Smalling/being smalled…title is a WIP – the way the body contorts when centered on itself. This is to say, there’s a focus on the motion of making oneself physically small, and that motion as one that can only occur when one is very much aware of their own body.
Capturing people (or myself) while physically making oneself small — either naturally (due to environment needs or lack of awareness), or artificially (forcing oneself into a small space intentionally.)
Not sure what output is here, have a few ideas:
- smallness as form and a formal quality of an object or person. Would probably be me shoving myself into tight corners and with a nicer camera setup.
- smallness as a kind of game? I don’t think I want it to be too game-y, but image segmentation is an interesting option and I talked very briefly to Leo and Golan about attempting to live-time measure how small someone has made themselves or how much their form has reduced. I would prefer not having to solely photograph myself so leaning towards this.
Some semi-successful and mostly not great or all that pretty examples of both of the above options:
Detection of small body on goofy prefabbed segmentation thing Leo sent me:
That, but in video: SORRY I DONT KNOW WHY MY NORMAL GIF SITES AREN’T WORKING
Ok. Now photos:
