Journal Entry Week 1

Journal Entry 1 After many hours with a sketch pad in hand my first week of virtual environments draws to a close.

From these hours of thought and careful consideration I have emerged with the skeletal framework of a concept for my lantern. The conceptulisation of this concept was greatly aided by the readings and lecture of the week.

The reading on forms and shapes in nature was of special help to me as it directly related to my biological concept of natural selection; with the examination of the changing forms relating to the theory of Darwinian Evolution. This examination aided me in visually expressing my concpet, as I had been struggling with representing such a vast timescale. What the reading really made me question was the distinction between man and nature. I found myself asking the question why when we associate a spiders web, its creation, with being natural why man made structures are un natural, because after all man is just a construct of nature? So, this reading really forced me to reconsider the clear distinction I had always held of what is natural and what is not.

I also really enjoyed the lecture on Jackson Pollock and found the idea of fractals fascinating. I would love to try and incorporate the concept of differing scales forming a whole in my design. I have placed an image of one of his works bellow.

IMAGE: A painting by Jackson Pollock demonstrating the idea of fractals. I also like his choice of colours and whilst they are individual the seem to blend together to make a whole