Category: SFS

Week 1 Mon 25/02/19

Concept of sleep/wake, transitioning from rest to everyday life, was explored.

Idea of:

• Intimacy – Sense of privacy, separation and isolation regardless of the number of people in the space. E.g. sleeping in a bus packed with people / sleeping in the bedroom by oneself.
• Vulnerability – The act of sleeping usually happens under trust in that one is in an unconscious state while being asleep.
• Threshold in waking – Register waking by sound, sensation, temperature etc.

Four sketches were made using pencil representing four concepts. From top to bottom being light/dark, opening/closure, movement/stasis and horizontal/vertical respectively.

After the sketches were made, I have realized that I have heavily used transition, patterns and shapes in my sketches. The shapes were mainly used to depict the dream state and the wake state – dream being the first thing that comes to mind when the act of sleeping is discussed. In that dreams are often fragmented and are lost easily, dreams are represented as circles that loses shapes and disappears in the wake stage (opening/closure sketch). The dreams that remains in the wake stage are emphasized in the sketch almost like an explosion. Squares were used to represent the screen of a mobile device, which serves as a connection to reality.