Michelle Israel 2/3/08

This week was a little more difficult for me - creating a subjective space is harder than I thought! Looking through my photographs and research of my space (the Pitti Immagine bus stop), I found that some common themes in all of them are: age, remembrance, mystique, light, shadow, and vintage. So I decided to try and combine these themes into my subjective drawing of the space. I am focusing on a door, to the right of the bus stop, which is always locked every time I visit. I always wonder why it is locked and what is behind that door. I want to carry on the mystery of this locked door in my drawing because that is what intrigues me the most about the space. Accordingly, I will create a drawing in black, white, and yellow to try and capture an effect similar to that of an old photograph. I will blend the charcoal and pastel to create a blurry , mystical effect to go along with the recurring themes from my research.
Additionally, I will try to capture the light and shadow of my space, because that is how I came upon it (I followed the Florence streets where the sunlight seemed brighter until I found the bus stop). Hopefully, with the addition of drastic light and shadow, the great mystery of the door will seem more evident, and so will my personal connection with the space.