finalized thesis idea

Project Description: My project engages the viewer with the idea/topic of global warming. For my thesis project I want to build a sandbox that viewers can walk in, with type under the sand. The goal is to have the viewer step into the box and have to shuffle around the sand to read the text. The sandbox will depict the analogous relationship of the ocean tides to the idea of global warming. If you imagine the weather as waves and the tide as the climate you can begin to see the metaphor between the two. Waves at the beach repeat the never-ending cycle of the tide; they come in, they go out. Some waves travel far up the beach and some fall short. But you can't tell without observing whether the tide's coming in or out. It's only the trend that matters, not the waves. This idea is the basis for my project.

reaction to crit group 2/12/10

theres not much to say on this front, except more frustration. i will say its been the best critique i've had dealing this this project. it wasnt as negative or aggravating as the ones i have in my design class . im trying to work through some new ideas proposed such as creating controversy and possibly adding some form of audio or sound clips. my frustration level is reaching a record high since it seems my path to my project keeps changing. which is getting me worried since the installation date is coming quickly. the further we move through this thesis process the more i dont understand it. i mean if i wanted to create work for the gallery i would of been a sculptor or painter. but i dont want to create for a gallery and would much rather be learning techniques within the design programs to boost my skills. i feel this would get me further once i done school than being able to say i put work up in a gallery!

pending thesis project.

this is in the working stages and i just developed a more formal idea for my thesis. Here it is:

*I came up with a general survey question relating to the world outside someones door, "the natural world". With the data collected I want to create a video that is made up of pictures, so more like a slide show. The slideshow shuffles through generalized pictures that relate to the data collected from the survey. Some of the survey answers were audio based so i might use that as the sound for the slide show. After the show shuffles through the generalized photos it will shuffle the same photos but with a human figure standing in image. The figure will be holding a sign so to speak, saying the answer to the survey question. Once all the data is done being collected I will pick out the best answers that fit the question. Then once those images are done, the screen would go from maybe a gray color to complete white. This in hope would transition to the idea of “nothing”, representing if we dont fix our planet now and soon we will be left with nothing. The slide show would more or less be broken into 3 parts . Once it plays through once the speed of the show goes faster, and again on the next rotation it goes faster still. Until the images start to blur together into the white of the emptiness. While this is playing on the gallery wall I will have vinyl txt, that is either the survey question or helps get across the main focus of the piece which is that we need to save our planet so to speak. The way in which the text is laid on the wall be help evoke the person to want to watch the video, i want to use the text pull the viewer into the video/slideshow.


-- as a side note to the install group i do not need much space and would only need enough to put up a tv for my video/slide show. yet enough space to make the txt large in size. so i have no experience in dealing with gallery wall but i would assume like a 8x8 maybe 10x10 square piece of wall. i don have much of an idea. but there's a starting point i suppose.