Saturday, October 15, 2011

Brooke's updated and altered proposal.

I did some thinking about my past proposal and decided that it wasnt very meaningful to me, and so i thought a little deeper about my theme, and what i could do to make it a little more compelling and meaningful.  Going alone with the "fears from childhood" theme, I suddenly remembered I had completely forgotten about my biggest one- carwashes.  I have memories of sitting in the backseat of my parents car strapped in my carseat as we drove through a carwash.  I can clearly see the car slowly moving through a dark tunnel with the giant brushes swifting back and forth and suffocating our car- blocking the view from every window leaving remains of colored soap in its track.

The thing that scared me most was the movement.  The way the long strips of fabric swayed back and forth as the bristles rotated; it was almost as if it was slow motion.  I felt like the bristles were going to  suck me in and swollow me.  I had nightmares about it forever, and still to this day thinking about it gives me the chills.

For my project I want to keep the idea of installation by making two giant car wash bristles, about 7 feet or hight tall.  I want to position them side by side very close to eachother, and install them right infront of the corner of a room.  That way when it is on display, one can walk inbetween the two bristles and get the feeling of claustrophobia i felt as a child.  Once they squeeze through, they will be trapped in a corner that will display 2 video projectors, one of a child in a car seat crying while going through a carwash, and the other of the bristles in motion at a car wash.  The volume will be high, and the screams will be very loud.  I want this to be complete censory overload; to be able to feel how overhwhelming and scary an experience like this can be. Positioning my art in a corner will allow the viewer to get the sense of trapped-ness I felt while going through a carwash.  Being overwhelmed by something scary completely thrown at you, and not being able to run away from it.  You're trapped.

I have a few ideas of how this might work.  First for the easy part, I am going to research on youtube different videos of children going through carwashes and crying.  I've already found a few good ones.  I'm going to make an iMovie of a collabaration of youtube videos that will be displayed on one of the projectors, and for the other one, I'm going to take my car through a carwash and film the experience.

For the two giant bristles, I'm going to take two of the thin tall wooden poles that are laying around the woodshop and make that the base structure.  I havent decided how tall they might be because first i need to decifer the space they will be in.  I am going to build a wire structure off of the pole and then put plaster mesh around it.  I am then going to buy felt and cut millions of strips out and attach them to the structure to give it its bristle look.  I really want the image of sway to be prevalent so i might put a substance on each felt so they stand on end.  I haven't decided if the giant bristles will be movable or not when somebody walks through them.  Either i'll do that or i might even get people to go inside the bristles and make the movements to make the art seem more real.  Also if i do that then the people inside can use their body to make the bristles seem much scarier- possibly grabbing or squishing the person going through.  The whole idea of this fear themed project is for the viewer to get a real feeling of sensory overload just like i did as a child.  I think my idea will portray that perfectly.

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