Final Project - Confessions (What I Didn't Say)

For this project the prompt was: Said it once, say it again. Remake a past project with your own twist.

I decided to do my own take on Creed's Measuring Histories project titled "Growth" that featured a circular canvas with old journal-entries written in a spiral.

For my project, I went through my journal entries from an old class that I took at Westmont. Obviously I had to censor myself for the purpose of the school assignment, as well as shortening the entries to stay within the word count each week. As I went through the old assignment, I was reminded of how many things I left out. Reading them reminded me of those times in my life and I started brainstorming about how I could extend the journal entry by both saying what I didn't say, and having reflections looking back on those times.

I chose a simple brown journal to start documenting these revised entries. I chose to write in an exaggerated manner of my handwritting, so that viewers can barely read the fine print. The most important words are the large sentences in all caps, that feature true the center of the confession I documented. The enlarged confessions, mirror Creed's circled sentences in his own journal, that also feature the heart of his writing.

After filling numerous pages with my entries and confessions, I went down to the labyrinth in the Westmont garden to achieve a circular shape. This called back to the canvas in which Creed featured his spiraling handwriting, and put it into 3D space. I then walked around this circle reading and confessing my own writing, and documented this with video. The video is like a performance to myself, that's why I chose to put music over it. The audience gets to see the act of me confessing, but not actually hear what I am saying until I reveal the bigger confessions to the camera.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/2382b1_9db3f7d7901b45e1a17da790bfafc563/480p/mp4/file.mp4