walking home from therapy

 

for this project, i wanted to prioritize the audience's interpretation to a piece, which is core to a lot of the art i make. in my opinion, this piece is relatively safe, but it's a new medium and i'm enjoying the different ideas i'm coming up with for it. this was one of my first, and i think it's strong and simple, two things which i needed desperately considering my workload early this term. 

i think this project most directly plays with the audience's perspective of time and how time is being handled during the piece. there's so many small ways that i have deliberately played with this, from having the main video being reversed, to the timescale of the audio being completely absurd (i mean really, who can walk from the wellness center to SOL house in under a minute?), to even the audio itself being sped up slightly to make the steps you can hear feel a lot faster. 

i think i executed on the idea i had alright, and the product is effective in presenting the ideas i wanted to present, but i think it could have been better. there's a certain messiness to the end product that i'm not a huge fan of, and while i am deliberately leaning into the amateur aesthetic, i think there are moments that take you out of it in ways that i dislike. if i could do this again, i would choreograph things a lot more meticulously, but it was really refreshing to see this project come together so quickly and easily.