From week1 to week2, as I chose weaving a the method, my enquiry changed from ‘How to visualise the life in London?‘ to ‘How to use weaving as a graphic design method to visualize life in London?’ to ‘How to use weaving as a means of graphic design to visualize perspectives and emotions of the life in London?’
London as a world famous city has countless attractions and places of interest, but that’s only for tourists. What kind of city is London to people who really live in London? What kind of emotions do people living here have for this city?
Taking a walk in London as an example, I extracted the images that most aroused my emotions from my perspective. These images make up my London. This city is no longer gorgeous and prosperous, but lonely, yearning and full of hope. So I want to express these emotions and perspectives in a visual way.
Experiments
class difference
Asian identity
sense of belonging
free
Light and darkness
warmth
full of life
bright
homesickness
warmth
sense of belonging
cold
sharp
hopeless
Comments:
Working
- pixels
- colors
not working
- is that real weaving but not wrapping?
- mixture of different things
- materials
Line of enquiry & writing prompts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1seQOrj93BOLOvbMWB9IwwNJNegquRpy5/view?usp=sharing
Statement:
landscape of the city from a personal perspective. A city is no longer a combination of buildings, streets, and people in the objective sense, but the life seen by different individuals and the emotions they get in the city. Images are one of the main ways we record our life in the city. Through image reconstruction, it reflects the changes in different individual perspectives and personal subjective choices. The change of the city no longer follows the laws of time, but changes with the change of perspective from one person to another.
So, what kind of way to choose to convey emotion has become a crucial issue. Among digital and handmade, I chose traditional weaving which can contain more emotion. Weaving itself is socially symbolic. It is often considered feminine, historical, emotional, and personal. Through weaving, cotton threads and photos are combined to form an abstract picture, and personal emotions and memories of images are infinitely magnified.
Experiments have proved that such a medium combination of rare figurative information and abstract patterns forms an obstacle in the transmission of information. The audience can only vaguely discern the scene where the image was shot and use vague guesses to understand the message that the sender wants to express. All in all, all of this is too personal. But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad way, but there’s a lot to improve. When the topics I discuss involve cities and groups of people, more samples should be added to the discussion, including different nationalities, races, and social classes, and more sample data should be obtained through field investigations for a wider range of information collection. Secondly, the way of weaving is too single. As mentioned earlier, this kind of behavior itself can contain a lot of emotions. Through diversified weaving techniques, we can express emotions more accurately.