our first workshop for this project was about how you read an image changes your perspective, known as Rashomon effect. i really enjoyed this workshop because i was able to draw the scenes that were on the print-outs, and then play with the words and tell stories. doing the drawings rather than using the print-outs helps my brain turn on and playing with the colours changes the mood of the scenes, i think it would be fun to see how the words relate to the sketches differently when a different colour palette is used.
here are some examples of the stories i created. my favourites are the cowboy scene with the word bullet, and the 'banshees of Inisherin' scenes with the words, occupy abundant silence. i like that 'bullet' in between the two pictures can suggest that it was a bullet that broke the pair apart, or that a bullet travelling from the first shot towards the woman in the second. with the banshees of Inisherin one, i picked a word for each frame that i thought reflected the characters (i haven't watched the film so my opinion was based off of the shots we had) and i think it worked well in theory, but id like to watch it and see if these words mean anything to the characters, and maybe try the scenes with new words once i understand the context!
i really enjoyed our trip to brackenhurst, i drove my friends there so it was like giving them a grand tour of the posh side of mansfield. the exersise we did drawing luke's car was fun i like doing timed sketches they always end up being my favourite drawings. i liked all the odd prompts we were given i enjoy imagining what sounds would look like if we could see them and the sounds of a car are scratchy and loud and grumbly which are the best to draw. i love doing drawing activities like this, its the talking/ evaluating ones that make me want to cry.
as part of ways of seeing, i wanted to include some fun things i see people like what colours people are! i only had a limited number of colours so i couldn't draw everyone accurately in the afternoon at brackenhurst, but i was able to do some detailed ones at home with all my pencils. i wished i'd been able to spend more time on this idea, especially because it was such an open project, but tragically it's been the most hectic three weeks of my life so hopefully i can come back to this and explore it more!!
this picture is a mixture of different workshops but everything but the brown was from our character wrokshop where we brought in objects personal to us and used them to investigate how we perceived people/ the unknown. i managed to guess the objects owner CORRECTLY which i was very surprised by, which proves to an extent that your brain knows more than you think it knows, and it is already creating a picture of someone based on your surroundings before you even know you're thinking. i found this workshop interesting and it opened my mind up to how easy it is to built a character with personality from objects on inspiration. the brown pastel is from giving our artwork to someone else to add too however they wanted, i found this fun as i'm never too attached to my work unless its at a really developed stage, so this was more exciting than nerve-wracking.
this workshop was COOL i was excited about possibly having our work in the contemporary but i do appreciate that we had to have a reason to try hard, because this made the afternoon more of a shock. ive been really interested in learning about the limitations and usages of AI, especially with doing creative coding as my optional module. if i ever wanted to explore collage i would look into using AI to supply some resources, but obviously there are limits to what AI can create and the pictures it produces can be biased, for example, it often defines 'beauty' in the western image (thin, white, young). the workshop brought up the question of whether its okay to lie if its to prove a point and i still don't know i think is MASSIVELY depends on the context.