Trhough workshops with Mario, I considered different ways to appraoch the installation and what materials and set up I’d like to explore individually before grouping up and collborating ideas.
My inital idea was to create a wall with different textures and collecting different pcoket watches, varieing in size and appearance, and finding a way to place these onto the wall. Once this was compelte, I was going to open each one so I was able to project my cave drawings and pictures of my late father to hopefully represent loosing someone through time.
Another Idea I had was to create a cave and to cover the entire thing with a large mapped vidoe slideshow of my late father and then in serate areas projecting my cave marking as stills. This felt a little too big to create and that there would be limitations on how visable the viduals would be seena s though it would be two projections layered but I was curiosu to see how I would comabt these challenges. Danglign the images from the cave fet like a good way to work around the visablity of the images but I was not define to any one idea I jsut knew I wanted to collaborate both my illsurations and phtography. The reasoning I wanted it to be a cave was to reconnect with my intial research of the ‘lsot’ caves that hae yet to be discovered.
My last idea was to create on location and map onto the building of flats that my late father lived in and project my cave paintings into each window starting from top to bottom with the still imge of my father on background of the building. I found this one to interest me as it was outside which meanrt I would have to naviagte natural lgihtening and rhe building held significatce in an odd way so being bale to incorpate this into my art would be fascianting.
All three of these ideas had their own challenges but we were advised to think bigger rather than confide to small ideas, as such I considered what interested me, rather than what was possible and realistic.
Once we were placed into groups, I then started to be more practical with my approach and a team member suggested a traffic light with different signs coming of the pole. I think in an odd telepthaic way everyone in the group felt a personal connection to the installation and we agreed this would work if we each had our own individual sign to perosnalise.
The reason I favoured the traffic light was because it felt oddly eerie to think about stopping and going in consideration to grief, how theres moments of calm and then instant choas like cars speeding past when you so desperately want to move forward. Another way i looked at it was the signs as a mean of directing you, that each sign represented a different choice or decision you could make when processing a loss.
In regards to the tower of Babel, it was an obvious structure that collaborated different voices that are all unique in their own accord. Opposite to how when everyone was split by language they seperate due to their differences and were no longer able to build their structure, we still build ours.
We agreed we wanted the installation to be central within the room and tall but not too high it would touch the roof adn that surroudning the structure would be a black curtain to allow for a isolated appearance.
As we only had two weeks to complete the entire isntallation, we began planning and creating very swiftly.
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