Entry1

My brainstorm about this title ‘Here’ starts from how people show themselves are in a different place, which is phisically being somewhere. Tourists usually take pictures with landscapes; Some people like to post instagram with a location tag; Some prefer sending their friends post cards; Some collect stamps; Some likes to buy souvenirs…etc. Then how do I show I’m here?

Those are the experiments I’ve done this week responding to the title ‘Here’. I mainly restricted myself by using paper as it said in the instruction. I made the map in P1 with tape, paper and color paper. It was simplified from a map of brick lane vintage market which I visited the week before (On the leaflet above) The black tape was used to represent the route, the rectangles were elements I picked up from the original map. After I made this piece , the black line and restricted color made me think of the work of Piet Mondrian—‘composition with yellow, blue and red’. His clear and neat line work with color blocks shows a symbolist character. One thing I might reconsider is that the rectangle shapes I put on my work wasn’t placed with any purpose. I probably need to consider more about how I am engaging  and connecting with this work and put more elements that is related to myself into it. I think although this piece is experimenting and using the resource that I collected ‘here’ but it didn’t actually answer “How do I show I’m here”

In P2, I was trying to play with the pin📍on the map, trying to say something like “I’m here”. The material I used for this piece of experiment was cardboard, transfer paper, poster and prints out of my first hand resource. This route is the route form my home to Camberwell everyday, I chose this route because this is probably the most frequently used route for me during these weeks. And I did a bit collage on this route. The circle at the top is the location of my home and I put a pin on it to show ‘I’m here’. I made this pin with a straw and rope. My further idea about developing this project is to took pictures of myself holding a pin in an environment and play with the scale of the pin.