WASHED OUT-WASHED UP
Nour Genena, Annie Como, Talia Stevenson
Drawing Movement/Drawing Space.
1/Movement:
We started out with the simple idea of washing machines. The spinning of the drum, the water, and the clothes was a literal interpretation of the movement prompt. Then we thought about what it meant to do your own laundry. It is typically the first chore your parents teach you to do on your own. So, from this, we thought about representing the movement between social standing, the transition between childhood and adult. We used a white sheet and wrote down things that make us feel like children, the things holding us back from the finish line of adulthood, even though we are already supposed to be there. The movement of the washing machine makes the ink bleed. Even though we think we’ve grown and tried to wash away our childlike tendencies, they still leave an impression.
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2/Space:
We knew that simply displaying the piece in the classroom would not fully communicate our narrative. We also wanted a space that was visually and symbolically interesting. Laundromats are a bizarre, liminal space to find yourself in. They are quiet, and boring, temporary, and give you a lot of time to contemplate your life and the events that lead you here. We also thought that there was an amusing juxtaposition with having an academic art critique outside of a academic/gallery space, and take it to a location that is typically associated with low income, and student life.
Concept drawings
These are the concepts drawings for all the possible ideas we had for this project:
3/Prototype:
We tried different kinds of pens and paints such as gouache, acrylic and markers but ultimately we decided on ballpoint writing pens. Ballpoint pens worked best because they bled just right without fading.
4/Progress
We invited people in our class and in the school to write their own sentences on the sheet and contribute to the project to get more thoughts from more people in the same life stage.
