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A6

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I started the exploration with an analysis of edge conditions and trip hazards, explored the transition of heat drawn away from my body by sitting on the cold cement, and tried to represent texture along the edge of a planting area.

Next I sat in the plaza and tried to imagine the world only from what I could hear. Annotating direction, rhythm, and amplitude of sound surrounding me.

 

I walked across the plaza looking for something to draw, and I noticed that through my thin shoes I could feel the difference in textures as I walked around. This map attempts to denote the rythm and feeling of my foot as I traveled across the plaza using only line. each segment of dotted line represents an individual step (although it is not to scale), with the expression of the line meant to indicate how the step felt: soft, sharp, etc.

Im calling the top drawing a texture map – the line attempts to communicate the soft and rough textures along the hands path of this moss covered tree limb.|

The bottom Drawing is about the sensorial experience of each step in the process of making a vegan take on a deep south bbq sandwich and bananna pudding desert.

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(ive tried re-uploading these images but it is still cropping them weirdly)

Laureen Stokes – Assignment 6

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Gusts of wind from the door.

Framing the view: intense contrast between the roof overhang, wood counter-top and the south.

Five different materials: Concrete pavers, wood countertop with aluminum window frame, hydrangeas in the wind, metal stool, and plastic chair & table.

Acoustic map. The source and quality of sound.

I sat in a high-end coffee shop, at a bar with the cash register behind me.  The contrast of light and dark between the inside and outside was intense. Most of the surfaces inside were polished and hard, creating a lot of reverberations of conversation and the banging and whining from the coffee machinery.

The bar I was sitting at was wood, but wood that has been cut to crisp corners, polished and varnished.  Despite being a natural material, the wood became a human artifact; it lost many of its organic qualities in the manufacturing process.  It was perfectly smooth without the natural curves and divots from raw wood.  No knots or normal defects were found.  Running fingers over its surface was like touching any other human-made material – neutral in temperature and without variation in texture. It was rigidly and aggressively rectangular. It added an organic element to the visual landscape but not the multi-sensorial space.

Lauren Wolfe Assignment 5

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Blindfolded Drawing in Class

Part 1: looking for form

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Part 2: drawing how it feels in my hand

1 whole hand pressed against one side

2 holding it mostly from the bottom 

3 light touch at the top on either side

No longer blindfolded. It’s a cup!

At Home, Still Blindfolded

1 looking for form

2 feeling pressure points of where the curves meet my fingers

3 drawing the texture

4 actual object, it’s a glass sea anemone. after drawing blindfolded I saw the object differently and instead of drawing the outline I saw the textural markers more clearly

Lauren Wolfe Assignment 3

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At home exercise, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum

The museum was not busy when I went there, so I wasn’t able to track movement of people visually. What I did find was the experience of hearing other people as they came near me and then move further away. Because the rows of exhibits make it hard to see beyond your row it amplifies this feeling of hearing people around you. The blue arrows track my movement through the space, and the colours track different noise moments I experienced during my visit.

Below I was looking at circulation through the whole space. It was my first visit and I was surprised to come down the ramp, leaving the airy top floor and find myself in this cramped basement full of narrow rows of tall looming cases.

 

In-class exercise diagramming rain.

  1. My final attempt at drawing rain water flow from the roof of these townhomes near my house.
  2. I redrew this version based on feedback in class trying to make it more clear, and link the falling rainwater with the collection channel.

My first attempt at drawing water flow. This is a water feature near my house and part of rainwater collection system. I realised it isn’t very diagrammatic so I moved on to trying to draw the flow of rainwater.

Below is my first attempt at drawing rain more diagrammatically, and I did not like it at all, so I tried again on some building across from this one (see above.)

Week 5 – Chloe Naese

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In-class Exercise: shell
While blindfolded, I tried to convey the shell’s elliptical form and rough, gritty texture. When I drew it without the blindfold, the smooth texture and the shininess of its interior surface stood out the most as this was not as noticeable through touch.

Assignment 5 – Scrunchie
My mysterious object was a scrunchie. While drawing blindfolded, I immediately noticed its wrinkly/wavy texture and how it could be flattened and stretched. I also felt a material change between two small smooth rubbery patches and the soft fabric.
When drawing with sight, I tried to portray the shadows created by the folds.