Sept 3, 2019 / First Day
The first day was different than I expected. I have observed that I need to change some parts of the thinking techniques I have learned before. The most important of these was that when I started the project I had to focus on the part, not the whole. After that, I am planning to apply “piece to the whole perspective”. We started on three randomly distributed concepts. This situation was a little bit creepy because these were not the concepts I knew before so I started to progress gradually. Firstly, I researched the concepts and then I found pictures of them. In the second part, I made to the mind map about these concepts and I started to Artist'S researches. At the end of the day, I found artworks and prepared them for the next section. The good side of today is that I think I'm breaking my tension.
Sept 4, 2019
Today's class was fun, We discussed designer's issues and I learned a lot of new things and observed different perspectives. This topic was very interesting for me because I think, almost every artists has a lot of problems, especially nowadays. Doing this work in a group gave us an advantage because we were focused on different topics then shared. We made mind maps about the issues. Firstly we categorized each problem and we have listed.
I chose the problem of discrimination and focused on "Social Classes" for secondary research because its a large area, especially nowadays the discrimination between people has increased a lot and in my country this condition is very common. I researched this topic and I found a photography project which is "Set out to create a community by Lola Paprocka". I used this art exhibition as an example because the exhibition touched upon many topics for example; LGBT, economic factors, physical appearance, race, and religions. At the same time, I was very impressed that the exhibition consisted of the works of volunteer artists. I thought about their works and the exhibition's aim. Then filled some forms. After the project, I realized revealing some problems with photographs can touch more people and become more striking.
Our mind map:
Sept 5, 2019
The third day was harder than day 1. I got lost myself many times during the development phase of my project and I found it in different directions. I think I should accustom myself to acting in a more planned way. Due to a lack of material, I could not make my 3D model as I wanted. At the same time, my narcissism concept was a bit difficult because I was trying to prepare my project as an architectural work so I had to go back to where I started so often. In the end, I designed my model as I wanted by taking advantage of my research and sketches. I've decided to use narcissism as a metaphor. In the model, I tried to highlight the message I want to give. In spite of everything, the idea factory in the first week was not good for me. It was fruitful, but I don't think I could fully reflect myself.
Reflection
In this project, ı worked on two different terms and one concept which are " Rubber", "To carry" and "Narcissism". Firstly I researched a rubber and I found some examples of it. Old serum tubes were one of these examples. When I move to the second part, I started to second research, "to carry" reminded me of concept of "movement" and "transfer" then these concepts reminded me of "days". In this way, the idea of making lighting came to my mind. But after the researches, I learned rubber is not suitable material for it so I changed my mind. During the lighting researches, I inspired by Soto's work and designed some lightings from it. My third part of the research was Narcissism, I examined meanings of narcissism and the paintings because I wanted to learn thoroughly then I did the mind map about my outcome. I inspired by Picasso's work, I designed two buildings. I tried to show the concept of narcissism by making one larger than the other. I used rubber as a stair's tunnel material. I placed the staircase between the two buildings. This design symbolized narcissism. At the end of the project, I decided that this building would be a bank because it came "ironic" to me. In this way, I also referred to social discrimination.