Another task we completed during our seminar was to draw a large observation of the library, as well as a detailed piece. I decided to sit down outside of UL101, and concentrate on the open plan of each four floors. I found it interesting on the semiotics level. You are kindly ‘welcome[d] to the library’; however on each floor, in the corridor it has signs in red that juxtapose the welcome, as it articulates ‘No one stand in this corridor’. This gave me the initiative to go round the library and look at all the demanding signs, which I personally never noticed; however there was plenty in sight! This has allowed our group to start coming up with possible ideas that we could dismiss these signs by getting participants to cover them, and implying our own rules to the passer-by’s. To take this drawing task to a level that would allow us to search more we drew a replica of a pupils drawing and connect it back to the library. When looking at other peoples work, there was one drawing that stood out for me; it was drawing of a detailed piece of architectural structure of the building, focusing on the steel work and its minimalistic surroundings that possibly nobody would notice. Taking this picture, I noticed that there were numerous shapes, including: circles, semi-circles, squares, rectangles, straight lines and diamonds. I took these shapes, and drew diagrams of how to replicate these shapes with the human body. I was influenced very much by Practitioners in Practice as we were studying Meyerhold that week, as well as looking at sight specific performances in libraries (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNvZW2OH72E).
