UNITE
PROF - DANIEL ROEHR
A5 - USING OUR HANDS
06/10/23
49.26048742019998, -123.25082245950983
A1 - Time to Align
A2 - Adding Dimension
A3 - Mapping
A4 - Above, At & Below Ground
A5 - Using Our Hands
A6 - 1 - Tactile Body Space
A6 - 2 - Flow of Experience
A7 - 1 - Forest vs Engine
A8 - 1 - Tuning In & Windplay
A8 - 2 - Sonicollage
A9 - Smell Notes
A10 - 1 - Taste Rave
A10 - 2 - Drinking Object
A11 - 1 - Seeing > Visual Thinking
A11 - 2 - Pattern—Re—Pattern
A12 - Summary
What is sight? More than just a window, it's one avenue among many by which we engage with the world. During our blindfolded drawing session, I was invited by a giant barnacle to get a sense of it or them as their three cavities echoed the absence of the soft guu that once called it home. I felt both confined by touch and yet liberated by the millions of "eyes" my skin provided and overwhelmed with what to do with only one hand and one tip of pencil. “There is no waaay I could capture this...” by which I meant that I couldn’t and needn’t capture it... using traditional methods.
Process
As I attempted to capture the barnacle's essence, a realization dawned on me: I wasn't just drawing the barnacle, but also the very hand that felt it. It seemed impossible to represent the object without also portraying the subject. In this liminal space, where the boundaries blurred, the object and subject melded, co-emerging and shaping one another. It was as if the barnacle and my hand drew one another, where the observer and the observed become one.
I enjoyed this a lot and while photographing the barnacle I had some fun with the sense of imagination that spilt from the last exercise. I would like to explore the landscapes of the barnacle further...