After making my moving collages I wanted to try something else, I wanted to take it to the next step and use moving image to play around with the idea of a moving collage. I decided to take a look at some Artists that use film.
Tony Oursler is an American multimedia and installation artist.
I really liked his work, I love the first two and the use of 3D mapping for the projections. But the last one I thought was really brilliant.
His work stands out to me because it combines scultpor and film, it also has a lot of references to pop art and kitsch, which is the German word for trash. It is used to describe things that are in poor taste, cheap or tacky but appreciated in an ironic way.
Jean Painlevé was a photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. I love the colours in this, I think it is so beautiful. I also like that it is a bit abstracted and you when you watch it you are just enjoying the visuals not questioning what it should be.
Joan Jonas is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art who is one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s
This stood out to me very much because I felt it was exactly what I though of when i heard moving collage.
I wanted to focus on my own work, keeping in mind the idea of home, I wanted to think about how the viewer would feel when looking at the work, I decided I am going to make something that resembled how i feel when I am home, or the idea of home.
A relaxing place where you Stand still away from all the movement in the world.
I thought about the idea of movement, how this whole project started because I felt like I was constantly moving and not feeling home anywhere. I wanted to think about how home is viewed, things are not solid, they are distorted and not clear, home is a feeling so how can I capture that?
It is ever changing and constantly moving location. It is a series off still movement.
I started by taking videos around my home, of things in motion. My walk around town, to and from home swell as plants, water and grass ...things that generally make me feel more at ease.
I then started editing them together in class, I wanted to create something that has motion but is also relaxing. So I created moving boxes of movement....
I then started experimenting with music, I found royalty free music online and started with that to see how sound could enhance it....
I felt like the sound added emotion that I didn't want. I thought the imagery was strong enough that it didn't need sound and I was worried people would have a different feeling in the installation when viewing it.I then wanted to think a bit about colour as I was saying before, I had worked more on the cooler scale and wanted to see what would happen if I Made something more vibrant... so I started playing around.
I really liked using blues, as I had in the ones before, more muted blues I felt was very relaxing and I liked how it made me feel when watching it.
Then imagery, I decided to make a mind map of all the ideas I have for the imagery as a concept of home...
I then thought about these ideas and started taking videos of the imagery I wanted to add. I added footage of my bed, my door, my friends and lights from my window. I tried to shape the boxes and think more about composition.
I started playing around with how it would project it. ( I played around with projections in general on my Instagram, projecting onto objects and my face).
I tried projecting it out on both a black and white surface I added the two videos onto one so I could upload less to youtube.
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