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To Make a Line
'To Make A Line' is a video that documents a journey, the virtual recreation of planned a holiday. It is made up of still images (the majority of which are taken from Google street view) and also a voice over, communicating an experience of a journey.
This journey and project began when I found a travel guide book, previously owned. From this, I had the outline of a family’s plan for a trip to Japan. I studied this book, I gathered every word written, corner folded, place circled and map marked. I wanted to put it together to form some sort of a picture. After figuring out everything I could from the guide, I was able to put together a schedule of how they spent most of their days. I then decided to try to take this journey myself, without actually going there.
I dedicated one of my days for each of theirs. I ‘walked’ through streets in Japan, on street view. I looked to social media, finding posts about places that they visited at the time that the people I was following also did. I kept a written diary of these experiences, collecting images and words. Recording the posts I read from people online as people that I met along the way.
My journey started out as a way to figure out who these people might be, and what they might have done. As it progresses I become more unsure about the reasoning for my following, and I become more concerned with the challenges of trying to understand place in a short period of time, referring to both people travelling and doing the things the travel book told them to, as well as my own frustration of dealing with place at such a distance.
'To Make A Line' is a video that documents a journey, the virtual recreation of planned a holiday. It is made up of still images (the majority of which are taken from Google street view) and also a voice over, communicating an experience of a journey.
This journey and project began when I found a travel guide book, previously owned. From this, I had the outline of a family’s plan for a trip to Japan. I studied this book, I gathered every word written, corner folded, place circled and map marked. I wanted to put it together to form some sort of a picture. After figuring out everything I could from the guide, I was able to put together a schedule of how they spent most of their days. I then decided to try to take this journey myself, without actually going there.
I dedicated one of my days for each of theirs. I ‘walked’ through streets in Japan, on street view. I looked to social media, finding posts about places that they visited at the time that the people I was following also did. I kept a written diary of these experiences, collecting images and words. Recording the posts I read from people online as people that I met along the way.
My journey started out as a way to figure out who these people might be, and what they might have done. As it progresses I become more unsure about the reasoning for my following, and I become more concerned with the challenges of trying to understand place in a short period of time, referring to both people travelling and doing the things the travel book told them to, as well as my own frustration of dealing with place at such a distance.
