IDAT 106 Workbook: Ecology - Collage

The title of our first piece for this module was the "time-based photograph" where each person has to collect their taken images from the picnic and create their own "time-based photograph" expressing their personal and social interactions from that day. The photos collected were taken over quite a few hours and demonstrate the interactions between the picnic group.

All of the photos taken were from my point of view in the picnic, which helped when building up a collage of the area. Once I had the basic collage down of scenery I picked out the photos which had interactions and then focused on particular motions from the people in my group. In particular I found the gripping of the hand was the most common and interesting motion observed in the photos.

The first revision of my collage is as displayed below:

In this collage I tried to recreate the entire afternoon through a time-based photograph in one image, which is quite hard to achieve. By layering the differences in movement and expressions over time next to each other it is quite visual of some of the interactions that took place during the picnic. Alot of hand motion was involved in expressing views and opinions, as well as interaction with the environment around.

Personally I found this field trip quite handy not only for learning about the course, but about learning the people around me.