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OK, the last post was all words; here are a couple of pictures. These are from the Spirit of BC regional roundtables that are taking place around the province. The roundtables are intended to help the communities involved come up with concrete objectives or legacies they'd like to accomplish for their region by 2010, and to brainstorm ideas for celebrations to mark BC's 150th anniversary in 2008.
This picture is from last week's session in Victoria (click on the image for a larger view – it looks blurry here but it 'cleans up real good' in the larger size!)
And this one is the chart from the BC2008 session in the Okanagan the week before.
As you can see, the quality of the photographed images is still uneven. So much depends on the available light in the room and how steady my hand was that day (note to self: buy a tripod!), to say nothing of my rather uneven approach to Photoshop at the other end.
What I like about these two is that I feel I'm getting a better handle on organizing the material. The lower one is very simple graphically – not much imagery at all. But I think it hangs together quite well and moves the eye along around the edges and toward the objectives in the centre, which is what I wanted it to do. The upper one is more elaborate and not quite as clean graphically, but it represents an advance for me, viz: I remembered to leave space around each idea so that when someone called out a related idea, there was room to put it next to the one it fit with instead of simply trying to find an empty spot on the page. That is, I managed to create visual clusters this time, which I then framed in red to bring them out.
I was also glad that participants felt free to add their own comments here and there (e.g. the V.I.R.C. column at left, which I framed). I really like it when people 'claim' the work by writing or drawing on it themselves. It makes me feel like they're really engaging with it – and entering a real conversation with the artwork. Yay!
This picture is from last week's session in Victoria (click on the image for a larger view – it looks blurry here but it 'cleans up real good' in the larger size!)
And this one is the chart from the BC2008 session in the Okanagan the week before.
As you can see, the quality of the photographed images is still uneven. So much depends on the available light in the room and how steady my hand was that day (note to self: buy a tripod!), to say nothing of my rather uneven approach to Photoshop at the other end.
What I like about these two is that I feel I'm getting a better handle on organizing the material. The lower one is very simple graphically – not much imagery at all. But I think it hangs together quite well and moves the eye along around the edges and toward the objectives in the centre, which is what I wanted it to do. The upper one is more elaborate and not quite as clean graphically, but it represents an advance for me, viz: I remembered to leave space around each idea so that when someone called out a related idea, there was room to put it next to the one it fit with instead of simply trying to find an empty spot on the page. That is, I managed to create visual clusters this time, which I then framed in red to bring them out.
I was also glad that participants felt free to add their own comments here and there (e.g. the V.I.R.C. column at left, which I framed). I really like it when people 'claim' the work by writing or drawing on it themselves. It makes me feel like they're really engaging with it – and entering a real conversation with the artwork. Yay!
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