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WALKING TO CLASS

Artist Statement:

My piece is about the people you pass on your way every day, but never meet. You see them so often that they quickly become familiar, but you are strangers as much as the first day you met. My piece shows the same people walking back and forth past each other again and again, and never agknowleging each other. I wanted to put it somewhere where people would pass it on their way to class and see it as kind of a reflection of their own motions. My project is about the things that we never take the time to pay attention to. it is about the people we never take the time to care about. We are all caught up in our own little worlds. I also hoped that my piece would (if briefly) take people out of their own little worlds, and make them look up and notice other people walking on their way to class.

Ideation:

Projected from inside the JEC:

ideation

Realization:

The final flash movie:

Shining out from the library:

Pictures:
 
 

INFLUENCES:

Claes Oldenburg

"Claes Oldenburg is best known for his ingenious, oversized renditions of ordinary objects..." read more.
I wanted to make my people very ordinary but stylized, simplified, and oversized.

Krzysztof Wodiczko
Wodiczko is famous for projecting images onto public buildings and into public spaces, often addressing controversial issues. learn more... The issued I addressed were not controversial, Wodiczko definitly inspired me to create this projection in a public space.

Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips is my favorite flash animator. His stuff is incredibly realistic, but also very playful. He used to work for Disney, but now is a freelance animator living in Australia, His website is biteycastle.com

 

Tom Fulp
On the other end of the amazing flash spectrum is Tom Fulp, creator of newgrounds.com, and the popular flash and then Xbox game, Alien Hominid. His style of animation is very loose and cartoonish, a style I considered mimicking for this project, before deciding to create characters that were something in between Fulp and Phillips: realistic but flat, funny-looking, but anonymous.


 M. C. Escher
My animation might look nothing like the mindtraps of Escher, but the main reason that I left all the people same color was that they way they seemed to morph and merge when they passed eachother reminded me of Metamorphasis pieces, where the birds and lizards passing eachother change shape in a mind boggling way. more about Escher..