Super Size Me

Following a tutorial this week I was persuaded to try and think 'outside the box' (cheap pun i know) and take my project up to the next level by making something that could not be displayed and fiddled with at my desk, instead it would need a much larger space and be so noticeable that you cant really avoid it.

I suppose it was always in my mind to do something like this and I did have many ideas for a larger piece but i guess i never really thought that with one week left I would be able to radically take my project up a gear but I'm thankful that I did and I'm now happy that my project has finally progressed to were I wanted it to and to where I knew it could go.

So how did I do it I here you ask....

Well, the recent developments within my project have brought me to the idea of 'forced perception' where i put a viewpoint to a viewer and whether they like it or not, they have to look at it. I guess in a way my project has always been like that although I've only really noticed it now. So, as I was saying it was time to take this idea out of my comforting studio space and blow it up.

here is what i produced.

By blocking out (almost) everything around the box and decorating it in a black colour I managed to elimate anywhere for the eye to go to except for the triangle where their eye is instinctively drawn to. By doing this I am forcing a viewpoint onto the viewer by standing in an allocated spot therefore issuing a perception of the outside space upon them .

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Perception: The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

Here I am forcing people to become aware of a space how I basically tell them to.