My Intensions for Interlude B was to go back to the second project that I did in a group. This project was centered on fabrics as a representation of life in the way that our emotions work. We concentrated on putting together a booklet going through the stages of life through the colors, patterns and textures of fabric. At each page, when a new fabric was presented we quoted from famous authors and movies better explaining the fabric and its intentions.
In Interlude B I decided to link various fabrics to nature because I believe that we are automatically attracted to things that represent components of the natural world because it is part of our human instinct. In this video, I arranged fabrics in multiple groups portraying each a component of nature. Wind, Plants, Water, Snow and Night were the categories that I focused on. The fabrics that I used to represent the wind were mostly simple and flowing in one direction. This was to emphasize the idea that the wind in powerful but it is discrete and we cannot see it. The second category was concentrated on the plant life in nature and the spring. I chose fabrics having to do with flowers and fields. The next category was about water in which I chose fabrics that were simple, voluminous and moving in one direction. These fabrics were more textured and rough than the wind because I wanted to show that water can look different depending on where it is. I wanted to portray the snow and the cold through white and textured fabrics. The final category was the night which I thought was perfect as an ending because it represents darkness and the end of a day or in my case, a life. The fabrics I used for this category were representations of the stars as well as darkness.
With each of these categories I put sound together with each group allowing the viewer to get more immersed in the idea of fabrics deriving from various themes in nature. I chose sounds of wind, birds, water, snow storms and night sounds. Lastly I distributed five sheets of paper explaining the origin and history of the fabrics that were in the video.
