Further Developments

Since I last made a post on this blog I have made a sizable amount of progress in terms of my system drawing. This post is to show you the different ideas have had and how I am planning to continue. Firstly after finally finding a way to access photoshop I produced the following collage image:

This image was developed from the publisher image shown previously, and was built to focus on the various movements made by the participants, specifically focusing on their hands as this is the area I have chosen to study. This meant overlaying certain images to show multiple movements at the same time. Once I was happy that this was a coherent image that displayed everything I wanted, I moved onto the mapping of certain elements of the picnic, using Illustrator. I started by trying to develop a number of different ways that I could use lines to communicate my ideas. This is shown below:

I then tried to attach each of the mapping ideas to one of these ideas and then apply that to the collage of the picnic. The results so far are as follows:

Key:

Light and Dark

Fast and Slow movement

Time (Order of time taken)

All

Without the collage this mapped and image as follows:

Light and Dark

Fast and Slow Movement

Time (Order taken)

All

However after viewing all of the maps together I realised that having the two line notations makes it difficult to identify which lines refer to which form of notation. If I remove the light notation however the image makes more sense. Also the light notation is awkward to understand as it suggests that the different lines of the same thickness mean something different which they don't. Without this notation my mapping looks like this:

Therefore I think I will rebuild the light layer and notate it somehow different. I also still have to notate the image with something for quiet/noisy, and hard/soft. This will be demonstrated in my next post.