Singleton Thesis/Manifesto

Singleton

Thesis/Manifesto

A personal history with a landmark initiates an identity for the selected space. With the newfound identity, expectations are aroused to be collected on revision. The demands of prospects set forth reminiscence, forming a relationship between self and land.

Informational architecture through graphic design centers around form and location, mapping awareness between oneself and material.

(interaction)

The geographic position fixed with a memory entangles territory with belonging.

(belonging)

The sentiment concluded from a space provokes an intimate recollection for potential return.

(configured sense towards space)

The birthing of a landmark’s identity is distressed through time.

(the division between memory and present conditions of space)

Singleton Thesis/Manifesto

Singleton

Thesis/Manifesto

A personal history with a landmark initiates an identity for the selected space. With the newfound identity, expectations are aroused to be collected on revision. The demands of prospects set forth reminiscence, forming a relationship between self and land.

Informational architecture through graphic design centers around form and location, mapping awareness between oneself and material.

(interaction)

The geographic position fixed with a memory entangles territory with belonging.

(belonging)

The sentiment concluded from a space provokes an intimate recollection for potential return.

(configured sense towards space)

The birthing of a landmark’s identity is distressed through time.

(the division between memory and present conditions of space)

Related Quotes from Philosophers

“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” - Chuck Palahniuk (American Journalist)

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul” - Plato

The giving space will be 4ft wide. I planned three different models. The final model was the result of found errors from the other execution plans. My studies in Boston this past fall, brought to me informational architecture as a form of graphic design. I want to incorporate this type of design in my bfa while experimenting with active media.

First model: moving cubic planks... brochure included.

The second idea included 2 video montages...one theming locations from memory and the other themed from the revisit conditions. Drawing screens life size within the 4 ft area noted a problem with the screens being to close, making it difficult to view the pieces separately for accurate evaluation.

The Final model, includes one video with two separate audios, creating two separate feelings for the same montage. There are also two handmade booklets which include a map & cd, and separate mass-produced booklets for viewers. The booklets identify each location, my memory, and the personal experience of the revisit. The screen will be used by a family owned LG flat screen, mounted on wall in gallery.

I would like the show my memory in a created way, using geographic elements with color to display my memory as a hidden message within the print work. I collect the below booklet some years back, and will be using the same method in my piece.

The final dimensions of the booklet

Subjects Evaluated for BFA

I have decided to select locations of my past to revisit. I will photograph the landmark and awaken my own memories that drew the image of the location i was expecting, while comparing its present state to my expected experience.

Locations:

1. Yellow Creek, Erin, Tennessee

2. Ma's Past House, Erin, Tennessee

3. Nanny's House, Slayden, Tennessee

4. Vanleer Elm. School, Vanleer, Tennessee

5. Johnson's Market, Vanleer, Tennessee

6. Dad's House, Dickson, Tennessee

Notes 12.22.09

Locations with memories sit still, preserving expectations.

Locations of new adventures, move rapidly, pushing expectations.

The places that have effected me are preserved in my memory, but present physical presentation does not match my expectations on a revisit. The ground and walls are the same, the energy and details have been erased and redrawn by another. Theses individual places are separate but tied together in space within my personal journey.

People have personal ties on locations and place expectations such as relaxation, self-awareness, and happiness on geographic spots.

A place you once felt belonging, you now feel as a intruder towards.

Notes: 07.26.09

Places- expectations & faith of a marked area.

We have expectations of places: home, school, lake, etc.

We have faith that the places will meet expectations.

We get in our cars and move towards a landmark, not always having facts to support our intuitions of the final destination. (travel, school, art shows, gym, park, whale watching)

Ex. Will the party be good or not? Some are discouraged easily of a place when they do not know what to expect (no proof of expectations), and may refuse a place.

Our expectations become these landmark's responsibilities towards us, a duty.

- to meet our desires while interacting with a place: seek out, comfort, inspire, & entertain

Is it easier to have faith in a known landmark than a unknown place or vice-versa?

- a landmark never moves, you always find it if you make to travel

-its a physical location which can be observed, your aware of its existence, its changes, and its actions.

- With religion, it is possible that one may find more faith in the church than they do heaven.

Heaven, Hell, and other mystical places, their duty to those of faith. They relate to landmarks, but I want to study the changes of a experienced place, and how those observed changes from time alter the "hot spots" duties for a individual (not mankind). How one may not seek a visit to home for comfort, but for purpose; to visit a old school which bad memories are connect to, and find new vibes.

Places of our past effect our expectations of the future.

- to enter, to exit, to re-enter

- to leave a mark on, to be marked by

Your history becomes marked onto a present place, the place in return, marks you.

repeat- return - recycle

Notes: 07.16.09

I know I am interested in landmarks birthing identity to us, rather it is home, school, or a field. I want to do a piece for my bfa that is interactive for the viewer, to connect with the subjects I evaluate in my research.