So here’s my moment;
From the work that I did during the week, I decided that even the gesture I had created was too much. It was still made up of fragments that were joined together to create a bigger idea. I threw around the idea of just using the circle or just the triangle to define as my moment, but part of the intrigue is that I want to see what happens when these artists have to deal with the manipulation of these two parts fused together and read as one.
So I just tried to think of as many ideas as I could to manipulate this moment that I had created. I altered orientation, the size of the dot, whether it was an outline or filled in, the dimensions of the triangle (expanded one way but remaining consistent in the other direction), etc. Here’s what some of my sketches look like.
Notable; just under the asterisk statement (yes, I did spell “realize” with an “s”, it is a habit I picked up from a year of study in the UK), I knocked the figure on its side. It looks so musical! I immediately read it and realiZed the image musically. Up until then, I had teetered around through a number of different realizations in different media, comfortable flowing around all of the performance options. Directly to the right, I manipulated the image in order to see if distorting it in some way would effectively move my brain away from the musical gesture. I still see a musical gesture, but I can also imagine extensive ideas in other media.
Additional sketches more focused on patterns, shapes, and connection more than one image with itself.
These images came from still thinking about this cell multiplication idea. I had done some basic research as well as some more in –depth basic research and figured that this might be a fun idea. How is it that one cell can divide into two which can split into four and nine months later there is a baby? It’s kind of a big idea to wrap your head around; that these tiny abstract pieces all form together and bond and grow and multiply and develop and then somehow there you are, standing there as a human, not what looks like 18 billion of these.
I took my cell division train and ran with it; this is the progression I came up with;
What I ended up writing on the page (mind you, still on the airplane. It was a long flight.) was the following;
“the fractal idea isn’t going to work. It looks too much like an image. Needs to be more abstract. More random? Be/Look formulaic without looking calculated.”
Oh hey, another can of worms. I think I’ll open it. Might as well. However, I’ll open it this week. This is where I am now, ready to open the can of worms of how precisely this all goes together. I think I understand how it’s going to go, I know what I want to put together to get to, where that point of arrival is, and how it should be orientated on paper. It makes sense on multiple smaller pieces of paper, but I need to brave the storm and just put it all together now. Take the big leap.
Before we get to that (it will be another post, another day), I wanted to let you know what I DID decide to do with my moment. I took that image and broke it down even further. I got frustrated with the fractal/cell division process because it looked too much like an image. There were too many parts creating this giant whole and the message got lost in the process. It’s like I was trying to make a statement in an argument and all I was doing was repeating the same thing over and over but louder and with different inflection. It wasn’t communicating the whole idea, the triangle/dot image.
So, I did this. And THIS I am pretty sure, is what I am going to stick with.
I have made it a point to keep most of this sketching process to myself, not showing any of the artists involved. Joelle has been very explicit about not wanting to see what I’m doing ahead of any other performer. I did however, show her this image today and she said that as a performer, the fragments that I had drawn, all working together to form a whole image were much more inspiring and “feasible” than that crazy sun-dial/tower I had drawn up above.
There you have it. I hope the next blog is an image of the score. Or at least a nice half way point of this score.
And a title. Ideas?
-Kate
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