Week 9: Paper Cranes

I was walking in downtown LA last week one night, when I walked under this scaffolding decorated with lots of small identically sized paper cranes. It was super interesting to see a random scaffolding not only decorated, but decorated by something so time consuming to create! It left an air of mystery since there was no sign of who set up this piece of art. What I really enjoy about this was the way some of the cranes were lit while some were only half lit or not at all. The florescent light source was strong enough to illuminate most of the birds, and as I walked back and forth underneath them, it was really interesting to see how the layout of cranes illuminated in my line of vision changed. The fact that the paper is white really highlighted the difference between illuminated parts and non-lit parts (which then i related to how important costuming is). 

It made me think how the appearance of motion can be created without any movement by the dancers. It also made me think of my thesis ideas, since I will be doing more of an installation type piece where the audience walks around. Either dances or similar paper object would be really interesting to experiment with using lights and moving audience members.