Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Experimental drawing with Liminal Space

As a reflection on the experimental drawing session today, we had a great tutorial which took place in the university gymnasium. Powerful lamp projectors were used in the darkened hall to create liminary space through projected light. 

I tried to make referencial links to Proff. Victor Turner, regarding his own defiunitions of the liminal from his anthropological studies. It was possible to achieve this as there were three parts to thhe whole liminal process in the temporal sequence; that being the pre-liminal, liminal and post-liminal.  These can also be applied to the borders of transitions with movement between light and dark, forest to city, head to mind etc. 

Earlier it had been suggested to find links in work by Joale Kasinski, which provide an exploration from the seen to the unseen. - Pictures of motion, but then frozen or made static can have tthe same affect. (See Frederick Frank's book, "the Zen of Seeing"). - Trying to capture a sense of a pathway to another place or even to another dimension....

Graphite stick & Charcoal, with erased lines
We used inflated gymnasium exercise balls placed in the beams of the projectors to create interesting effects, for example, the lettering of the projector's manufacturer being distorted against a divergent surface, gave a subtle surrealist view...

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