Aim:

From last task – How do colors differ a subject’s original emotion/ meanings?

Extend to this task – There are so many things that are not used in the way it was designed to be, there are places or subjects that have so many characteristics which different people have a different interpretation of them. What I will do is to highlight the other characteristics of a subject or a location.This will challenge the idea that ‘everything must have a meaning to it’.

Plan:

1. List all the locations that I will be shooting
2. Do test shooting to decide whether use cellophane paper or not
3. walk into the location, write down what I feel when I first walk into the location or first see the subject
4. write down what is the opposite meaning/emotion to the subject/location
5. start filming!

Ingredients: 

• Tripod
• Camera to film
• cellophane paper?
• a model

Class discussion: 

• Rober Crona’s ‘interstitial moment’ has prompted me to think about what my project what to focus on, where I want to draw my audience’s attention to? I didn’t use any sound or music in any experiments for the last task because I think music might take the focal point and create other feelings to the video.
• At the end of Cuellar Brown’s work, where the part of the video is being played there was a quote appeared on the sky background which I have found so impressive. It’s not about anything that relates to what I will be doing for my final project, but I find it’s true that even there are all those layers of sounds and images but depends on each audience’s perspective or experience they will hear and see a different version of the video.

Inspiration: 

Through research for this task and the photographers I used to know, I have listed out all my inspirations or the photographers that I considered to be similar to what I want to do. Firstly, is Tuca Tombolini who shoot a series of the desert which is completely different to what we used to think of a desert. A desert is somewhere that no one is able to live there with no water and growing, under his camera all these barren desserts seemed like a candyfloss, sweet and soft.

Tuca Tombolini

Richard Mosse

I have been to his exhibition in NGV around two years ago, that was the first time I have encountered with his work, before I knew how did he create this series I was shocked already by the power of colours. Instead of having bits of pink in this series, I really like how he has turned everything into pink not red. This series was filmed and photographed in Africa where there was a war going on when he went for filming. When people talk about a war or fighting, bloody red we emerge in our head for sure. I believe his work has the closest idea to my final project concept because pink is such a girly, playful and a fantasy colour. No one would think of using bubblegum pink to describe the war, but he did, in an ironic way.

 “If you’re trying to make people feel something if you’re able to make it beautiful, then they’ll sit up and listen. And often if you make something that’s derived from human suffering or war, if you represent that with beauty (and sometimes it is beautiful) that creates an ethical problem in the viewer’s mind. Then they can be confused and angry and disoriented, and this is great because you’ve got them to actually think about the act of perception, and how this imagery is produced and consumed.”

______Mosse Richard

 

James Turrell

This is an artist who works with colour, lines, and lightings, Mia suggested me to look at because I was considering whether I should use colourful lighting matching the background colour.