On the weekend I took about 70 atmospheric pictures of my final model. These were some of the best.
From here, I cut paper frames to help me select a zoomed in shot of one of the photos that best represented the essence I have been exploring in my A2 drawing and model.
After exploring different angles and view points, I decide on a photograph that I thought best represented the threshold between dream and reality.
I chose this image because it represented the state between sleep and awake where our dreams merge with our reality the best. Focusing in on this point of view allows the image to highlight the string. This shows how the harsh lines of reality are often fuzzy in this state which the frayed string shows. The view also allows us to see the floating and suspension of the string creating the sense of reality being suspended in a dream world.
The suspended wire in the image shows the flowing feeling throughout the model, a feeling we experience within this threshold.
The shadows are very prominent and important in this photograph. I used the afternoon light cast through a window to create the soft shadows in the background and a gentle and calming ambience. I wanted to create shadow that didn’t necessarily make sense in relation to the actual model. By creating shadow that didn’t replicate the model, the photo is able to add to the narrative of how reality is not always as it seems when we are suspended between sleep and awake.
The shadows created by the string show the distortion of reality made by dreams. These shadows also remind me of Peter Pan, how Peter’s shadow runs away from him and is often not tethered to him. This story is very similar to the narrative of my project, how Wendy and her brothers are caught in a state where they don’t know what is a dream and what is reality.
The harsh horizontal shadow to the left of the image is distorted and blurred as it travels behind the model. The plastic sheet creates the distortion of the shadow, much like the film/screen we look through when experiencing the point between or dreams and the reality around us. When waking up, there is no definite point where our dreams end and reality begins and this causes them to, only for a moment, merge together into one experience.
Spatial Design by Ciara 