I’ve been thinking of ways to capture and portray members of the community at the Tote. I feel like the best way to go about it at this stage is by not singling out particular faces in the collection of the material, and perhaps treating visits to the Tote as ‘observations’ of sorts.

In the Pepper Glass reading I cited as part of the last assignment, he talks about how “members [of a community in a shared space] connect with each other, and how those connections generate new identities, spaces and forms of art and culture”. I want to look at how these communities share a same space as means of creating identity, but by not focusing on individuals themselves. As such to “dehumanize” them of sorts, and focus on how they fit into the ecology of the Tote.

My idea for representing this, at the moment, revolves around the idea of blurring particular faces in a way similar to a motion blur. I am not technically certain as to how this will work yet but I think it could be fascinating to look at on the Nishika.