For this assignment, the act of writing seemed more relevant to me than an audible use of text. Hence I decided to make the act of writing directly the central element of my study, playing with the camera angle and hand placement in terms of how the text being written is gradually revealed.The sound of the pen on the paper added a for me important texture. The text being written is based on the text that was assigned in that I read the assigned text a few times and then proceeded to write out, from memory, the words I recalled.
The interspersed hand movements alternate a softer and a more abrupt quality- in the gestures chosen, as well as in the movements the hand draws. I was interested in exploring the (3-dimensional) space above the ground, which is the paper/writing.
Feedback guidance questions:
1) What does the hand movement read to you as?
2) How do you view the spatial relationship between the movement and the writing?
3) Is the act of writing effective or literal?
4) What do you think of the sounds of the pen on paper?
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flow/water
mesmerized with admiration
male (though the movement is so flowing, and your hand so markedly feminine with all the jewelry, that I probably wouldn’t have read shikara as male if the word “HE” were not underneath and if I didn’t have some familiarity with mudras)
From the first appearance of suchi through tripataka, I get more unclear about the meaning of the mudras...it seems like it should relate to the words underneath the hand, but I find the movements hard to read. Dynamically the phrasing is suffused with a flowing quality that is interrupted once or twice (and marked by a musical change), which could imply a shift in emotional tone or narrative.
2) It seems like the movement probably embodies the meaning of the words written beneath it.
3) I really like the positioning of writing as an act of dancing in itself. It reminds me of Sara Wookey’s work, “Love’s Geography.” If you wanted to further explore this, it could be interesting to work with how meaning is unveiled: for example, by selecting and writing words out of order, implying a range of potential meanings along the way, until a sentence’s full meaning is revealed a the end. In terms of the actual words, I find "care" and "love" a little too declarative rather than evocative. The unusual sideways camera angle also makes it harder for the viewer to decipher, which helps take away from the literalness.
4) The rhythm and dynamics of the sounds of the pen was one of my favorite aspects about the study, and part of what gave the writing a level of abstraction over the words’ semantic meaning. I think it could be further developed!