About
Undoubtedly the place where you live and are experiencing now, as well as the past places and others in future prospectus, contribute to the foundation of a persons perspective. I currently am a student living in Toronto, coming from a place that seems so much further and different from here. The art piece concept I am addressing is then a reflection on one of the many reactions to this experience in coming to “the city.” Upon arriving I had come to live in a place that felt foreign and unadaptable to me. When a person is exposed long enough to that feeling, unknowingly you begin changing and while unrecognizable to you, you are in fact adapting but in a means of survival. In a place that you made home but feel trapped in, in a place that transforms the lines and blurs them, this became a place where the individual turns and is converted into the masses. It is easy to forget and easily forgotten how particularly different each person, your person is, when one can blend so easily with the others. However there is one place that I am reminded of my individual, no matter how surprising and different each glance becomes, the mirror.
Singular Blur is meant as an interactive environment, one where the user of the piece (the individual(s)) is meant to interact in an environment where their presence will be individually and uniquely represented in a some visual aspect on a screen. That persons presence is logged for a period of time while others whom enter and interact with the space compile on top, again with their own individual design. This addresses the projects overall message and feeling by showing how each person is unique in their own way but as time progresses their pattern and that uniqueness becomes less and less dominant; eventually being engulfed in the mass of others and fading away.
