We started the week with some initial introductory drawings. Our aim was to investigate the threshold between sleep and awake in a 2D visual form. We were asked to create a series of blind and awake drawings. These blind drawings are drawings done within a few minutes with your eyes closed and the awake drawings with your eyes open. This slightly terrified me because I like to have control over what I am drawing and am a bit of a perfectionist. Although difficult at the beginning, this exercise allowed me to loosen up, have more of an open mind and gave me a new way to take creativity from within myself.
Bottom – Threshold between Open/Close (Awake Drawing)
Bottom – Threshold between Horizontal/Vertical (Awake Drawing)
I was pleasantly surprised by some of the drawings I produced, especially with my eyes closed and in such a short time frame. It forced me to not overthink what I was doing and just jump in which I often find difficult.
These drawings were the base for my ideas for my A2 drawing I completed at the end of the week. I began to refine my initial drawings and take aspects from them that I like and that worked well with sleep/awake threshold concept. Here I did a number of smaller drawings that communicated my ideas more clearly.
Each of these drawings highlight one or two more specific thresholds that are linked to the sleep/awake concept.
From here, I combined my ideas and created a draft and then final for my A2 drawing. Luckily all my ideas were closely linked so it wasn’t too had to combine my separate ideas to work in harmony in one piece.
With this final, I identified all of the ideas and thresholds that came together in the one piece and then explained how each one was shown and created in this 2D drawing and how I see the piece through my own eyes and perspective.
Threshold between:
Dream/Certainty:
- Blurred vertical lines (in and out of sleep – the blur between reality and dreams)
- Dark = Certainty of surroundings/reality
- Light = Dream state
Open/Close:
- Blurred vertical lines (opening and closing of eyes when waking up – in between sleep and awake)
- Dark suggests the harshness of reality when opening
- Light suggests the soft and comforting feeling of closing eyes
Horizontal/Vertical & Heavy/ Weightless:
- Soft curved horizontal gradient line is linked to the horizontal positioning of a human sleeping and the weightlessness experienced when in this state (soft, gentle and light)
- Dark harsh vertical lines are linked to the awakening of a human and them standing upright once out of bed. The dark lines relate to the heaviness and weight felt by one when getting out of bed in contrast to the almost weightless feeling of being asleep.
- These two cross over, creating the threshold.
I was surprised by the amount of creativity I produced this week and that I was happy with my end result.
Spatial Design by Ciara 