I want my work to focus on the power and scale of the digital. I want it shown in a way that can be visually comprehensible. There will definitely be an emphasis on scale and perspective, something with an aerial shot, like in “The Powers Of Ten’ I want to play with the idea of ‘The Uncanny Sublime’ too, particularly in relation to the sensation of the scale of being human and exposing our temporality and size. 

My previous experiments have been quite collagey, so I’d like to keep that going into my final project with a bit more refinement. I want my project to focus on the idea of immeasurability and scale when it comes to technology as well as the time before us and beyond us that makes us feel nostalgia. I was recommended to look into Canadian filmaker and artist ‘Jon Rafman’ by the panel and I am so glad I did! his work is so fascinating and is very similar to the ‘aesthetic’ and feel I am leaning toward for my final work. I love the liminality he explores in his work. It is very ‘uncanny sublime-esque’.

I took a liking to ‘YOU, THE WORLD AND I (2010) by Jon Rafman’ in particular. It represents a visual I want to emulate in my own work, the abundance of zooming into pixilated landscapes, buildings, coastlines of the Adriatic all the while a unique anecdote unfolds.

Polly Pocket comes to mind when I think about ‘the sublime’ for example. The small, cosy nature of a little world inside a plastic ‘clam’ like heart shaped container always fascinated me as a young person- it makes your own ‘world’ seem huge and completely removed in a way. Similar to how one may feel from being on a plane, looking at the boundless ocean below and noticing the little white ripples that would be km’s long but to appear miniscule. Then juxtaposed with the feeling of being ‘on ground’ and out of that aerial view and perceptive, this idea also makes me intrigued by liminal spaces.

‘Whose Sphere’ is the name of my sculpture. I like cadence of the word ‘atmosphere’ in a sentence and feel that ‘Whose Sphere’ is a nice title for my work. These sketches below I drew when figuring out how I wanted my sculpture and ‘mini’ world to be brought to fruition.

These are the materials I bought to build the sculpture that will feature in the video and be on display at the exhibition alongside the video playing on TV 2. I managed to find the exact polly pocket clam I imagined on a rampant facebook marketplace search that came about one evening once I decided I wanted the toy to feature as the ‘little’ world on a small scale, sort of like the picnic goers in the Eame’s brothers ‘Powers of Ten’.

Dorsen, Annie. “The Sublime and the Digital Landscape.” Theater (New Haven, Conn.), vol. 48, no. 1, 2018, pp. 55–67, https://doi.org/10.1215/01610775-4250956Links to an external site..

Freer, Scott. “MAGRITTE: THE UNCANNY SUBLIME.” Literature & Theology, vol. 27, no. 3, 2013, pp. 330–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frs056Links to an external site..