Learning Sprint 3 | Assignment: Calton Hill Field Trip
Our journey to Calton Hill is a journey of touch. The hardest part of this journey was deciding what form to take on our journey to the Calton Hills, excluding visual expression. An auditory expression was of course the simplest and easiest to think of, but it seemed a little banal to our group. We tried to use another way of expressing our journey and the sense of touch became our best option. As we would be doing a presentation later in the course, the sense of touch was the easiest sense to express in the presentation, apart from hearing and seeing.
The next topic of discussion was what form to use to bring the sense of touch to Calton Hill, and my group member Chenyan initially suggested using blind drawing. Blind drawing involves touching an object with your eyes closed and drawing the approximate shape of what you touch on the paper. This format was very interesting and we experimented with it in class, but when we realised that the final product still needed to be represented visually, we had to abandon the idea.
Jing-Ting and I both noticed the malleability of paper, and that if we used paper to topograph the surface of an object, the marks left behind could also be a way of expressing the texture of the object through the sense of touch. Soft tissue paper might also preserve the flavour of the plant sap. So we decided to use topography to complete the output of our trip to Calton Hill.
We recorded the objects we encountered along the way on paper, based on the trail we took up Calton Hill. This included the rocks, plants, ground and monuments on the mountain, and we also recorded some of the works in the gallery. The day we climbed was a windy day, so we were able to record the shape of the wind on paper. In this way, even those who have never been to Calton Hill can experience what is on the hill and what is in the gallery through the shape and feel of the paper we have preserved.
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