As this project was about memory and childhood space, I was automatically intrigued. After a couple of exercises to polish my brain, I chose to draw some of my childhood spaces. I focused on space that I spent most of my time in, specifically, my room, a play ground under my building and more. After some thinking and drawings, I chose to stick with representing the play ground in a unique way.
In order to present my space with materials, I wanted to play around with realistic experience for the user, so, I wanted to create a pop-up card/ book that consisted of the play ground. For the materials, I thought of using an actual book but creating a double paged childhood space in it. In order to do so, I wanted to also use hard coloured paper.
Initially, I tried building the pop-up card but, it didn’t work as the patterns didn’t fall into place. Despite of the pop-up card idea not working out, I changed my plan to producing the playground space but on a hard piece of paper and to keep the essence of the real playground, I aimed to use the exact same colours.
While constructing this art piece, I used different forms of materials such as glue stick, various types of paper, scissors, paper cutter, and pencil. While making it, my goal was to make the exact same space by using exact same colour, same swings and the same position of the swings. As scientists have proven that some of us, only remember materials and objects through colours. Colours are like relatives that we end up remembering which I thought had a direct relationship with my childhood and memory.
