Reading Complexity : Final

2. Thoroughfare through Pak Klong Talat

This is where Latour's text is applied, " Looking at a crowd or a troop of horses we will be less aware of the exact loss of detail because we will tend to expect that the members of this mass will be identical and read them accordingly....where we are reading  and where we are 'reading in'. ( 99 Perception of Order). Would the quality of an object being shown in mass act as a deviation to the eye, or would it still have a potential to stand out taken before that you have not witnessed it before. Here is where ornamentation, elevation, framing, orientation, symmetry would provide as catalysts in provoking beauty which causes the viewer to 'read in' rather than merely read. The further Phase would continue in playing with the viewer's order of perception based on visual hierarchy, contrast and shifting. Can we control their attention when communicating the information through a virtual space including the Throne and the Chair?

The diagram of the thoroughfare deals in explaining possibilities of things that were easy to look at but were not paid attention to, due to its pre-conceived notion of textured quality. The pink strokes explain the areas that were brightly perceived and the rest in grey are the other things that were not paid attention to but could have laid eyes upon. The final thoroughfare shifts from a journeying through a narrow area towards a high ceiling roofed area( a change in threshold of spaces) where my eyes pan around.

Thoroughfare through Pak Klong Talat from Ash Joseph on Vimeo.

The final video for my journey through the Pak Klong Talat deals in highlighting things that occur at the same time but our eyes judges in providing attention only to contrasting elements at a limited spanning duration.