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Sarah Nesti Willard - A window view in Al Ain

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Sarah Nesti Willard - A window view in Al Ain

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My process: I live in Al Ain, a quite large city on the border between UAE and Oman. It is torrid hot, and it almost never rains. But I am used to it, now.

Funnily enough, when I looked for desert landscape, the only images I could find are these idyllic, frozen-in-time vector pictures of the ‘Orient’, with camels and Bedouins, sand, no roads, and women carrying water on their heads, as the picture I provided. This is nothing like how people live here! Women would not even carry their shopping, let alone water amphoras on their heads! And there are no camels in the middle of the city; those are found in camel farms only.  In other words, I could not find a realistic picture of a desertic landscape online.

I live in a half-constructed compound: the back side of my villa has a beautiful artificial garden; the front side, however, is barren. I open the front door and there is a road, sand, garbage and a construction site, as you can see from the picture provided. The arrow on the left indicates a quite peculiar feature: a small oasis, with a water pond. I concentrated on this because, among all these construction sites, the water pond is an element of nature that Boy George (the local cat) and I cherish quite a bit. Some evenings I take a walk – and George follows- to the oasis; I feed him some Friskies and while he/she eats, I stick my feet into the water. It is a very relaxing moment for me and will be part of my most treasured memories.

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I drew the view of my window with a ballpoint pen and sketchy, jagged lines, I then drew the stock image with this same technique. For the steps in between, I drew zoomed out views where I just added more and more buildings to look more like the stock picture and add to the claustrophobic feeling that living in a city can sometimes occur.

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Ksenia Kopalova: a window in Dilijan, Armenia

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Ksenia Kopalova: a window in Dilijan, Armenia

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My process: I made a photo of the stock image on my phone, then sent it back to my laptop, then made a photo of the laptop screen again, and again - to see how the vector perfection deteriorates, and noticed that the shapes first lose color and then gradually disappear, leaving a dark vignette. The grain and the appearing glitches resembled rain, and I thought the handdrawn forest could start growing from this darkness.

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My process: I created this sequence using the Procreate app and an iPad, using the chalk pen within the app - because I only had 15 minutes for each image I decided to forgo colour after my first image (/the last image) which I then ended up playing into on the Stage 4 image, I think it really helps to highlight the nostalgic feeling, and to tie the story together. I started with my view outside, and then when coming up with my idea - I could just picture someone living in the Urban Life picture, in an apartment - and it went from there, with the idea of windows and images as a means to travel into and out of a person's life - whether it be past, present or future.

Publication consent: Yes

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My process: I wasn't really sure if I understood the assignment perfectly due to my internet disconnection. So, in my process, I tried to follow the idea of the stock image as a non-place and how I could achieve that concept visually. So my process started by drawing from my window with a marker, watercolour and pencil. From there, while I redrew the same image from nr 5 to nr 1 using pencil and then photoshop to colour it,  I tried to remove all aspects of the image that had some meaning to me to achieve some kind of uniformity and ambiguity at the same time.

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Hilde Kramer: Looking out my window in Norway

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Hilde Kramer: Looking out my window in Norway

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My process: Photo/ Scanned image/Photoshop/analog pen drawing and just following an intuitive trail of thoughts.

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Welcome to the digital airport. Where would you like to go?

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Welcome to the digital airport. Where would you like to go?

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Please create a 5-step visual transition from this image by Macrovector - to an image of your window view. The technique and the approach is up to you: it can be a collage, a drawing, a 3d model etc - it is up to you how to build your route!

Try to keep it within 15 minutes for each image.

Please add a ~100 word description of your approach to creating this sequence, and indicate if you allow/do not allow us to publish your work along with your text and your name in non-commercial educational and academic contexts.

Please upload the results by 8pm UK time 15th July.

Tomorrow we will have a look at the results together and discuss what strategies we used to create these transitions.