We also studied the practitioner, Pavel Semchenko, at the very beginning of this project, where we spent our first lesson looking at how an object can influence a whole piece.
We spent a while studying and just looking at one of our stimuli, we chose the picture of the soldiers who had been gassed, and we sat in silence taking in every aspect of it. The colour, the background images, the facial expressions, the intricate details that you might not normally see. We really focused in on the picture and then shared with each other and wrote down our initial thoughts, which we ended up reflecting on, when we started to develop our movements, based on what we'd seen.
This was a really helpful exercise and really emphasised to us, Semchenko's ideas that a whole piece can come out of a single object, if you take the time to study it and focus your complete concentration onto it. We also then allowed the object to become the key part of our performance. For example, in the picture, the men have bandages over their eyes, which gave us the idea to use the scarf, which the majority of our piece revolved around.
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