Our assignment this week was to start thinking about our first assignment: a labyrinth.
We had to first choose a maze design from a maze generator called maze5 (limited to 4 rows and columns) and then come up with three concepts around that pattern.
I chose the maze to the right. I like that it is an organic form but angular at the same time. Beekeeping also runs in my family so I have a personal connection to the form and have always wanted to incorporate this into projects.
In terms of the experience and more detailed form, I had three main ideas:
1. Journey through history/time: Journey of a “spime” or specific location through past or future history. Such as a glacier melting or a street landscape changing over time.
This image is from a project at the MIT Reality Virtually Hackathon in which you can “walk” through stills of a video. More here: https://devpost.com/software/continuum-dy1av0
This is a before and after in a neighborhood in Chicago. More here: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150803/logan-square/logan-squares-milwaukee-avenue-then-now-photos/
2. Scale, size perspective: I love tall buildings and huge trees and big mountains and the feeling of awe that comes from these - a labyrinth that evokes this feeling by using different scales and perspectives or that you’re not sure if you’re big or small.
I took this photo of the Brooklyn Bridge in southern Manhattan.
3. Duality, border, topology: journey between or on the edge of some sort of border between two entities. I like the idea of making the “walls” penetrable so someone could actually step through if they wanted.
I took this photo of the Moray Ruins in Peru. This was a laboratory the Incans used to learn about how plants best grew in different conditions and altitudes. There is a lot of duality symbolism in Incan art, stories and architecture and I felt it reflected in the landscape there.
We also had to put together other visual references for these ideas. Overall, I like the idea of contrasting colors, stark shadows and an organic feel. These photos are a mix of pictures I took in Peru and at the Hilma af Klint exhibit at the Guggenheim.
