I looked at Alice Aycock's the Beginnings of a Complex... and the moving I'm doing is the Shining. This piece was all about how you looked at it, Aycock thought that the piece would be scary and people wouldn't want to climb it and would be forced to look at it from a far. The viewers actually felt intrigued to climb on it, despite the risks of falling. The installation made me think of a maze, since its full of dead ends either where you physically couldnt continue or the viewer would think the risk was too great. 
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these drawings are yours?
describe them.
the drawings are mine. the first one shows a roof plan view of the installation. the arrows show places where you can continue. you may have to crawl, but you can still continue. the lines with the dot at the end are dead ends (a space where a human can't fit).
the second drawing shows the empty facade. it also includes a quote on a cruel medieval ruler. the dashed lines is where i imagined where the "stair" was that alice was talking about. she didnt really want people to climb on it, so the spacing is very far apart, to discourage climbing. the photo shows how people will instead just climb straight up the facade.
the third drawing is a section through one of the towers. its through a ladder that leads no where. its a dead end in the vertical direction.
the fourth drawing is two sections through the shorter tower. the first one shows a ladder that leads to a higher platform, which is actually easy to get on. the second section shows the difficult part of the tower. a person can climb up the ladder and staddle the wall, which looks difficult to do and looks like you could fall. After going over the wall, you climb down the second ladder, only to get to a dead end, that seems like a small pit. that causes feelings of claustrophobia. OR you could walk to the other side of the platform, jump over the hole, and hopefully grab the ladder and climb the rest of the way down into the pit. you have a choice on this tower, but i'm not sure you would want either one.
the last drawing shows the tallest tower. there is a ladder connecting two platforms. how you reach it, i have no idea. im sure someone knows how to climb up a smooth, vertical surface, but to the normal person, probably not. the second ladder takes us from the ground, to nowhere, just a raise room with no door or floor. the third space is very low to the ground, it looks like the only way through is to crawl. i think this is one of those small space, that could be thought of as a cozy shelter causing people to enter or a claustrophobiac space.
all these spaces make me think of mazes and labyriths, even the fact that i have no idea how to reach some space is similiar to mazes. i know my metaphor will have to do with those ideas, which also relates with my movie the shining. something maybe along the lines of "the mind is a maze" or certain spaces are mazes, for example, playgrounds.
ok good start...
you are watching the shining, right?
did you do the reading?
you will find the maze again, right?
talk about the spatial qualities of the maze in the film...how is is framed (from above, from within...)
did you watch the analysis video posted on you tube?
this will help you as well.
yes, i saw the videos. i'm having a hard time coming up with a metaphor. i look at my art installation and the idea of a maze and i know they are "noun" types, so i would want to go in that direction. i also keep thinking back to the shining and seeing danny in the maze, once with his mom and another time with his dad. with his mom, its sunny and he is safe, happy, and looks at everything with wonderment. with his dad, its snowy and dark. he is running, afraid for his life. his dad reminds me of the minotaur in the labyrinth. for my site, i was thinking fort greene park, since i feel that place has both qualities.
maybe, the maze is an endless search...
found at:
http://www.labyreims.com/e-intro.html
"The labyrinth as metaphor
The labyrinth is often used as a metaphor, that is, in a comparison where the two terms of the comparison are identified with each other instead of being simply compared. In that way buildings, works of art (including writings), situations and any object considered particularly complex and inextricable will be called labyrinths or labyrinthine.
This is how the ancient buildings that were called labyrinths were called so through a metaphorical reference to the mythical labyrinth and to its great complexity, which made it inextricable.
Modern literature has frequently referred to the labyrinth metaphor to represent the very complex and often formless network of human relations and the inextricable individual situation which is contemporary man's. This metaphor usually refers to the mythical labyrinth, but the classical graphical motif is often used as an illustration. Again, the habitual ambiguity is present here.
Thus the classical image of the labyrinth design is part of the metaphor. That design, which is strongly structured geometrically (and rhythmically) brings to the metaphor a dimension of order, logic and finality, which is nevertheless ignored by authors who use it. Of course, that dimension is not readily apparent in the situation which the metaphor is applied to (which is why the metaphor is applied to it in the first place), but it is part of it and should be sought after and be found."
google- labyrinth metaphor
perhaps read a bit of borges...
google 'borges labyrinth'
you should also think about seeing this work from a distance vs being within it...
think about how the maze in the shining is framed...the model in the hotel from above...
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