proposed video with drawing

as I am working through my visual proposal, I am fairly certain that I wanted to have a room of just this one screen - showing my zooming in and out of my drawing (like how I posted on instagram - and what dan suggested) - and I wanted this room to be immersive in a different way to the main room - in a semi-dark room, with these 'nature' sounds (or the others, from NASA's golden record) (which I know has copyright issues but in a proposal under the university.. should be fine for now..), I wanted to viewer to be able to image their own narrative when listening to these sounds (which I find quite terrifying) (and also speaking to their conceptions of nature when they hear these sounds - I know I am thinking of quite typical images of these animals) but I hope they are able to find new imagery whilst looking at the moving image of the drawing... and also to see new landscapes within this landscape of the drawing like I had the joy of exploring during the making of it..

partly I wanted this room because I was afraid that viewers will miss the abstract details in the drawings when it was originally a digital drawing (and you have the ability to zoom - and I didn't want to have to present them on tablets or what not, feels strangely too digital) and this is the dilemma that dan was asking me about - how to present the digital drawings. if it were printed out, would it feel fake, like it's trying to be something it's not?

after recieving those prints the other day though, I was super happy about how they looked - I was surprised they still retained their 'atmosphere' if you could call it that, but also added onto it another layer of.. something, something you only get with something physical, in your hands. and the type of ink/paper I chose for the mounted drawing was amazing at holding the darker parts of the work, almost giving a velvety depth.

compared to the digital drawing, they just have a different presence.. I feel that the digital drawing is immersive because when it is a flexible digital file you could think or experience it at the full size of the screen, and in turn it could feel like an infinite size, and you may not feel that there is a physical edge as much. reciecving the print above made me realise that the physical edge there is very present, and it has the same effect as a small painting, it pulls you in more, I think, rather than wrap around you like the digital image...

I really liked the way it looked as a print... but I also really want this room to happen. Could I do both? if I only have the drawings as video in this room - I would have a lot of bare space on the walls. but I have a lot of photographs (in colour) I'd like to present as well. Perhaps some collages? I'm not sure at this point... maybe I should make more? I know that in the meeting zoë said it's a possibility that the works in the proposal might not be finished, but that would be okay given that the proposal is clear on what sort of work it is proposing.. I'll have to think more about this.. I was planning on making one final drawing and even some text and now I'm thinking of collage - I really need to process this a bit more.

I thought the first draft meant I was almost there with my proposal but in reality I'm a long way off - so close to the deadline - I haven't produced something that I am proud of yet - and I really need to push myself extra hard, more than I have been, to achieve something I can look back and feel happy about. today, I layered the sounds (https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/sounds/) specifically the ones titled 'bird, hyena, elephant' and 'wind, rain, surf' onto my second drawing (I really like these titles as well - so strangely clear, matter-of-fact, scientific but also ambiguous, really has potential of using this 'list' form in my text maybe? if I'm doing text), I really liked how the combination turned out - and I layered the transparent image I took from the work of
Refik Anadol - 'Melting Memories' - which was the winner of the Lumen Prize 2019 - I hope that's ok - to depict what I'm thinking it could look like in my mind.

as the original drawing is A4 / rectangle ratio and the screen is more square, the sides had to be cut off - and during the cutting off I actually quite enjoyed how the drawing was spilling out from the top - or just at the bottom.. I think there's infinite amount of things I could do knowing about this spillage with transparent images... (I could do so much playing around with nature imagery - mimicing a large glass window etc...)

but anyway, I proceeded to crop down the sides and here is a screenshot from the 'experiment' video to show what it could look like as a proposal (I think I will include it like this - of course I could do this with all my other drawings and other sounds but this is just a proposal I guess - a start)