First post, week 1

Woohoo, I've got blogpost. . . okay not so excited about that part and not so satisfied with the look of my blog, but I'll change it...sometime. I want to use this blog to update about the projects I'm working on.

So this is week 1 (calendar week 36) of my Automorphose project (such a better word for Ego, only not). I actually already had an idea for this project. I haven't had a title for it, I made that during first meeting. It's called "The Rainbow Valley". Why? It's about me and the chaos that is my way of thinking and doing. There is a valley and in that valley is a village. On top of the valley lives an old lady. Every day she goes down to buy groceries and has to carry them home. The player has to make sure she gets safely into the village and back home. It has to go very tiresome and frustrating, because she is old and has a lot of limitations and also the heavy yoke is a real literal weight on her shoulders. This is actually an interactive self-portrait to show inbalance, but not something that would suit this project. I had doubts and gave it a long thought and decided not to go with it.



The first sketch.

I'm actually curious and very excited to know what I'd make if I started from point 0. So let's start. Okay, first class, make 5 minute sketches of the words "mud" (drek), "seasons" (getijden) and "gap" (leemte).



Courtesy to my good friend and classmate Tamarah de Jager (thanks hun! (-;)

My sketches are none-existent to barely visible in this picture XD oh dear. They are on the left side of the pillar-ish thing poking out the wall. In anycase, I like most of them, not all. Also the assignment to make on your own/at home/school is to make a stillness out of yourself. Without thinking about it too much. So here is m stillness.



Everything in red is Dutch, but it says something about my favorite things and such.

Well don't really know what to make. In other words back at 0. Glad it's at the beginning of my process and not in the middle or end.

Till next week,

Ilse