As the group has recently been working on completing the writing of the texts, the subject focus of our meetings has shifted from images to texts for the time being. After Maryam and James helped us restructure the texts the previous time, they were finalised in five editions and sent off to the printers for layout and printing on schedule. We chose to use blue text on a pink background for the typography and paint the exhibition space walls in Klein blue to create a sense of mystery.
The group’s first image draft display
The group’s final image draft display
When it came to naming our display, James provided us with the following keywords:
- Nature’s Canvas: Empowerment Through Art
- Evolutionary Voices: Resisting Enslavement
- Art of Survival: Educating Through Nature
- Animal Allies: Empowering Evolutionary Narratives
- Resilience Revealed: Art, Evolution, Empowerment
- Attending to Transformation: The Uneven History of Old College
- Evolving Pictures of Old College
After incorporating these keywords and referring to the central theme of our display, we came up with the final title: Closet for the Curious: Uneven Evolutions; meanwhile, we also completed the layout and design of the images, from which our colleagues chose a few representative images for collage, thus forming our poster. On 21 March, the team worked to decorate the blank wall with the pictures. With the design and display over, we completed a large part of our work.
Group Display Poster
The remaining steps were to continue expanding on the details of the event. Our projected invitation list contains James, Maryam, Tessa Giblin, Haowen, Weile, Amy, Thais, Sim Buck, Lisa Williams, Rene Winkler, Liv Laumenech, Claire Walsh, Rachel Hosker, Alina Sinelynk, but the list is still in flux for a variety of reasons. However, seeing a fledgling campaign with a concrete framework and methodology is gratifying. The practical implementation of the project far exceeded our expectations; the confusion and fatigue of the past vanished as white light was projected onto our carefully paired wall of images.
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