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The Edge of The Goggles Are Blurry

  • Charlotte Dobson

A multi-angled investigation of water (as the sea, a swimming pool and bubbles found in water). What really is water? An investigation through being in water and my personal relationship with water. This includes changes between my body and the water and vice versa. The project’s drive is a personal enjoyment from being within water. These include activities in water such as regularly swimming, aquafit and the project developed to other “fun” ways that we can feel adrenaline from water such as jumping into water and water slides. These experiences are either physical or emotional. Physical experience is swimming that engages all of your body. The emotional categorises down into calm and adrenaline. A sensitive approach provides rigorous investigation, and the project sees phenomena in the normal. There is a curiosity about the complexity and mystery of water itself. Fascinations of water focused on are that water is something greater and that water is physically supportive. Water is a juxtaposition. Ultimately, interactions between water, light and colour influence texture, shape and edges: (partially, break, merge, align, dissolve). It is about contact with water at the start to the end: becoming immersed in water and losing water.

View the images as part of the project here - https://www.charlottedobson.com/images-scattered
Textured image rocks

White Foam Waves Crashing - Final Projection - Walking around
Blender and drone made crashing bird’s eye waves.
Isolated and Extracted Sea Shape
Installation sea shape with detail and movement.
One of the final outcomes of my MA Project, 'The Edge of the Goggles Are Blurry'. This is a projection of the outline of part of a wave taken from a photograph, isolated and enlarged through this mechanism, isolated from dominant colours. It is almost unrecognisable of what it is - then, do we really know everything about water?
The mechanism discussed is a light with a gobo holder. The pattern of what you are seeing was carefully traced using a laser cutting machine to be placed into the gobo holder. Therefore, the light projects through this pattern, enlarging it with sharpness onto the surface, rather than a shallow depth of field.
The orange acetate hangs between the two from invisible wire hanging from a supported structure. This loose rotation creates light moving around the room.
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