Everything Hidden is meant to be found

 There is this song that my sister and I have been obsessed with that is called my days from the broadway production the Notebook. You meet this character who is at a point in life where she is asking where am I even going? The lyrics are “where am I? Where am I going? And is it somewhere that I want to go? And when I get there? Is that where happy is, or is it somewhere I already know?”

I wanted to tie a few of the themes that I saw in the Meet in the middle project via a different angle but also look at the themes in my animation project from a different perspective as well. I was inspired by Julia and Erika’s Meet In The Middle project that was a little portal in space with a castle and its two towers. Theirs was more the entrance to a different place but I sought to explore what that place might look like. Why? Because that project in essence was an opportunity to step into a world not fully your own in our attempt to get to know each other better.   

Personal Objetives 

I wanted my project to inspire introspection on where one currently is in relation to where each little portal leads. There is always somewhere else to be, some place else to go. And even though we often get glimpses into the magical future of our dreams we aren’t actually there. We are here. So where is here? 

Personal Presentation choices

    My intentions behind each of the three different modes of presenting were different. The first and definitely the most obvious was the portal in the whole in the wall. With its gold boarder and minute gold steps on the pavement it was meant to welcome the introspection that comes along with being welcomed into a world that is not your own. 

    The second and most hidden portal (here to the left) was meant to put my onlookers in the shoes of a small child instead of the adults that we all are. Children more frequently get their hands dirty and look for the most obscure things in even more obscure places. Much of my own childhood was spent looking for things, I did not know what. All the best adventures often take place only when people poke about.   

This was a less blatant, childlike invitation to begin an adventure 

    The third choice was to have the fantastical world slowly enter into ours. The world is not as black and white as it appears the first few years of life. Things once relegated, hardly stay in their assigned slots. The past bleeds into the present and the present always carries over to the future.  An adventure once experienced is hardly finished until you are changed by the experience and take a part of it with you.