gesture drawing - ben sang

When we are somewhere, we take in more just one plane of view. We are surrounded completely and the surroundings heavily impact our focus. We are constantly creating different kinds of gestures that we are aware of as well as those that we are unaware of. The external factors of our environment oftentimes become the stimulus for which of our many gestures we are especially attentive to at the time. I wanted to experiment with the idea of a gesture through my own various interactions to an environment while including the environment itself in the gesture.

In order to do this, I wanted to go somewhere that served as a location with a view or one that would be considered to be an outlook. After deciding on the top of the college's football stadium bleachers, I used a 360 degree camera to taking in the surroundings that I was most immediately aware of. Where was my head and body moving? What was I paying attention to? How was I positioned? With each repetition I focused on small gestures of my own that I wanted to focus on. These gestures varied from taking in the a view in general to constantly keeping my eyes down for fear of making eye-contact with anyone that might be able to see me standing or sitting far above them making weird motions with my phone.

I wanted to organize different gestures in a way that would make them all follow the same two formats: place, and relative dimension. Using the 360 degree created neat stripes.

What I find most interesting about these images is that depending on the gesture being carried out, the images become quite wildly abstract despite being achieved in the same way.