Project: P/F
This project explores meanings of letters/words and people’s competition. Having researched in the anamorphic and perceptual art, I found lots of works also involving letters and typography. This reminded me of the P/F grades for students. The individual P or F means little more than a letter, but with the discourse, we humans attached meaning to these letters, which is also crucial for people’s life. “Where there are people who pass, there are people who fail.” This is the central message in this project.
Inspirations
I found many artwork/projects involving words and letters. It may be partially because of easier structure and more straightforward meanings, but also explores communication issues. These sparked my idea of the meaning of the letters “P” “F”, and show how interaction happen by the change of perspective.
Chris Dorosz uses acrylic paint to compose human bodies. According to him, “ I’ve been working towards creating a narrative of materials as the groundwork to explore changing ideas of human physicality.” So the colorful material he chose works to convey human’s composition, like particles of DNA, and changing physicality. This set me to think about materials to form the letter. I think the colorful appearance like paint somehow gives people a childish and joyful feeling, so I’m temporarily planning to use toy/lego figure readymades to tell different individuals’ competition. I want to try if a contrast can be created.
Sketch
Technical Methods
Stepper motors to control the up and down motion. I worry if too many motors are needed it would be too heavy to hang on the top, so I’m thinking of putting the motors at the bottom, either pulling down by threads or simply supporting the object and rolling it down.
An additional sensor is needed to trigger the motions. I think a distance sensor should be enough when put at the door way and detect one period of time when people pass (ex. 1-2 seconds).