Sunday, 16 January 2011

Light and Dark

While the universe is so large that humanity cannot percieve it as a whole, there are also many parts that for all purposes appear dark to us. Scientists have shown us that there is indeed light there but our eyes cannot see such light.

I want to emphasis this idea of light and dark in my animation, so I decided that I would use only black and white and juxtapose between the two.

I was also greatly inspire by this video, the play of light and dark and the symbols are beautiful and it feels almost etherial in places.

Hidden Project

The final major project for this particular assesment is "hidden." I personally have had a lot of trouble with this brief, as I find it difficult which such a broad subject and take too long to decide on a good idea, I often run out of time to actually implement it.

Nevertheless I decided to found my idea on the principle of things that the human eye cannot percieve. At first this lead me to the realm of the atom, a world which humanity still cannot physically see but is left only to imagine based on the discoveries in the last century.
At the same time I thought about the universe itself and how these "hidden" atoms are the makeup of everything that IS percivable. While the universe as a whole is gigantic and certainly humanity has "seen" parts of it, to witness the universe as a whole complete spectrum is impossible.

I find it fancinating that two of the most powerful things that indeed make up our very existance and everything we can physically see are in essence "hidden" from our very eyes.

This Blog

I have created this blog with the purpose of displaying my work-in-progress for the projects I have been working on for my assessment at Bath Spa University. I will be uploading and linking all my development work and some of the resarch that has infulenced my decisions on my own work.