How to use architectural concepts of space to understand personal interaction with the environment?
19.7.09
The movement:Experiment
In this journey, a GPS device is used to record movement on a given path for collecting more elements throughout the journey, photos are taken at the same time. The purpose of using a GPS device is to navigate with the use of satellite technology. The observer relies on this technique to arrive to the point of arrival; meanwhile, the path of the journey is also recorded. After returning from this journey, the information can be collected and uploaded to the website. The personal experience of the journey becomes a saved file in the internet. It is a form of personal cartography that documents an occurrence in life as a visual journal. The picture below is an image captured from the website. Information about this journey is also linked to my personal blog.(27.01.09)
At the point of arrival, these technological devices can not only record the path of the journey, but also define the position and direction of sunlight, this information is also collected. The project depends on this technology to analyze the trace of light during a particular period of time in Stone Circle. This work also helps reveal the movement of shadow in space. Here are the drawings that represent the movement about the track of sunlight and the trace of shadow.
This personal blog is to guide and upload the research, and further to clarify concepts used in this project. This research focus on the interaction between light and shadow, It presents how the observer communicates with environment is by the experience of the journey.
This project is about a peculiar journey in which the crucial aim is not necessarily to arrive the final destination but to record and describe the experiences of journey by the observer. In other words, the most relevant aspect of this journey is the information being “experienced” by observer before reaching the arrival per se, in Stone Circle, a historical site located in Oxfordshire(UK).
The main interest of this work is the interaction between people and environment, and how people perceive the world where they live. People can smell, see, touch, and listen, when they live in certain environment. The interesting issues are: what other forms of interaction with the environment would remain? What kind of conversation would exist between observers and objects?
The journey made by images focuses on the shadow of objects and the image of a place that is used, touched, walked, and seen. The series of photographs are arranged according to time-and-space intervals. The photographs are the trace, the footprints, and a specific interpretation of parts of the journey.
