Thoughts Animation
This project began as a response to a one day mapping project. I wanted to map an activity that is in one sense mindless but in another mindful. I began by mapping the number of steps I walk during the day. The act of walking is mindless - it serves the purpose of getting you from one destination to another but in that time your mind is active, whirring and thinking away. When considering the Thoughts animation I was interested in the central focus point where my thoughts are generated. This area is always particularly concentrated, thoughts are hard to distinguish from others, only fragments of sentences, words etc are apparent. It isn’t until they leave this central area and hit the peripherary that they are visisble as full thoughts and by this point a tension occurs: the thoughts become fully visible but begin to disappear to a part of your mind that you have to strain to access. In the animation the screen acts as the boundary between the peripherary and the inaccessible.
