Project 3- Time and Motion

View from inside

View of outside


Inside

The blue water that dripped from the top bucket to the bottom

Inside

This project is the most personal project I have ever done. It really took me into deep thought about the subject matter, and I developed a real connection to it. When I was assigned the project "Time and Motion" my immediate thought was to use sand. I was going to have two buckets, one suspended filled with sand, drill a hole in the bottom of it, and have it spill like an hour glass into the bucket below. Over that I was going to project a video. Later, when working with the sand and the buckets I realized that the sand a)was too thick and b)needed a funnel system to keep it flowing consistantly. So, I abandoned the idea and almost immediate idea of using water.

The water became a better idea insantaniously. Not only did it work better physically, but the metaphorical meaning behind is was stronger. So I started to string a bunch of ideas together. The main idea is stuggling to deal with the passage of time. How you spend your whole life collecting memories, wishing them to never go away, but in the back of your mind you know that it's inevitable. I tried to portray this by having the water dripping, simulating the passing of time, and making an obnoxious sound into another bucket. I placed a microphone hooked up to an amplifier up to the bucket to make the sound that much louder and more dramatic. These were all set up in a space that I created using painters plastic. I created a room inside a room, and projected a collage of videos over. The videos contained a combination on my family videos, my parents family videos, and random time basd occurances. I wanted the viewer to watch the video, almost being sucked into the loving memories, but become distracted all the while by the constant reminder of the water dripping.

I also dyed the water blue in case you walked into the space to look at it. I wanted to play with another idea and give the water a sort of double meaning. Lately, me and my friends have been discussing the idea of where you go when you die, and many don't believe we go anywhere. "We're all just drops in the ocean." That's kind of what I was playing with there. When one bucket becomes empty, another becomes filled.

In this project I played with many different ideas that have been swimming in my head. Personally I think they all came together and complemented eachother well.