Derive Findings and Experiences

I began my derive by walking toward the other end of the park. In doing this monotonous action of walking I got interested in the sounds made by my shoes on the gravel as I walked. I videoed this, but stopped after a while because kicking dirt/rocks is generally not loved by people around, and I was getting rocks in my shoes.

I stopped at a little playground that was fenced off and being worked on because I was attracted to a netted play structure. I did a quick sketch of it, though I got distracted by the noise of the workers machines. I met this artist in Tzfat and he would work with the sound waves of prayers to make paintings, this is what I did with the sound of the machines, but more fluidly just letting the pen as an extension of my hand go as it pleases to the sound. Then I began to draw the workmen and different things they were using or anything interesting I saw behind. With this I also took some sly pictures of them and recored sounds. After they began to sense the weird girl documenting them I turned my attention to a business man and the way his suit pulled and draped at different positions. I also saw another business man with a girl and drew his envelope like brief case.

I had exhausted the working men/people of the area and had thus lost interest. So I continued to the carousel next store, where I had originally wanted to go for my derive. I sat under a tree thinking that observing the carousel could be like a life and death thing, childhood and all its colors vs. adulthood and all its bills. However, my focus drifted to an old man who ran the carousel, and presumably had for years. I had a lot of difficulty drawing him without weirding him out and capturing him from where I was, so I tried to take pictures, and was eventually able to once I was joined by a group of other girls from class. One thing I couldn’t fathom about the man was, should he had been working there for so long, how he could listen to that loop of children’s songs without going insane, but I got the sense he enjoyed being around the smiles of children that mimicked the bright colors of the carousel.  I also recored the sounds of that area, mostly I was aiming to hear the music from the ride, but when I played it back it sounded like a part of a Pink Floyd song for The Wall, I think it was the one where the man yells for the kids to eat their supper or they wouldn’t get any pudding. I bringing this into my project could be interesting mixed with the sounds I recored.

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