#024 Layouts - I choose you, 6!

I've drawn some exploration of the layout. I would take heed to Paul's suggestion that the arrangement should create focal points instead of a myriad that might look too disparate. So I will be moving away from (2) to (6). There's is a projection in (6) on the right wall which will focus on showing a virtual family photo-shoot and the fades into showing it getting done. It will be surrounded by the other virtual photos that have been taken earlier in frames. This is to compliment the old photos presented in in frames on the right wall.

Tryin out the layout of the frames on the left wall:

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

I've decided on number five, because it shows a focal point

The works displayed on the right and left will be joined by text in the middle. I found a suitable text I could use from a printed ppt slide I did when I was primary 4 title 'Our feelings about our family':

"There are three people in my family. They are my parents and me. My father is a businesssman. He always come home at four or five in the morning. My mother is a housewife. She wakes up and prepares breakfast for us. She seldom goes shopping beacuse she do not have the time. I am a pupil in Punggol Primary. I am lazy and tired sometimes and a naughty girl. But most thing I love is my whole family."


In comparsion, I've written a paragraph of my feelings about my family now:
"There are three people in my family, Dad, Mum and me. My Dad is a businessman stationed in China. It has been five months since we last saw him. It must be very hard on him all these years as the sole bread winner. My Mum is a lovable housemaker. She does not cook anymore so we usually have our meals together at the hawker centre just below our house. I am a student in National Institute of Education. I am graduating and I will be a teacher. The one thing I value most is my family."

#024 Layout of my work

I'm moving towards a 'mind-map' or 'timeline' kind of display. Why? Because I want to depict how the images are inter-connected through time. Visually, I also liked the how the mind-map I've created on the theme of 'shadow' is presented. So I'm looking at how such amalgation is presented...

Everytime I look at the images from the book 'Vitamin D', I would get some inspiration. Here is an example of how I've got inspired in creating the content page and layout theme of my works for my graduation book in NAFA.

This is one of my favourite books on drawings

Content page from one of my 3 my graduation seminar books done in 2008

An example page from one of my 3 my graduation seminar books done in 2008

Here's a series of pictures taken from John Clang's exhibtion, the way he presented his works resonates with me. I am inspired by how he'd arranged his works using a single bold black line representing in a timeline that is drawn across entire gallery space. And there secondary lines in red that branches out out the timeline displaying an array of the works done.

  

I am especially drawn to the arrangement of his works displayed in a corner (image above). I like the idea of displaying my images in the corner of a space. And it links to my concept of how time has made my dad and I really distance especially during the years 1998-2008. It was quite a tough period between us. One reason is because he's always busy and travelling around and another is that those are my teenage years and I was rather rebellious towards him. I just remembered the other day when I was in primary 6, some boy in class was making fun of me saying, "Didn't your Father teach you?" Then I replied, "I don't have a Father". What  an awful remark, our relationship was really tense then...

So by using a corner, the first half could display the collection of silhouttes or images taken when I was young. The ends of the second half could display the current phoot-shoots that I've taken with my dad. I could also have the cut-out messages of my dad's silhoutte displayed accordingly. Then my toy-torchlight could be placed on a shelf for audience to use.

#023 Looking at Fumiko Imano's Work - Another kind of photo manipulation

Yesterday while printing my films, I flipped through M1's Fringe festival 2012 and saw Fumiko's Imano's work. She's also interested in manipulating her images through the collage of herself as a pair of twin. From the article, "Imano began splicing photographs of herself, creating instant twins collaged in naive, playful dashion with scissors and glue. Through this process, she creates an intriguing dialogue by being both subject and object, reality and fiction, re-staging herself in a variety of environments from home settings to famous monuments... "

It's intriguing for me to see how someone has also been playing with the idea of manipulating images and reality. Imano's creates her twin self through cutting her photos and sticking 2 selves into one. I'm playing with the idea of capturing the 'lost' relationship due to distance and time of my dad and I through juxtaposing myself to an image of where he was and is.

piggy twins, tokyo 2007

vegetable garden twins, hitachi 2008

rupert smyth and twins, art director, belrin 2006

ready to dive, nasu 2009

charles anastase and twins, designer, tokyo 2009

Here's a link to a video of how she goes about doing her work: http://ashadedviewonfashion.free.fr/videos/chapels_fumiko.htm

#022 Personalized film for my toy projector

Freshly developed films :) I rushed down Sunshine Plaza after drama class at 5.30pm. Very nostalgic walking by NAFA. Tthe place has changed significantly. I was suprised to see the  once busy road in front of NAFA closed and a road was created at the foyer to the carpark. Change is constant.

...hands on time!

Here's a video clip on how my images (old photos) will look like when projected.



Comparing the original image and the the stills taken of the projected images (from phoot-shoot), the latter is not entirely clear. Would this effect still be ok? Can I still work this blurry effect?

  

 

 

#021 My new toy! Torchlight-Projector

I saw this toy while getting bubble tea one afternoon. I didn't purchase it immediately. Instead I got it when I found that my idea inspired from "Body Movies" was not working out sucessfully. Succintly, i'm intending to use this toy-torchligh-projector to project photos from the my prior 'photo-shoot' with my 2D dad.

Hence currently, I'm exploring how I could create the films? Dismantling, measuring, getting dimensions... last but not least trying out...

 

#020 My Family Portrait for the year 2011

PS: Dad, come back home soon (?)

#019 Photo-shoot with 'Dad'

My dad gave in to my pestering and shared some photos that he and his friends from China took together. So when I got hold of the photos from him, my mini photoshoot with the image of my dad begun... 

The juxtaposition of me and my dad's image looks like its done very easily, but its not. Its a one-girl Do-It-Yourself photo-shoot: adjusting the camera, putting it to self-timer, running over to the projection and snap, running back to check, not happy with my position or expression, adjust to suitable lightning effect, retakes and the process repeats and repeats at least 6 times for each image. 

Really thank God that I had the floodlights with me so that I could use to help adjust the exposure or not my face would be really dark as depicted below in the format of (1) Original image (2) Only Projection - under expose (3) Projection with floodlight.

Dad & I cultural experience

Dad & I at a Lake

Dad & I at the gates of Friendship

 Dad & I, Dad & Mum

Dad & I meal time