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Daisy//Inspiration & Initial Research

 Inspiration

I am interested in looking into the reclamation of spaces by the natural world with plant growing over worn-down human spaces that have been forgotten. Looking at the intertwined relationships that appear in these new ecosystems. With this I am interested in distancing the human by exploring how other animals see the world, looking at footage through their eyes. Also, the science fiction outlook of how animals may evolve within the human rubble altering their physicality, working with found footage I want to explore this idea playing with eyesight.

Found footage on pixabay - using footage that gives the feeling on being at the same level of the animal, so for small animals low down or for birds an aerial shot.

 



Research

Article looking at how animals see: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-do-other-animals-see-the-world.html

Sehen Sie sich, wie ein Tier Sie sieht! (See yourself through the eyes of an animal!) - Klara Hobza’s Animaloculomat



Eduardo Williams video work that I put a screenshot of bellow is of a tiny pill camera that he swallowed, and it filmed the journey through his system. I’m interested in the way e shows this different view within the circular crop which fits with the tube-like channel that is went through and is also connected to these circular long shots of landscapes. This connection between the body and its surroundings

Idea

This image is just a test playing around with this image of a fox using the fisheye lens sort of distortion to try and give this feeling of being inside the eye of an animal. I want to try and play around with the idea of using found footage that moves around and have this centre circle that’s in proportion and focus move with the movement of the film to represent the eye. Like how when we look in another direction, we move our eyes ever so slightly before we move our physical head.



 

In my practice I am currently exploring the idea of what a post-human nature would look like. Confronting the reality of our destructive behaviour on the planet and the repercussions this will have on future species. I am interested in the line between science fiction and science fact to guide my process. So, keeping up with new scientific discoveries and advancements in the understanding of non-human viewpoints helps to form my work and gives a fuller understanding to the multispecies relationships of humans and animals. I am also influenced in my practice by my childhood, having grown up in a rural area surrounded by miles of green. To create my work, I use performance and mixed media to create sculptural works that feed into animation and video outcomes.

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