Atmosphere - Translating - Constructed Atmosphere
Seen in this way the research behind translating atmosphere is an equation.
Recognising a difficult to describe mood/feeling and making material, spacial, and aesthetic choices In order to construct a sharable version of the recognised atmosphere.
Individual Experience - The Creative Process - Scenography
Broad terms that have very specific meanings in this research.
Atmosphere. The aesthetic mood of a space. Hard to describe, but intensely present. Both personal and collective. The feel of a room that can only be retold through sensory descriptors. A theme. Atmospheres can be documented by Surveying the environment and paying attention to what and how you experience it. Collecting photos, materials, and stories are some ways to document an atmosphere as a maker.
Translating is Finding a creative way of describing what has been observed. Using different mediums to render what you notice into a personal understanding/sensitivity. This is taking the noticed Atmosphere (your gut feeling), comparing it to what you have documented and collected, and making choices. Translating is exploring and making choices. It is research. Everything you make is a choice - even deciding to not disrupt a natural environment is a choice. As an artist I collect tangible materials and inspiration. As a researcher I find film, dance, and theatre to be a wonderful source of knowledge. These works are all a collage of set, costume, movement, and light. A collage of aesthetics. The environment of film/theatre is Atmosphere.
Constructed Atmosphere. The purpose. In dance, we call it a motif, in cinema a logline. A central theme or conflict. The glue that holds the narrative together. It is the lighthouse guiding us back to why we make what we make in the first place throughout the chaos of the creative process. A theme, a motive, the tonic (home key), the home base of any type of composition. This one - very classical - the technique of being able to return home whilst in the very depth of work be it film, dance, or music is fascinating to me. The infinite amounts of variations one motif can process while remaining tonally in harmony. Constructing an Atmosphere is trying to find the motif behind that gut feeling. What artistic elements can come together to reproduce and share that sensation.
TRANSLATING ATMOSPHERES
An ongoing research and exploration of what it means to think and feel through mediums.
GUIDE TO THIS PAGE
The research is an ongoing curiosity of analysis, writing, watching, etc. This RC is a collection of those findings and experiments, some analysis of other work, some theories on the main topics, these also on top of my own work as a maker.
The squares are links to these explorations.
