My name is Sara I'm in 2nd year Illustration at ECA.

This blog is my journal for my symposium project.

The title of this project is 'Beyond Spaces.'

We got assigned a corridor in the basement of our uni. You have to see beyond it, its function or dysfunction.

A corridor is a transitional spaces. I like that we have this space, because I like the shape of it, and the fact that people just pass thought it. 

Our tutor send us to see the spaces for the first time (for most of us) in this corridor but in the dark, we could take small lights if we wanted.

It was awesome. I loved the feeling of this void with little lines of lights coming from under the doors. The calm, the dark; I really liked this feeling. I wanted to make a film of this first meeting with our spaces but then I figured I wouldn't enjoy it as much as I would if I wasn't filming.

After wards we had to write down the feelings we had there on a post-it, and then put them in the corridor with everyone else's post-it/feeling.

 I have issues to work with groups because every piece of work I do is highly personal and it is quite hard for me to open up with others (it is kind of why I do art actually, to communicate without direct interaction); but I'm looking forward to work with my group because there is so many different fields : TV&film, animation, fashion, jewellery, product design, graphic design and me ! It is very exiting to share and create a common thing with all these different way of thinking&seeing the world ! 

We already had a lot of ideas; it's going to be a common use of the corridor, like everyday's life of the corridor, but an introspection of this trivial space.

Thrashing out ideas :

-big sheets of paper on the floor to get footprints.

-filming everyday w/ different camera, different people, different angle, different mood

-recording sounds, make a 'track' (more like a noise track I guess) and put big sheets of paper

on the wall so people throw their emotions on the paper while listening to the sounds of the corridor at another time.

-installation w/ a sort of film (abstract) of all these shots by different cameras, and filming details we couldn't see just walking by + people walking by, maybe interact w/ w-sheets of paper (on wall so people can draw lines while walking), project the film on these sheets of paper ? 

-the use of light&sounds&their collaboration in a film/video (what if there is a sounds but the image is not corresponding .)

-use of spaces next to the corridors, spaces that the corridor leads to .