Daily Archives: 20th Nov 2019

3D Practice – Memory

For this project i wanted to focus on the theme of authenticity and reliability. Our memories overtime often become unreliable and our brain struggles to recall information. After researching this through articles and short documentary’s i found out the Brain takes in each bit of information individually before combining it all together to create one completed image. With this I started my media experiments by wanting to create small individual piece that I could combine in different ways using different methods of construction/deconstruction.

The first set of mod rock and wire pieces allowed me to arrange my ideas in different positions and experiment with balance and weight as well as how they would occupy a space together as well as separated. I also began to consider how I might consider the physical movement of these parts coming together/falling away from each other.

As i experimented with what materials i wanted to use when connecting things together I began to consider the idea of how we tell stories and recall memories – linking different elements of the story together to create one whole image or picture. Almost like a jigsaw each piece requires heavily on the surrounding pieces.

  • some working drawings done when combining small parts and how they were going to fit together

At this point in the project began to consider the 3 stages of how the brain processes information and how I could depict this –

THE ORIGINAL INFORMATION- PHYSICAL ACT OF BREAKING IT DOWN- PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER TO CREATE A WHOLE IMAGE.

  • with both plaster and clay i started with a solid ball before separating it off into smaller chunks and the putting it back together as a whole. This method did become time consuming tho and i didn’t think it was visually that interesting. whoever i liked the physical act of my trying to put it back together and could have developed this further into a performance piece.
This idea moved forward with me wanting to show delivery of information to the brain and show how it changes and agin highlight the authenticity of memories again. To do this I wanted 2 separate parts that would link together- one being the original information- the other ho is is translated in the brain or how it is retold/reimagined by that person. With this in mind i experimented joining together different parts of wood of different colours and textures.