Orientation

We started our module with a class discussion on perceiving dreams and sketching what we remembered from our dreams with charcoal in the initial stages. The objective of this course was to help us explore free hand drawing through the medium of charcoal and our entire bodies covered in it during the drawing process, working with the others as a group and exploring new forms as to show how a space can be experienced using different materials. Moving forward with the individual drawings, groups were created of those having inter related dreams and then we were supposed to have a collective drawing with each idea merged into one.

Our group worked with the sensations of drowning, speed, distortion and movement that came from our dreams, and merged them into one drawing exploring various ways as to how it can be drawn such that one can feel these sensations through the drawing.

The next step was to create an installation from which we could experience the senses from our drawings. We started off by experimenting on what our form would be along with trying various methods to use different materials. The form we arrived on was by cutting and tucking corrugated sheets and then placing them in such a way that two pieces seemed to be connected to each other but changed their direction. The final installation was a wave-like form that made us experience the feeling of our surrounding closing in on us from every direction while standing in the middle.