"They will see it"

Date: 23.01.2012
By: sadece
Name of the Technique: Cut Across

Name of the Work: They will see it.
Approach of the Technique: Surrealistic
Materials of Technique: Newspaper, Cable, 5 mm photoblog, screw, sales slip paper roll

Work Planning Steps

Communication takes place between minimum two people and in face to face communication, this period usually occurs both listening and answering to each other. In this project I want onlookers to be part of the project forwarding their message and communicate with people whom they may have not seen or met before. So, one sided communication will start. Each of the words or sentences they write will be recorded in the project’s brain – something like notebook, a long band of paper-. And at the end of the project, what I have will be some expressionist messages from people that I don’t know, one sided communication then finishes. So yes they will see you, what you write, what you say but relax, they won’t know also who writes what, you may tell your secret, revile against anything, you can be free, no need to hesitate.

Where will I say?
 I will say this message in an ordinary small coffee shop, in Galata.

To whom will I say?
To people, who just past there to buy coffee, or to order and drink coffee, having some time to go through any reading or visual material.

What are the conditions of the place?
The place is inside, so the conditions will be quite good for the material I am thinking to work with.

How will I exhibit my work?
It can stand so I will put it on a shelf, which is passed by all coming and leaving customers.

How can I improve my technique by considering these conditions?

I want my work to be interactive. That’s why I chose this expression way of communication. But this also brings about the risk of damaging the materials like falling down, being torn, separated.

Letting the viewers to look and also be part of it by writing, I have to fix it well, durable. I used strong glues to prevent from falling down. I could also use spray varnish to make it more strong and durable. 

What others think?

Onlookers’ Reactions- Comments- Toughts 

Sami:
I thought the paper is can be torn and put on the cables. What I think about the message is there is a information pollution, everybody is talking about something. 

Şehriban:
There is a consumption craziness and also verbosity.

Nisa:
By this work,a lot of people’s ideas will be collected in one thing. It would be beter if it was more colorfull.

Barış:

It seems like a time machine to rewind. It could be said like it is recording, storing in memory, written memory. It gives archive feeling. It could be done more colorfull or white cable could be used. 

Vesma:

It is nice, usefull, modern like Andy Warhol, it is like memocard, It could be good if clipsing the paper notes on the cables were available.

Silvia:
It seems that it is for storing your thoughts. 


Merve:

At first sight it reminds me first cinema machines. It is like a life, that peoples’ thoughts and feelings are gathered together and mixed each other. Different ideas combine and it is nice, vintage. I like the idea, visuality, but i didn’t get the meaning of cables. I like newspaper usage. Cables could be used to represent delivering, you are delivering your ideas by them. I like circle cutting of papers. So the whole work could be about communication.

Rebecca:

It is like fishskin. It seem like a fihs in poluted place. All of the light are mixed together like a complex city.

Nuha:

There is a deep idea inside. Circle cut papers remind me sea. It is like viewing with telescopium focusing lots of things, there are different dimensions. The work seems like film cassettes. It is like everybody’s something are getting together like a film. 

Doug:

Our world made up of diverse people and can be seen differently. I like that the two face are different each other. Everybody is different, there is no one true answer. 

Evaluation of the Project 

It was a bit difficult for deciding idea to put into practice. I wanted an interactive Project for onlookers, not just for looking but also contributing by somehow. At the end of this decision process I chose this idea.

After decision point, I tried to figure out how that kind of mechanism could work and I did sketch for the face I will work on it. I made some sketches for also mechanism and on that way the Project is also shaped. I tried first like photo machine mechanism for Rolling up the film. I punch the paper and with the help of spin it worked. But there was a problem, it attached sometimes and that makes the paper not roll. Also the punched holes maket he paper smaller. Then I agree on the last version of the mechanism. It was easier to write for onlookers and also roll the paper on other cylinder. 

After I decided mechanism, I began to prepare faces. I cut 5 mm photoblogs and covered it with newspaper. I punched circle shaped newspapers and separate them in terms of their blackness or whiteness. Then I glued them one on the top of the other according to their monochrome color to make the feeling of face. I attached newspaper as eyewinker and cable for lip. 

When both part of the faces are finished, it was ready to put the mechanism on it. So I fixed two faces and between them the mechanism on a wooden plate to stand up. I put some cables as hair. I didn’t put a lor of hair because it would make the system to complicated and difficult to roll the paper. So just for representative I put a few. It was also like thinking sparks. I used screw for rolling the paper so the onlooker would roll the screw which is also near the brain. There is a metaphoric usage of screw like scratching about, penetration to mind. 

So the Project is done. I put it in the cafe. I watched people looking and also writing on it. I learned their ideas. It was interesting that using of newspaper is directly making them try to relate with the idea. So if your material is newspaper there should be a reason. They are trying to see that idea of using newspapers and also for cables it is similar. Newspaper usage for example for some of them is something about politics. They are trying to find the message from that point of view. I didn’t think before that they will give that kind of messages to newspapers. So I understand that material you are using is so important while giving your message. 

They liked also the interactivity to be part of it. It seemed like a game. Their reaction was different from each of them, each of them liked different part of the Project. But there were also some agreements. They liked the work, by its visuality and also function (yes interestingly they said that it is a functional thing, usefull), newspaper usage and also cables were interesting for them. It was a surprising box to find out what happens there. So I take positive reactions to work. But for the message they understand there was some controversial points. Some misunderstanding was about the materials I used, newspaper and slip roll. Some of the people make connection with politics and information with newspapers of course it is not surprising if we think about why newspaper presents. I used for writing place a slip roll and one of the people, because she is also working as shopkeeper made connection it with spending like unnecessary huge expenses. People cared about the punched paper’s shape, circle and they gave meaning to that too like focusing life, people, what happens. But mainly they got the idea of communication and collection of unknown people’s toughts and feelings. Some found it like a film, some like a real life. 

In conclusion, I found out that material is so important while you are trying to give a message. When a Project is done also thinking the interaction between the work and onlooker, strenght is also important, because people really touch the work, they turn it around, look from every view and they touch and give attention even the points that you didn’t think before take their attraction on them. So the system you designed could be fallen down, Project could be damaged especially if you are not with them, while they are alone with the work.