Corridor

I wanted to carry on my idea of  how different areas are annexes to the north and south banks of the Thames. I liked looking at bridges and how those bridges forge connections and allow these areas to flourish. Yet when I was developing these ideas I realised I was going into an area that I've explored alot in past projects- Mapping. I wanted to avoid my work becoming too repetitive and boring, which I think can happen quite easily with me because I can often play it a bit safe. So instead of mapping around London I bought my work even closer to home, well my new uni home.

The halls I'm in is split up into lots of flats of about 6 people. In my flat, all 6 rooms lead off a main corridor. As I can't start messing about with actual rivers, as they're more often than not quite big or heavily used in London, I wanted to carry my ideas over and think about this corridor as the 'river' in our flat- our rooms being annexes to it. I asked my flatmates if they could imagine the corridor was a river and they had to find a way of getting from one side to the other using only what they could from their room.
I made an animation of how they got on. I like the way that each person chose a slightly different way- Thom made a boat out of a bin, Laura used cusions, Dan and Megan chose to use books as stepping stones and Claudia made a bridge out of her patchwork quilt. And even though both Dan and Megan had the same basic idea, they carried it out in different ways- Dan laid out his stepping stones before hand and Megan did it as she went.  
So I'll shut up now and here's the short film.