Pressure Project #2- Orlando Hunter
Posted: February 22, 2022 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Pressure project #2
For pressure project two I thought about how to incorporate my artistic practice using a dance film created in an urban garden with my dance collective Brother(hood) Dance! In order to create a revealing element within the film I wanted to use photography to illustrate urban growers in the community. To provide sensory awareness to the earth I engage participants by placing their left hand in moist soil to literally ground them in the moment. While lifting the leaf of a plant to reveal photos on the screen and picking up an apple to remove the photo all while the film plays as background, lift the leaf, surprise! Another photo. You only get the surprise if you stay grounded.
Keep your left hand on the soil.
Pick up the apple for nutrition.
lift the leaf for relief.
Always leave on a high note.
Using the Makey Makey I curated the moist soil to connect to the literal earth on the device which serves as an electronical grounding for the full experience. The apple as the down arrow symbolizing the digestive process which is a downward process to revealing the picture on the screen to illustrate those who grow the nutrition in my neighborhood and the up arrow indicating how house plants give you an upward boost in your wellness from mental to spiritual health.
On the front end I have a movie player playing the dance film. To keep the back end hidden I used a user actor. In the user actor I conducted the change of pictures circuit by using a keyboard watcher to indicate up and down. Then I needed to trigger these functions which in this case up equals plant leaf and down equals apple, soil equals. I had to shift the value for the down arrow so that Isadora knows to signal the photos onto the screen. I also created a trigger delay so that the up arrow would know to switch out photos a specified time within the picture player.
