TASK:
*on lockdown so it was done on google maps*
This task was really interesting because it was all online, on google maps but it was done with music on too. Going on a journey on google maps and having to observing it is a very weird but interesting concept because everything was built up of 360º imagery so the world 'around you' is frozen. The music I was listening to at each stopping point had an impact of how I saw it and created my own atmosphere for each place. It was weird looking at a place you know is real but without people moving and general city sounds. So I found my self looking at the place as more of a photograph and as not real to me. This then led me to start imagining and constructing ideas about each place in my head.
I thought it was really interesting looking at my starting point versus looking where I ended up. Because you can travel very far across google maps within 4 minutes in comparison to 4 minutes on foot. I started in Putney in London where my parents love and then ended up in Central London outside the UCL. The first half of my journey was super familiar as I know the are super well so I tried to take my self along back streets in to places I normally don't go down.
During this ask, it struck me how weird it was that the world had been reconstructed through a series of photos that you can travel through, making it seem somewhat 3D. I really wanted to manipulate this to make a 2D collage of made of up screen shots from the same place on google maps. I stayed in one place and pivoted around and screen shotted certain bits and then reform it to look like a panorama that has some dimensional illusions. This thought reminded me of Hockney's photo series called 'Joiners'. Each of his pieces were made up of lots of polaroid of the same subject and was reconstructed in an overlapping grid-like effect. The subject of the photographs would be moving in their natural state which would show fluidity and movement in these overall collage. I thought this was an interesting concept as he was mapping their movements and natural state over time but forming one photo out of it. This was kind of the opposite to what I was doing as there was no movement in the place, but me moving and pivoting around in it. This was the outcome:
I quite liked the out come and that some areas didn't directly match up as it showed the dimensional difference. I suppose it is another style of documentation of one street.
HOCKNEY JOINERS:
I really like the construction of Hockney's joiners as each image is taken separately at a slightly different time which could be minutes or seconds apart, but were from the same moment. The construction of them is like a map, mapping the moment and sometimes movement of the subject and its surroundings.
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