What am I going to make?

About a week ago now we were told that we should have some kind of idea of what we'd like to make this term with the theme of light. So what did I do?
I drew a damn mind map of course!

The damn mind map. Click to expand.

 The mind map didn't actually get very far. I consdiered some kind of mobile with lenses and crystals hanging from it so that they would refract light that hits them, a bit like the crystals I have hanging in front of my window that fill my bedroom with rainbows most mornings and bright days:

A sunset viewed through one of my crystals.

I thought a mobile could be good, even another classmate suggested it to me. It would also fulfill our unit about problem solving as balancing different weighted objects would be quite hard.
The other idea I had on my moodboard- the one you can tell I went for because it's slap bang in the middle, was to hold some kind of light installation. I'd experimented with light in a store room a week before and I'd really enjoyed the ephemeral and performative elements of what I'd done. My mum has also taken me to quite a few exhibitions in my life and I've always enjoyed and been interested in gallery installations.

'Line describing a cone' - Anthony Mccall

So I wanted to make an installation? Yes!
I had a kind of idea in my head of what I wanted; hanging lenses,  projectors, movement.
How was I going to do these things? Well I have a few lenses already, maybe I could suspend them somehow. I chatted to Young, a tutor again and we drew up a design to build a frame for a lens of mine to suspend it from.

I'm about to write a WHOLE blog post about this thing.

So what else am I going to incorporate into my installation? I could use the things I've been experimenting with already; Projector, overhead projector, card with lasercut holes, dancing people. Dancing people! I really like dancing people. I love the 2D shadows made by moving people and the human interaction with the light.

Classmate Lena and myself gettin' down n' funky before some overhead experiments.

Now, I haven't really planned any more than this so far and the 3D part of the theme of light ends next week. I probably won't be able to make a whole finished thing but I'll have some proofs of concept, some photos, and quite a lot of experience by the end of this!