What I Did:
3 hours coming up with a plan for the connection of my faces
4 hours making the map of my history of central campus
2 hours taking pictures of the places I selected on the map
2 hours coming up with different ways to intervene in the select spots I chose
What I Accomplished/Encountered/Discovered:
I like this idea for the connection and I like how personal it will be. I am sure it will be more fun for me to create my faces when I know the exact emotions that I was feeling at the time and when it was an important time in my college career. When I talked to my professors and GSIs, they had good insight into how to improve the map I created. If I reduced the amount of spots to the only really emotional experiences that I have had, then I can focus more on each one and the emotions expressed will be more authentic and less general. So there are 7 spots on my map, in which I will intervene and really try to express my raw emotion for what happened to me in that location.
I took pictures of the sites and have thought a little bit about how I want to go about creating my emotions. I think this is a huge part in my project, however, that will either make or break my project depending on how much thought is put into each location. Even though I really do not want to get away from the illustrated faces that I have been making, I have come up with some different ways to intervene in the space, but nothing has really hit me and made me think that is the way I should go. I am thinking that over spring break I can have a lot of time to think more about this, and then these ideas will help me with my thesis paper.
Like I said, these past 2 weeks have been pretty crappy being sick, but hopefully I will get over this sickness soon and really get to work on my project. I really like where my project is heading at this point and I think I can finally see the finish line and what my project will manifest into.
What I Think I Should Do Next:
Over break, I will come up with more and different interventions that I could possibly use in my locations and finally come up with a solution to them. I will also write the second draft of my thesis paper, which is due when we get back.
Noelle,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see that you are feeling good about this direction and that it was possible to limit yourself to 7 sites.
I would encourage you to spend time over break (when it sounds like you are not in AA) to really think through the specifics of each event, working with very concrete language / keywords that will help you pinpoint what it is you want your viewer to understand emotionally. You should have words to guide your making that are very, very particular and get at the essence of your feeling.
Separate from keywords, the titles you will ultimately put on your map can be more indirect, words that together with the artwork, lead us to understand the whole.
Hope you are feeling better!
Hannah