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BSA203 Research and experimenting

https://people.csail.mit.edu/fredo/gbRealisme.pdf 
^Interesting read to source ideas from for backing up my work.


First of all, inspired by some ideas I saw in the above article, I decided to look into how looking at things changes the way your mind interprets their reality. I experimented by drawing the bed and the lap beside me, first looking through the corner of my eye and relying on my peripheral vision only, then looking at it straight on. The drawings out the corner of my eye are much more surreal, flowing and abstract. The perspective is much different to what we are used to.






After this I decided to try to look at how perspective changes reality. I drew a face but mixed between profile view and portrait view. I think it makes the face more interesting. I am thinking of making my final piece via the medium of face paint. If I was to follow this path I would be interested in further expanding this idea and growing it. I would like to be able to paint things like multiple perspectives on one face to make it appear to be constantly moving even though it is actually still.
I also experimented with drawing on the condensation on the window. I then edited the photos that I took to make the contrast stronger before using filters from snapchat to bring out the darker part of that I had drawn and to add more of an atmosphere to the photos. I experimented with this because I thought it would be interesting to change one things reality into another. By this I mean I tried to turn a condensation-filled window into a canvas. I think that as kids we always seem to see a condensation-filled window as an art opportunity, whereas as adults this seems to be less of an occurrence. This idea fits into my project because it shows how people's perspectives change how they see reality and opportunity for reality.

The first photo is a simple photo of the condensation drawing before I edited the contrast and brought it into snapchat to give an example of the steps I took to achieve the experiment. 










 The palm tree and the boat are the edited photos of the experiment. I think that it is very interesting how, with just simple shapes and some photo editing, the whole way that we see something can change.
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