Updates on the new upcoming project.
The viewer will be sitting or lying alone in a tent (Only one person allowed in at a time - allowing the experience to be much more personal) The tent will be kitted out with cushions, duvets, sleepng bags making it as comfortable as possible. The tent will also be isolated from anybody else, so one person venturing into the room and experiencing the whole thing alone may in itself be a stray from the viewer's comfort zone.
The films will begin once the person enters the tent, or it will be on a continuous loop. The images surrounding the viewer will transport them into different tight, close spaces in which they may feel happy and comfortable, or claustrophobic, testing the individual's boundaries, and the general line between comfort and claustrophobia.
The idea was inspired by the original concept for Brendan Monroe's interactive sculpture, 'Borborygmi', a stomach like space made of pink and red cushions which makes the sounds of the inside of a person's stomach when you touch or interact with the walls of the space. I was inspired by the statement that Monroe said of the sculpture, that some people found that they felt comforted by the womb-like structure, and others felt claustrophobic in it.
A micro-project that I will begin on the side soon is using a super 8 camera to film a recurring dream that I had about a year ago, I always wanted to film it as the images were so vivid in my mind, and I think soon may be the time.
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