PART 3

Refining

Important part of final idea develop

Let’s do a quick summary

I began with any movements, tried too hard, simplified it back to my daily movements, realised that communication is the movement I wanted to explore.

Interactions and responses became the centre of my focus. I used old and new technologies to document responses to selfie oppurtunities.

Realised that I wanted work to have a connecting quality

Set up game activities that gave people a chance to record ideas through drawing.

Felt like it was too silly and needed to be refined to an idea that can be presented in the classroom space.

I liked the idea of one piece of paper with a collection of people’s ideas to reflect a larger image of people who responded.

Tried to focus on how I can get the class to interact and have a drawn element that can connect people

Came up with the idea of asking questions to create a network of participants

The reoccurring theme is ideas pushed by this “rhizome” idea and a fetish of mine is line works so I have been trying to incorporate line.

the terms "rhizome" and "rhizomatic" describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation.

What I have steered towards.

Jessie had this idea that there could be a massive pencil that would take every person in the classto pick it up to draw a line.. I wish I thought of that myself and a lot earlier – it’s a cool idea!

An instruction piece

A movement

I had a brain wave the other night as I was thinking away from trying to create a line, because clearly this just wasn’t sitting well for me.  So I was thinking of abstract ways of interaction. I began thinking of staging ideas that already exist but putting them into the context of people. The idea is sourced from the colour wheel.

The idea is to take some concepts that humans use in life to order and group things together to create connections so that comparison/analysis can be made.

Currently in the process of thinking of ordering systems

The Colour Wheel 

Instruction.

Form a Line in height order

Form a circle so that the shortest and tallest person is standing by each other’s side

The person standing directly opposite you is your complimentary height

Colour relativity

A performance analogy

An allegory

A reflection

 

Complementary colors are any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green. In the illustration above, there are several variations of yellow-green in the leaves and several variations of red-purple in the orchid. These opposing colors create maximum contrast and maximum stability.

I like this. It is about people, it is an interaction, it instructs, communicates, but it draws on much of my earlier thinking for this assignment. Why we move the way that we do. This end point comes full circle. Physically so but it wonders why we move the way that we do.  It is understood that part of human nature is ordering and categorising to understand the world around us. We need to. One of the ways that we understand colour interactions is by creating a chart that allows us to read the primary, secondary, tertiary and complementary colours.

I feel that I have always had a strong connection with the use of colour. I love it. This instruction piece is a reflection of what is important to me – colour and connection.

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