When
I started this project, I initially found myself drawn to abstract
styled installations with kinetic movements. That was the
general direction anyway, so although my presentation movie was shot in a home
environment, the Corolla motion flower was designed to be an installation piece
for public space where people are in transit from one space to another. Not a
train station, that would be too busy, but a walkway in a gallery, or towards a
reception area, generally in a space where you wouldn't especially expect to
activate a response in a seemingly at first inactive object.
They
would not be displayed in isolation, but hung in various sizes on walls in
clusters, or at regular intervals along a walkway, corridor, bridge or
wall.
A
spectrum of colours could be used along with altering the timing of the closing
and opening of the flower to change the mood and reaction from subtle to
vivid.
The
language of the fan, the coquet set of movements that would in times past speak
secret messages to the onlooker, is now re-presented through the technology of
the arduino, I liked the link between the message and the arduino, but a future
adaptation could include the text printed on the poetry fan also changing with context.
I
have enjoyed this project, I think the process as a whole has definitely
improved my research techniques.
There
were also a few ideas/avenues I could not peruse but have put on the 'back
burner' for future explorations... Working with the heat sensitive paper,
and the possibilities that thermo chromic inks/pigments can bring to
name two.
