The Weird Old Man

Our very first module at SEA was all interrogation of existing ideas. questioning all the activities ideas and values that have shaped our lives.

Unlearning of things which we had been blindly following. 

In the beginning of this module we read poems by Edward Lear, who was an artist author illustrator and poet from the 18th century,

All of us read a limerick by Edward, which we further decoded in the form of drawings. These drawing were about the a old man and his obsession of reaching the moon.

We tried creating spaces through these drawing which were representative of the old man and his obsession to reach the moon.

In the second phase of this, we took space out from the paper and created it real life. 

This drawing shows how the old mans obsession led him towards gathering everything around him and creating a enormous pile , which he would climb to try and catch the moon.

To create this space we thought of materials which would give our structure the sense of scale and something which could actually be built. we used bamboo in the form of scaffolding .

In the end we made a structure which was inhabitable , we could climb on it hang over it .

this was the first time we thought of space not the stereotypical way where it is lifeless but looked at it in a way which was representative of something and inhabitable too.