Telling Stories

This weeks task was by far the most enjoyable and profitable in terms of directing me towards my final project. We were told to document a boring event in detail, or document time passing through drawings, textures and words. The idea of telling an unexpected story has always interested me and been in the back of my mind when thinking about what to do in my project and this task gave me the opportunity to experiment with this idea. Whilst I sat in the library on a cold and wet sunday afternoon, I decided to document every specific detail I noticed in a ten minute time period. Below are my findings;

During the time period, it felt I had lost control of my mind and body. It seemed as if I was unconsciously noticing things and noting them down, without even registering their existence. I was amazed with how quick I became lost in the library and was shocked in how quick the 10 minutes went, considering I expected it to be massively boring and drag on. Whilst reviewing my findings there was one drawing that caught my eye the most. I had referred to the ceiling lights of the library as spaceships. I looked up at the lights again and couldn't really see it, had I hallucinated the idea of spaceships? Did my mind make up this new identity for the lights as a form of entertainment? Questions flooded my mind about how and why I made this assumption during the 10 minute period but then failed to really reconnect with the idea after.

I began to think about 'day dreaming' and the power and control it can assert over ones mind. I liked this idea, I began to feel that this could be the platform for my project. All I was doing was sitting in the library, a building with a chilling silence and sense of concentrating radiating from the wall, yet I had picked up on so many details. Something as simple and non-existent as aisle signs, that we usually look at but fail to take in, interested me. I imagined lights as spaceships and the subtle whispering of noise as peoples brains speaking out loud and interacting. A task so simple and a venue so boring has led me on a tangent that I feel will work as the platform for my project, all I need to do now is develop the story/ idea.