Hillary

So I realized that I'm a big dumby. Last week I had internet issues and didn't post my blog. I apologize for being stupid, and I'll try to make up for it this week.

For the Bodies in Film project, I started out with not many ideas of what to do / where to go with the project prompt. During class for the experimental video sketch, I decided on a whim to film a woman walking down the sidewalk near the Arno. When I put this video on my computer, I was immediately drawn to the idea of stalking, and the idea of what is public / what is private / who has control over that / where and how these seemingly separate worlds can coexist... So for the actual project, I created an "installation" of a private space, a woman's bedroom, with a projection on the scene of my stalking footage. After a million billion technology issues, I was really happy to finally have this project realized. I have more plans for the project, but they might be logistically impossible. I would like to re-project in a public space the filming of the first projection of my stalking/bedroom scene. Don't know how to work that out... Maybe someday it will happen.

As for the next project, I'm not exactly sure where to start. When I first heard Julia mention the word collection, I immediately thought of my obsessive collection of keychains I kept when I was a bambina. I thought maybe I could relate this to my thinking about public versus private, I'm just still working out how to do so. I have yet to do the mind mapping, so this could lead me in a completely new direction. I guess I'm really just up in the air with this project... If I don't use the keychains as a starting point, I would like to explore maybe using something more recent in my life. Maybe I could collect everything I use in a week and do something with that. Boh. For now I'll leave my options open and dig deep to find what I'm all about, what obsessive collection really describes me.