Edinburghfakename
Visualising the not
This piece is a final realisation of weeks of experimentation (that was finalised during lockdown).
I looked at the emotions, fear, disgust and happy and attempted to represent them. However, the representations are originally not of my own making but were derived from 9 people and their answers to a series of questions that I constructed. This set of interviews, my primary research, became the catalyst to my work.
I voluntarily acted as the instrument of representation and possessed these ideas of what fear, disgust and happy mean to the people I interviewed, thus translating something new.
Would my original interviewees be able to recognise and relate to my representations of these emotions? Would an unbiased audience member be able to connect these emotions with the visuals?
It’s really a conversation and experimentation of how connected we really are when given something universal such as emotions and asked what do you relate this to? What do you see? Is it the same as the next person or something completely different?
The conversation could then travel onto why? Why does one person see something and someone else visualises something different? Answers could be social or biological, but could we truly know?
Inspiration from Wood and Harrison.
Visualising the not
This piece is a final realisation of weeks of experimentation (that was finalised during lockdown).
I looked at the emotions, fear, disgust and happy and attempted to represent them. However, the representations are originally not of my own making but were derived from 9 people and their answers to a series of questions that I constructed. This set of interviews, my primary research, became the catalyst to my work.
I voluntarily acted as the instrument of representation and possessed these ideas of what fear, disgust and happy mean to the people I interviewed, thus translating something new.
Would my original interviewees be able to recognise and relate to my representations of these emotions? Would an unbiased audience member be able to connect these emotions with the visuals?
It’s really a conversation and experimentation of how connected we really are when given something universal such as emotions and asked what do you relate this to? What do you see? Is it the same as the next person or something completely different?
The conversation could then travel onto why? Why does one person see something and someone else visualises something different? Answers could be social or biological, but could we truly know?
Inspiration from Wood and Harrison.