CPS Week 1 -Observation

THEME:

Observation

CONTEXT:

A building next to RMIT building 100. Here's an introduction of the building: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/06/the-melbourne-building-with-face.html

The face on the building also reminds me of the yelling face of desert from the movie” The mummy”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ersxqFwDkWA (start from 1:40 for the smile and 1:50 for the yelling face)

METHOD:

Think of some ideas, chose the one I like more and make an illustration in photoshop.

RESPONSE:

I took this photo of the building with my phone without noticing something special. I simply like the curves and the design of that building. But when I was looking for something interesting in the photo album, I realized that the building actually has a face on it. I thought is was a coincidence (that would be creepy) but then understand that is was done on purpose by the designers and architect.

The mummy sand face made me think of two ideas:

A) a building with a human face has emotions, when he is angry, he will spit out the glasses of windows. The air pollution may make him uncomfortable. B) a building has a face represented the employees/ students’ common emotion when they were in the building. Their emotion is too strong that they gather together and showing on the building.

I like the first idea better and decided to make an illustration of it. My illustration turned out to be a manga style, maybe I could try different style and try different type of buildings or houses as my characters.

In the process of finding inspirations, I realized that there is always something we are not paying attention to but it is actually interesting. And if we see something from a very long distance, it will not be the same as we look at it very closely.