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October 27, 2005
Spatial Design - Motion Through Space
We had to to examine a moment of physical movement in space. I chose to video myself improvising some dance in the studio. I then isolated a moment where I moved forward into a leap. I broke the two seconds of movement down, frame by frame from the video. Then, I tracked the movement over time of certain physical landmarks (crown of head, shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, knees, feet), by marking their changing positions on transparencies. I then presented the transparencies in consecutive order, and threaded different coloured threads through them, to illustrate the individual paths of the respective body parts.
Here is a photo:
Then, as a next stage in the investigation, I created this simple shape using wire and pantyhose. The shape was created by the movements through space of my hands and feet during the leap. The photo below shows the shape turned vertical.
Posted by edpurver at October 27, 2005 03:55 AM