Emily

This past week I finished walking down all the streets in my mapping area. Even though it wasn't necessary to walk down every side street to get a sense of the area, I enjoyed pushing myself to go places where I wouldn't normally walk. Along the way I discovered so many sites of interest, many to which I would love to return. In fact, this act of exploring was so satisfying that I am going to push myself to explore as many of the streets of Florence as I can before I leave. I want to blow up my map (in separate pieces so it's not enormous) and mark my own monuments. I would love to have this personal record of Florence forever. From this exploration I will be working on my group's collaborative drawing.

In terms of the Body and Film project, I've decided to definitely go the direction incorporating the objects in the kitchen. One element from Miracolo a Milano that I'm using for influence is the "popping in" of objects that occurs when Toto acquires his magic dove and can make things come out of nowhere. During the movie-sketching time in class I had Taryn make a mess of our apartment's kitchen by covering the floors and the sink with food/pots/towels/etc. while I filmed from different points of view as experimentation. The most satisfying footage came from scanning the objects at a close range as if I were traversing a landscape and making the objects abstract. For my project I'm planning on making a stop-motion movie of the kitchen becoming overgrown with these objects. As the objects accumulate, the kitchen will throw open its pantry doors and spit out more dishes which will creep out into the rest of the house. The characters will be implied due to the pile-up, but no bodies will make an appearance. Basically, I need to make another mess of our kitchen.

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