Today was the day everybody got together to present their various installations, films and whatever elses for the Mediator project. There were some really interesting, really varied bits and bats from borderline incomprehensible but fascinating bits of film, things that you had to crawl in/ around, things you could draw on, things you could be comprehensively baffled by and one thing that made people feel nauseous from a range of about 10 metres - which surely has to be a significant achievement for what is, at the end of the day, an architecture project.
Our 'light in a dark place' or 'rose in a box' project came together really well - it took quite a long time from initially going on the site visit and extensively distilling all our various ideas to coming up with a solution for what our installation would actually look like - even once we had settled on what we thought was a pretty simple idea, there was a huge amount of minor decision making and endless fettling to be done. The basic premise that we ended up with was a tall black box with a small eyehole - when you looked in, you could see an illuminated rose which appeared to be growing from below, but was actually hanging upside down. This was accompanied with 2 books explaining how we had ended up at that conclusion and what it all meant. The project was a really interesting way of dealing with some issues and concepts which are inherently quite flowery and vague. As a group, I think we were all happy that the final result was something nice and simple - a relatively easy to grasp idea that could have ended up as overly complex arty nonsense that made no real sense to anyone.
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