The first one I tried in this exercise was the suggested soap in the sink activity. I started off with green dish soap then went in with my orange shampoo. After realizing that I couldn’t control the patterns made, I decided to leave it to chance. The way the colours reacted with each other, not blending unless provoked, and how the patterns continued to shift as gravity took over was an interesting display of temporary line-work.
After playing around with the soap I decided to experiment a bit with ink. I dripped a singe drop in hoping it would mix with the drops of water sitting on the walls of the sink but it only made one solid black line. I then got close and blew at the line of ink and to my pleasant surprise this happened. It was as though small patches of sink became ink-phobic so to speak and in those patches there were small lines like the veins on a leaf. I love experimentation with different mediums and sometimes very interesting things happen. Like with the soap as time went by the lines changed and so the second image is from a few minutes later.
Next I want outside to look for natural temporary lines. At first I wanted to take a picture of the circular ripples in the pool but became entranced by the reflections in the water instead. I liked how with the ripples the reflection is never still and is constantly changing and so I decided to use it in this exercise.
When I was outside I caught a glimpse of the shadow of a tree on the wall. I thought of how shadows change and move with the sun and how the wind blowing through the trees cause their shadows to shift around.
This exercise has helped me see things differently as to what makes things permanent or temporary and how things can change and develop due to time of environmental changes.
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