Saturday, April 19, 2008

SATURDAY planning the project detail

This is a picture I took in Berlin. I was struck by how the Madonna tradition remains even on this monument to Karl Marx beside a river. I want to be mothered with big strong hands like that.Communist Mother and Child
Its night-time.
I've been 'struggling' much of the day to make a focus for what I am going to do with these skills I am learning with Mark in After Effects.

I still like the idea I am working with - putting videos under the colours to create a texture.

But I am not satisfied that just dumping in my last years work, almost in a heap, is good enough.

I need to answer questions like these:

Why choose one video rather than another?
Why put it under one colour, rather than another?
Why make it one shape rather than another?
Why should one be a complete view, and the other a partial view

What might be the relationship between the original colours of Gerry's painting, and the original colours in my videos/images? Would forcing a relationship be helpful

What might be the relationship between the various components, other than that I did them this year?

I don't really have any answers to these questions, other than that's just the way it worked out when I was putting them in place. I did make conscious choices, but without reasoning to back them up.

Will sleep on it, and see if I have any better ideas tomorrow

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