Daily routines Cycle

                           This Cycle here shows two different morning Cycles

               This Cycle here shows different stages and different things people do during a day

I think that a daily routine Cycle is an interesting Cycle to monitor because it is a Cycle that we all do and that we all take for graunted. It would be interesting to set up a camera in all the rooms that I enter during one day and film every little detail. This could be interesting as it would allow me to appreciate the things I do that I would normally do in a rush. It may also reveal things or habbits or ways of being that nobody else has seen before except for myself.
I could also record my daily Cycle in many other ways such as;

- Making a flip book of the usual things I do during a day

- Taking a series of photographs of the activities that I do during a whole day

- I could get somebody to set up secret cameras of myself during different stages of the day. This would allow me to act natural and how I normaly would act as I would not be aware of being filmed. When people realise they are being filmed they automaticaly become artifical and present themselves differently are are more careful and aware of what they say and do

- I could hold the camera and film the places I go so then it becomes my view of my routines rather than somebody looking at me and my daily routines. I could also add sound to any of the films to make it more diverse and interesting. I would then need to think; am I going to add music as the sound? Or am I going to use sounds that relate to the things I am doing such as door creakes and footsteps?

Washing Cycle

                                            
This diagrame here shows the different stages of washing and what we do with the clothes after. I think this Cycle is realy important to our everyday lifes because it is constant and everybody takes part in their own washing Cycle.  We have luckily developed a quick and effortless way of washing our clothes using the washing machine. Before this everything had to be washed by hand in a big bucket. This must have been extremely time consuming and hard work.

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To this

 

If I decided to do the idea of the washing cycle I could;

-  Make a massive washing machine and put it in the middle of a room and I could set it so that it washed things in reverse so I could put clean clothes in and have them come out dirty or I could put dirty clothes inside the washing machine and have it spinning the wrong way and for the whole process inside to be going backwards to break the cycle

- I could get a room with glass windows all around and I could fill each wall with washing machines facing the outside of the glass and they could all be open with clothes in and foam and water spilling out so eventualy the whole room gets full of water. This would be a realy interesting instillation and people could only view it from outside. This would make people feel at ease as it would suggest the washing machine is broken and in controll of what it does itself. I do not think I would be able to produce this instillation as I would not have enough money to buy all the washing machines and I would also need to be able to find a room that I could use.

                                                     How does the washing machine work?

Water Cycle

                   The water Cycle is a natural Cycle and therefore it is out of our control

Cycle of Abuse

Here I decided to look into the Cycle of abuse because I think it is interesting to see the reason why people are abusive. Sometimes this is not noticed and when people commit a crime it often leaves others feeling confused and upset and angry. I think it would be interesting to interview people in a prisson and find out the reasons behind why they have decided to commit an act of crime. I could also record them and re create a room that looks like a prisson and play these recordings out so that the viewers would actualyfeel like they have walked into a prisson and are collecting first hand evidence of the reasons behind the crimes.

The Menstrual Cycle

This picture here shows the insides of a womens body and a way of visualy recording this. The inside of a body is a constant Cycle because it is constantly working and blood is constantly flowing without us even noticing it

A normal cycle is around 28 days, but a variation of a few days can be quite normal and variations from cycle to cycle is also normal. The cycle starts at the first day of bleeding and lasts the day before your next bleeding.

I looked at The Menstrual Cycle as a possible idea because this is the period of time that every woman would prefere not to experience and many see it as an unpleasent time. I thought that this would be interesting to record as it is not something that is usualy shared with others.

In order to record this I could;
- Make a flip book of a calender and put a star next to each date I start my period and this could show the consistancy or the irregular pattern and Cycle of my period

- I could make lots of videos of different women's blood in the toilet and I could display this in a small room and project lots of different videos playing at different times on all of the walls of women going to the toilet and changing tampons. This would create a disturbing and shocking effect and would make people who entered this room feel like they are intruding in their personal space and it would make the viewers feel uncomfortable. I could then also record lots of womes views of being on their periods and why they do not like it and how it makes them feel and play all of them at the same time to create a dramatic effect

I then decided to use watercolour as Tracey Emin does for her work on the menstrual cycle. Here is what the projected images on the wall would look like.

                                                                         

Here I have done a quick sketch to show what I would want this idea to look like if I displayed it in a room. I doubt that I would be able to carry this idea out becuase I would need to find a room and I would need to find a series of projectors. Also I would need to find a group of people who were willing to share this private information with me and anybody who visited the instillation.

 

- I could photograph lots of different womens facial expressions when they first experience starting their period

- I could make a questionaire and ask different women wether they believe that they should have to pay for tampons or wether it is their right to get them for free

 

I then made a copy of Tracey Emins paintings ^. I found it interesting to explore the depths of colour and the different marks.

 

 

Tracey Emin also uses the idea of the Menstrual Cycle in series of her work. She uses it in a griuesome way just like my idea above. Her work is disturbing to look at as it is intermate and revealing. I find her work extremely inspiring and I love the way that she produces sketches as if they are pages out of her personal diary.

Tracey Emin - my versions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gilbert+George Sarah Lozas and Kiki Smith

                                                                           Kiki Smith

                                                                      Gilbert+George

                                                                         Sarah Lozas



All of these images are from google images and they relate to my idea to do with the menstral cycle. I feel this because all of these artists display things that you would not expect to see and they all make you feel uncomfortable in simillar ways.