APD - Wk05

PLAY AND FORCES

Context

Inkblot tests https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/HEMCR/.

These tests are supposed to indicate what kind of personality one’s have based on their view of the inkblot drawings that are presented I front of them. When presented by these blobs, random drawing, it encourages the brain to try and take the most obvious points from the drawing to relate it with something that they’ve seen before. I took this idea of trying to find a figure or objects from random patterns.

Method

Take photos of water drips on my shower walls and export them to Procreate.

Response

I randomly took photos of the water drips around my shower walls. There are no particular space or pattern that I after. At first, it was quite hard to find any recognisable silhouette or figures on the water drips, it took me a while and almost giving up the idea before I fi ally found my first recognisable pattern. I decided to limit my imagination in order to find the common ground for the patterns. A head, long arm, and legs. It got quite easy for me to recognise certain patterns and shapes after staring at them for quite a while.

Reflection

The relation of this work and the force, it that instead of depicting what it’s like for water to drip down the walls, I decided to use them as they are holding themselves up on my walls. Given the unpredictability of the water patterns, I really thought it would be easier than what I’ve experienced. It probably took me around 15 minutes to find and draw my first object. The fish-skeleton. I tried to draw some lines with different colour to reinforce the idea of the shape fluid. And then I found the mermaid that correlates with it.  

For the next few photos, I spent around 10 minutes with each of them without finding any objects that I recognise, but then I play with the idea, what if I have a specific subject that I look for to narrow my view and thinking. Once I decided to draw figures specifically, it limited the patterns that I look for, therefore making it easier to connect the lines and put together a wonky figure. It’s almost like looking at star constellation and try to find out what kid of patterns are they making. I fid it to be a good practice I terms of figuring out many possible poses that a human could do. It’s ot the most proportional, and certainly not the most normal poses. But that’s the beauty of the unpredictability of the water force, I would say.