On Monday, we had a workshop with Anna in the Capture Studio that was meant to re-emphasize the techniques and importance of documenting our work, which has an increasing importance for the portfolio module/professional development. I have always shied away from cameras because focusing my eyes/images in relation to the camera screen has been a problem for me in the past.
However, this time, all of the camera terms finally clicked, or maybe started to.
So, I decided to apply this on Tuesday evening by booking into the Capture Studio in order to retake photos of my installation for Navigators and one of my pieces for Manifesto, and taking good pictures gave an entirely new life to the pieces.
With Navigators, my final installation was exciting to experience in person, but the images of it that I had hastily taken on my phone did little to recreate the experience.
Using the capture studio allowed me to explore an entirely different dimension of the Navigators installation. One the installation couldn’t be the same as it was before–I couldn’t exactly remember where I put everything, and that was a component of the point. No matter how many times vendors set up and take down their market stalls in the market, slight variation is certain. Also, putting the installation up in a spot where I could play with lighting allowed me to visualize shadows that had not been apparent in the installation in my base room. I originally liked the idea of taking this place, Borough Market, rolling it up, and being able to install it anywhere, but it is most visually appealing when it is by itself. It creates its own space rather than adding to a preexisting one.
In addition, I decided to document the ‘installation’ of my screen protectors from my manifesto project.
This installation gave these pieces a new life as well. The screen protectors are meant to protect the user from their own screen–and when the object exists as just an image, it doesn’t have the same effect.
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