STUDIO II

23 January 2020/Class 3/Ms.Prarthana Patil

We started the class with a conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. Kublai Khan interrupts Marco Polo during his narrations because he suspects a pattern in his accounts of these wonderful cities he has travelled to, he asks about him to name a city which is filled with all sorts of surreal elements in it. Marco Polo is clever enough to reply with fact that every city has a connecting thread and are born out of a certain desire and fear. When Kublai Khan mentions that he has neither fear nor desire for anything, Polo assures him that the cities are built with the same promise which often don’t hold up.  

We are to draw compositions which depict the city. These compositions should have a sense of space and elements from the city along with our own interpretations based on what we understood after reading about them.

We discussed the pictures we took to capture Gestalt’s law in nature. There was a ‘conflict of interest’ when different people had different opinions about each law (opinions are acceptable for other things but definitely not laws). We were told that we don’t have to go out and look for a composition to suit our laws, we have capture moments and placement of elements which give the viewer a sense of the law or what we intent to capture and find balance in the composition and not the elements in it.