CPS_Week 04_Place

By Rhea Ahuja

Theme:

Place

Context:

Olafur Eliasson, an artist at Studio Olafur Eliasson GmbH transforms places into art. “Art can motivate people to turn thinking into doing.” This is said by Olafur Eliasson. He creates works for a large community and makes people feel overwhelmed and disconnected. This context game me an idea to transform a place into something else. Hence, making the classroom look in another world.

As the class went on, I looked around at everyone working and thought to myself, what is a classroom without books and computers and students. If I change the environment of the classroom, will it still look like a classroom?

Method:

I will take a photo of the classroom and of few of my classmates in it. I will take the photo into photoshop and try to change the place/environment. A classroom is a classroom with tables, chairs, books, bags and computers. If I change the carpet floor to grass, will it still be a classroom? If I remove the walls and place it in an outdoor environment, will it still have the feeling of an academic class? It will look more like a relaxed situation with nature. If I change the environment to underwater, it will change the entire perspective of a classroom. By removing, tables, chairs and computers it would look like in a new setting all together.

Small changes can change the perspective of the place. I will originally start with the classroom scene and try removing and adding different environments. The characters would remain, the place is the same but the environment will change.

Response:

I took a timelapse video of my screen showing the process that led me from a normal classroom to an underwater scene.