Moving on from the initial responses I wanted to continue developing the drawings of still moments. I brought some of them into photoshop to play around with where I could take them.

Throughout this project I have been creating pieces of writing that reflect my line of thought about this topic. I have never felt confident in my writing however I feel like it is really relevant as the writing is alway created in a moment of slowing down and reevaluting. For these works I used a piece of automatic writing I had done with the intention to play and visualise the words.

-Working in digital helped me to create quick developments + to not be so precious.
-I feel like they replicate quite well a pause in thought or a moment of boredom.
-Feels flat and I don’t like the lack of physical texture.
-Layers make it feel like thoughts coming in and out of focus/ soft daydream like.
– I like the writing however I have a tendency to hide it so it isn’t legible- which means that it only provides visuals of the letters and not actually the context.

Video developments

I wanted to create videos that take inspiration from the ideas developed in the digital photos. I have been collecting footage over this project that captures still moments of observation similar to my drawings. I wanted to further the written side of the work and also the idea of a visual pause.

At the same time I was seeing adverts all the time for apps, such as “calm”, that are used for meditation. They often use animations that involve gentle movements or growing and shrinking shapes that you can match your breathing to.
-I took inspiration from this to create some simple animations using ‘Adobe after effects’- this turned out to be a lot more complicated than i thought however i love the opportunities it has for digital work.
– although difficult and time consuming i feel at this point it is the best route to follow to create work that is connected to my theme.

-I feel like these short videos continue my drawing work in a way that interests me more.
– i need to play around with words/subtitles more- some of it feels distracting and doesnt allow you time to watch the video
– are there other ways i can display the writing? spoken word, animation, displayed next to the video?
– how would the work be displayed? as a clipp joined into one or on separate screens? how will the sound work with this?
– i like the footage i have taken for these and i aim to capture more to choose from or perhaps link them together.