Introducing the context: a Car crashing into a tree, two people on board.
Playing with layering and transparencies to represent movement visually. Using photocopies onto tracing paper to increase the range of opacities and overlap layers of paper. Working at a 1:1 scale tow relate to the images as well as be able to mix and merge reality and grayscale visuals. Looking at chronophotography. Inverting images to replicate the look of mri’s.
Motion study of the back seat i.e. the bigger the speed, the
passenger’s body propulsion. The stronger the force, higher the apex of the trajectory’s parabola and the shorter the horizontal distance traveled.
Above, side view of our ‘site plan’. Below, top view. Three secon
nds split in seven intervals, therefore positions drawn at 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3 seconds.
Dividing and spreading time. Fluid rapid motion enabled through the use of flipbooks.
Translating the motion into a physical chain reaction.
Translating the motion into geometrical drawings.
Multi-layered reading of the event in terms of movement, time, forces, and reactions.
“Vaughan: The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event.� - Ballard
Traces left by the event long after it happened, fine residues travelling through the ground.