computer or engine in a car. “We raise blinds and lower shutters as we do eyelids, animating the house like a secondary body, ensconcing or rejecting light into our spaces.”Man made creations often subconsciously stem from our understanding of our own body. When juxtaposing sound with the images I want to be more experimental in the use of sound. In the future I would like to use editing programs to see the different effects ad moods I can create to accompany and compliment or juxtapose and contrast my images.