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Boundaries and Thresholds

Art Direction, Model Making, Videography, Installation, Photography
 
I began this project by investigating the interior and exterior of an object void of its context. I asked myself what a Cricket Pad is out of ‘place’. By making a stop motion of its deconstruction I had given the object a visceral quality, where the interior and exterior materials behaved differently.

I related this to the person and how my own interior and exterior related to each other. I was drawn to the idea of defining the liminal space in between these two places, labelling this a boundary. I interrogated ways people traversed boundaries with each other, documenting their interactions, making films and drawing stop motions. My findings revealed with the outermost part of their body, people step and reach to physically cross boundaries. All of these experiments led to making my own boundary.I noticed moments when the boundary is a feeling rather than a physical threshold. 

While studying at Hooke Park I got the feeling that where I was didn’t belong to me, I had crossed a boundary. In response, I wanted to claim some of the woodlands, and call it my own. Starting with paper models, I created curves and experimented with different joinery methods. Taking this idea to the site led me to make slots in the wood to curve the pieces around trees, forming an enclosed space. This was where I could reside, in a space that previously I didn’t belong. Now that I factoned my own boundary, I pulled it into new spaces, seeing how I could recreate the sensation of passing through. This project I felt most in tune with myself and my process, I was repeatedly making, documenting, and reviewing.

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