December 2011 Archives
Preparing for the TS tutorial, I've started cataloguing different connection types in their simplest form, starting with the small scale. Hopefully from here, I can start to show how these connections are used at different scales through examples and later testing.
Still very much WIP:
Had a great tute on Tuesday, where we talked about collecting of spaces, but also at different scales. Will revisit the recording for some more articulate notes about the conversation.
For now, I've started sketching out possible plates ideas so that the project is continually zooming in and out at different scales therefore looking at different collections (of objects, people, spaces).
Right now, the room image is looking similar to Elena's, but that'll change - this was just to quickly communicate an idea, focusing on one particular scale.
Also, not sure what the street view looking up would really say yet...
Part of the discussion during the review was about focusing not on the objects of a collection, but on the spaces, perhaps even collecting spaces themselves...
...which prompted Jill the Genius to think of "Crazy California Lady" who, in a way, collected spaces.
Watch the first 2 minutes or so of the Winchester Mystery House:
From the review, this section begins to bring together the means of collecting into one drawing - a visual explanation from the following excerpt of my previous statement:
"As important as the objects themselves, the process of collection as well as the spaces which contain it define our curated context. From the carefully ordered and encased to the quietly concealed, to the chaotic and over-saturated, the means of collecting alters our understanding or personal context and its relationship with the outside world."
Slowly finding my way to an actual argument/position, but not quite there yet. Also, terminology a bit convoluted. Need more/better words for collector, collection, etc.
As important as the objects themselves, the process of collection as well as the space of collection define our curated contexts. From the carefully ordered and encased (nostalgic), to the quietly concealed (recluse?), to the chaotic over-saturated (hoarder), the means of collecting can continually alter our understanding of personal context and its relationship with the outside world. The room, then, is the container for the collection of collections - transforming itself for each collector. The room highlights what is embedded, concealed and revealed, a process which renews and adds meaning for the object, the collection, and its container. It expands and contracts to not only accommodate the objects themselves, but to view each collection in isolation and as part of a collective (ie: itself an object through which the collector lives).
And just for kicks: The room is the collective of collectors and their collections! (Ha.)
