Reading the Spatial - Approaches to What

The lecture part of this task was a really interesting look at spacing and what space is, how it can be used and how important it can be.

A good example of spacing used in art was the 1533 Painting "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein. The painting as been the subject of many debates due to the items involved in the work. Aside from the spacing of the two characters involved, the most eye catching piece of the painting has to be the 'squashed' skull in the middle bottom of the piece. The spacing factor of the skull isn't the way it is placed in the painting, But how you are placed when you view it. From the photograph the skull has the stretched look to it, But if you were to move the skull becomes in focus. The major debate of this piece is the idea that it pictures everything to do with wealth: Globes, nice clothes, books. However the hidden skull seems to be a underlying message of no matter how different life is for some, how rich or how poor, we all face death and that it's always there wherever we may be ourselves. 


The next part of the lecture was looking at the 'Spatial'. What is Spatial? What is space?

The Spatial is the relating to or involving of having the nature of space existing or happening in space. Space on the other hand is distance between points, objects or events. 

It was really insightful to think of the spacing of art through thing like comic panels, how the spaces between other panels, speech bubbles and placing of the characters can change the over all mood and tone of the story or moment. 

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TASK :
Approaches to What?
Create a sketch/drawing/comic page based on your interpretation of Georges Perec's 'Approaches to What'

These were sketches alongside quotes from the extract of Approaches to What. I wanted to focus on doing sketches rather than a full drawing, as there were so many different quotes that gave me funny little ideas. I think my favourite ones are the "Question your spoons" just because I had an image of a guy staring at cutlery confused or someone surrounded by floating spoons as well as the one about "Our lives in a dreamless sleep" as it made me think of the movie Inception and to do some kind of panel thing with thought bubbles within thought bubbles. 

                  (The images can be enlarged by clicking on them to read my notes/ideas) 

References :

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spatial

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/space