I’m quite excited about this new direction. It enables me to explore larger ideas with out having as much concern about limited funds and finding specific locations for the works.
Obviously there are many new limitations that scale brings but these don’t require an abandoning of the idea rather a rework.
I’m quite pleased with how Deliberation was resolved, there were a few compromises as a desire to tidy up some wiring and poor unsoldering skills resulted in the cooking of my ultra sonic sensor. The replacement didn’t arrive in time so an infra red one took its place and has a much limited range, requiring the viewer to be much closer before affecting the work (not ideal but workable).
I liked how the Lego man added a sense of scale to the work. I am also pleased with the tie to Lego (which was the catalyst for this work) though in future I will explore creating my own people to get away from the Lego theme. Additionally adding the window head tied into previous explorations of self. and gives a little nod towards the influences of surrealists in my work.
After starting with a full palette of colours I dropped the colours back to just red and blue. Many discussions of colour and mood put red and blue at polar opposites, calm and excitement, and I thought conceptually this helped focus the idea of the battle of shifting moods regarding a choice and visually it kept a more consistent mood than the rainbow of colours gave in the full colour trial.
The user interaction is very simple and is unlikely to cause any jumping or waving. People may or may not discover the link between proximity and the work, its not important. Whether they do or not they will still only be given the single choice (depicted by one static colour) when “too” close as apposed to the full shifting range when stepping back.
On a technical level, I need to work on my modelling skills and maybe acquire some more appropriate tools, bit for this piece the standard of workman ship was adequate and I’m happy with the organic nature of the cabling.
I think this work stands up on it’s own, but can visualise it as part of a collection of similar works. Again very excited about this direction and looking forward exploring it further.