Week 1 Wed 27/02/19
Bureau Alexander Brodsky’s architecture inspired me to use square shapes instead of circles to represent dreams. The doors placed on the peripheries of the building provokes a lot of questions. Where are the doors leading to? What’s behind the door? Do all doors lead to a different room? What’s in the center? Despite the doors being opened in the reference picture (refer to post Exploring Concepts) exposing a single column in the middle of the structure, doors of different shape, size and colour made me imagine a space with multiple closed doors. Applying that to the concept of dreams, the square/rectangular shapes I used serve as an entrance to different dreams.
The first draft I did uses brainwaves to signify sleeping, a base drawing of the structure of my house as an idea of personal space, empty squares to explore dreams and dark squares to represent where the beds are placed in the house. In terms of privacy, I think dreams are more often generated during uninterrupted sleep during the night when I’m in my personal space.
However, I thought this draft lacked depth in terms of exploring the concept of dream. Instead of placing a focus on personal space, I decided to shift my focus to light and dark. I got an idea to have a thinner layer on top of my drawing that passes light through, inspired from the works of Petra Blaisse. The curtain-like cover not only adds a sense of privacy but also curiosity as you start questioning what is behind the cover. With such development, Draft 2 was generated which became the basis of my painting.
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