WEEK 2
Continuing from last week, after having a look at some references. I found an interesting book called Ways of Seeing by John Berger, which inspired and helped me shape my iteration this week
“The way we see things is affected by what we know or we believe”
“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves”
JOhn berger, ways of seeing
Due to that, I began to write my project statement and shape my enquiry which is exploring the relationship between one’s individual experience and erotic images. How we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. Through the use of imagery sourced from a queer archive filled with homoerotic images, I used the power of focus to highlight what we’ve overlooked and to propose how suggestive small details can be and explore how the meaning or feeling can shift by giving the audience a new perspective, to leave rooms for audience’s creativity and imagination. Not only through cropping and filtering small details but also by adding captions and mimicking everyday objects to challenge their ways of seeing based on their individual subjectivity and situated knowledge of the viewer.
And to develop this enquiry further and continue my iterative experiment, I’ve made three publications in response to that
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In the first publication, I tried to challenge a viewer’s way of seeing by cropping and zooming in on the details of the images
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In the second one, I filtered small details by using the same grid system as last week (70 pixels) to leave space for the viewer’s imagination
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In the third (the last one), I added captions and tried to hijack those words into a viewer’s mind