five senses: my ideas with what I want to work with

Its been nearly a week since I worked with stamping my painted feet, and I still feel great after it. It has helped ground me and think more clearly.  And it is from this exercise, that I gained inspiration and trust in myself to work with how I am feeling or the space that I am in what every that maybe.. This space I would like to work with I call my emotional space or my internal space.

From this initial idea I am investigating how I can create a space that welcomes the viewer to interact with my installation.. A starting point of this ideas is in creating a journey through our senses. And to do this I am looking at ways in which I can isolate each sense, (sight smell touch taste and hearing). in the hope that I can create an experience that heighten awareness of ourselves and the space with which we relate to.

Stamping it out!

I was Feeling frustrated and confused and really stuck in self criticism., so to release myself from being stuck i decided to work with my negative energy in a positive way by express it. Better out than in i say!.In the pictures below you will see me doing this as I stamped my painted feet on paper and in clay and creating art in the process.

five senses work in progress

Sight

I am making a box which i will cut a hole in so that the viewer can look in.  The objective behind this is to intensify sensory awareness by isolating there sight to visually connect with the space.

I would like to experiment with light and space so I am covering the interior of the box with white paper so to reflect the light.

Free with a Happy Meal in McDonald's I got a toy periscope. It has two mirrors in it so for you can see around corners. I thought I would use this so that the viewer can look around the interior of the box.

Experimenting with a light projector. I really enjoyed making the slides and playing around with the projector.

 I used a mirror to reflected the image onto a side of the interior of the box, opposite the viewers hole, to create an image that the viewer can see.  By doing this, the image was reversed . I would like but don't have one at the moment is to get a bigger mirror so as to capture the whole image.

 Using different images.

 Looking through the viewer into the box.

Experimenting with a reflective surfaces and how light reflects off it.

Experimenting with difference coloured plastic in making my slide. so I used a red piece of plastic in comparison with a transparent plastic which I coloured with markers. My conclusion with this experiment is that the coloured plastic, even thou quite deep red in colour, reflected a pale image in comparison to the images that were  reflected out form the slides that I made with colouring on the transparent plastic

 I used a roll of tape for the mirror to sit on to lift the image up.

Touch

 This is a photo of my touch box in the process of being made.  I cut two holes in the box so that a person could put there hands in to feel inside the box.  I stapled in both holes some material so that the person can't see inside the box. I did this because i wanted to isolating the sense of touch as much as possible, to intensify there touch sensory awareness.