A significant part of this project is the pairing of fragments of text with the glove images. While preparing the last version of this project I tried out a few different approaches before settling on the execution below, text against a coloured block side-by-side with the image.
The idea behind the colour blocking was that by picking out the colour of the glove, I was making a visual connection between the memory lapse and the glove – to indicate via a kind of equivalence that one reminded me of the other.
A few people, including my tutor, felt that the colour didn’t add much, and may subtract from the overall ‘mood’ of the piece. I concur – it does look a bit ‘bright and breezy’, when I’m aiming for something more poignant, more elegiac.
However, I still want to create some kind of visual connection – to repeat something from the earlier post linked above:
Whilst I acknowledge that some viewers are still likely to read accompanying text as a ‘caption’ (and assume an anchoring purpose), I am interested in ways I can discourage a literal text reading and encourage the idea that the text is somehow an equivalent to the picture.
Me, 2018
At the moment I am working with two particular ideas (more may be added).
1. Shape and position matching
Continuing to work with the earlier idea that the text is on an adjacent panel, I envisaged something as simple as approximating the position, size and shape of the glove would help to make the visual connection:
This layout suits the book format used in Assignment 3 – though the last thing I wrote on presentation format is that I’d ideally prefer to end up showing this as an exhibition. So I need to bear in mind how to display this layout on walls.
2. Text in the image
Last time I showed a version of this to peers, another student (thanks Yiann!) suggested trying text within the image itself:
The advantage of this is more straightforward presentation, especially in an exhibition environment.
The downside is that some of the images might be difficult to place legible text on.
Next steps
- First of all, as usual now I’ve actually created and published something, I’ll live with it and think about it for a couple of days or so
- At the next student hangout I’d like some feedback from my study buddies
- If I think of additional methods of text pairing, I’ll try them out
I feel from my perspective that this personal project demonstrates visually that people in todays society are obviously so engrossed in their own thoughts that they are impaired in other areas…the walk and surroundings have triggered a need to forget or have time to think obviously making the walker forgetful… Juggling!!!! It made me think of a recent quote funnily enough, I can’t think where I’d seen it but it caught my attention ’my brain has too many tabs open’ so I do believe that the quotes were necessary in your thinking to demonstrate that point.
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Yes – this taps into an underlying sense I have about this work, that many of my ‘memory lapses’ (and I presume other people’s) are more lapses of attention than memory – it’s hard to prove but I get the feeling that our collective attention span and ability to focus is diminishing in the digital era. And I really like the “too many tabs open” analogy… funnily enough just this morning I was trying to think of new titles for this work and was mulling over some tech analogies such as “memory almost full” and “file not saved”… I might add “too many tabs open” to the shortlist.
Thanks!
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That’s great on the tech analogies I feel that is very much appropriate. Best wishes!
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Does the text pairing work as in your first example but reversed/mirror image? Creates a pair?
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Ooh now there’s an idea… interesting. Thanks!
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