Today in our 3D class, we again experimented with and examined different aspects of space and how it's used and perceived. We spent an amount of time enclosed alone in large cardboard boxes. After my eyes adapted to the dark, I took to observing how light penetrated the space and gave the area a completely different appearance and created art it's self using reflections and the beams of light. I recorded the way reflections landed and where they landed, on a sheet of A2, stapled on the interior wall of my box. The light formed unique patterns across the sheet that changed each time i moved or rotated the box therefore changing the entry point, angle and intensity of the light penetrating the space.
We also recorded how the box made us feel, the affect it had on us in the moment and the thoughts that entered our minds whilst inside the box. Being enclosed in a space, removing the visual sense of the classroom, i found greatly enhanced the audio, noticing the sheer volume of students voices and the clarity of which specific noises can be heard with that added concentration. I spent time using my imagination to add a visual explination to what i could hear, when students were observing the use of space with plastic bags i could hear the rustle's and the coinciding laughter generated within the room, i used this to conjure up my own visual version of the events outside the box.
After some time we started looking at things differently, like how if someones inside a box and just their head pertrudes through the top it changes the way you precieve what your actually seeing, not knowing what could be hidden behind the box's walls, only having an expectation of what's normal and what fits the metaphoric boot. The possibilities are endless in ways to deceive perception and its also very simple. Today i did this on a mild scale, i combined two boxes vertically and stood on a chair with only my head visible neck upwards through the top giving the impression i was extremely tall, because it wasn't visible what was happening inside the box and how the space was being occupied, the first conclusion that comes to mind is that i am simply tall, because that's what you think you're seeing. Although you may have an idea of what's behind the box walls, you are in fact un-knowing of the chair's presence beneath my feet.
I enjoyed todays lesson and found it rather fun how being alone enclosed in a space creates a whole alternate world, letting the imagination run free and then the way you occupy the space psychologically manipulates spectators to adjust their perception.
After some time we started looking at things differently, like how if someones inside a box and just their head pertrudes through the top it changes the way you precieve what your actually seeing, not knowing what could be hidden behind the box's walls, only having an expectation of what's normal and what fits the metaphoric boot. The possibilities are endless in ways to deceive perception and its also very simple. Today i did this on a mild scale, i combined two boxes vertically and stood on a chair with only my head visible neck upwards through the top giving the impression i was extremely tall, because it wasn't visible what was happening inside the box and how the space was being occupied, the first conclusion that comes to mind is that i am simply tall, because that's what you think you're seeing. Although you may have an idea of what's behind the box walls, you are in fact un-knowing of the chair's presence beneath my feet.
I enjoyed todays lesson and found it rather fun how being alone enclosed in a space creates a whole alternate world, letting the imagination run free and then the way you occupy the space psychologically manipulates spectators to adjust their perception.
Me inside my box
My markings of the below reflection:
My original view of the reflection inside the box
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