Weekly Journal 07

Exploration & Experimentation

This week was all about faces, and I took that as a personal attack (in a good way). I’ve been told I seem extroverted, which is funny because my closest friends know I am an introvert disguised as a functioning human. So naturally I thought of The Scream by Edvard Munch and went: yes, that’s the vibe sometimes. I did not generate an image in p5.js but instead focused on research this week. To understand facial structure but not in the orthodox way. I had an idea with light and dark themes and wanted to explore more before diving in, to have a foundation I can work from.

Influences & References

Edvard Munch reference

This art mattered because The Scream proves that a face doesn’t need realism to be emotionally loud. The structure and exaggeration do the work. I also looked at digital references around introvert/extrovert depictions because warm and cold palettes are basically emotional coding at this point. Blog about Introvert and Extrovert colour schemes

Another inspiration was an artist we looked at in class, which shaped my interest in weird, interactive, angular face systems: In-Class inspiration

That mattered because it gave me permission to be strange on purpose. “Weird” can be a design choice, not an accident.

Algorithmic Thinking

Here it was more about finding my foundational work for the final project. Where I want to involve faces but in a non traditional way. No eyes, mouth or noses. A different kind of reflection of humans.

Critical Reflection

What worked: I finally felt like my ideas were coming together, refocusing and taking time for research instead of spounting out images.

What failed: when I tried to write a code for faces nothing came to mind in the beginning until I decided to not focus on script writing but on research.

Next step: stop generating endless variations in my head and start focusing on a strong two-state system with a smooth transition. I’m basically begging my future self to build a sketch that rotates between light and dark like a calm, controlled cycle.