To experiment with the sensory sculptures I made further, I wanted to capture sensory interactions taking place, activating the textures and sounds through touch. I began with laying all the sensory sculptures out, filming my hands going through sculptures at random - feeling them and creating sounds by squeezing, poking, pushing... I'd almost created a landscape of tangible colourful forms and the camera would follow the contours of the shape to document the touchy-feely interactions. To heighten the material ideas that I wanted to present through the immateriality of the screen, I used editing software to layer other videos of just the shapes which distorted and abstracted multiple textures on the screen which I felt was visually interesting.
I was later in a Green Screen workshop where I learnt the basics or setting up the green material, how to set up the stage lighting, screen, the exposure value and the cameras. After set up, we took it in turns to 'perform' in front of the camera to create an experimental piece which explored our practice. I decided to take along all of the sensory sculptures and filmed myself picking them up and exploring them through touch and trowing them off-camera, simultaneously whilst Danny and Abi threw sculptures over my head to each other and me out of the frame which explored humour and play. I initially didn't want to do the workshop but I ended up finding it a really interesting process and one I would like to experiment again with. I think it made me step out of my comfort zone in regards to performance and how it can be used to enhance my practice and activate the work.
The second part of the workshop was editing. We learnt how to remove the green background on our video using PremierPro, this was a tricky process at first but once I got the hang of it I think I could replicate this again in future projects. I wasn't sure at first on what imagery I wanted in the background of this piece, I did initially think of a playground or something relating to play but I felt as though this was too literal. Instead, I opted for my sensory abstraction video which I thought worked well as it showed the interaction up close and myself playing with the sensory sculptures on camera. Overall, I think this was a really different experiment and though not the neatest work I think it emphasised sensory dialogue in conjunction with play. I would like to explore green screen, as well as making work generally that can be viewed on the screen, further in my practice.
The full video can be viewed here: https://lucywinnicott.wixsite.com/artwork/sensory-textures
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