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Art for THESE OTHER THINGS
Water elements
Ripples
Grief reverberates through time
Death leaves emotional marks behind
Overfilling
Point where emotions can no longer hold back
Build up and overflow of grief
Dripping / trickling
Unresolved grief - subtle but persistent
Sounds of dripping water = rhythmic, subconscious cue for discomfort or unease
Crashing of water
Sudden, inescapable force of death - mirroring emotional shock
Reality of loss setting in
Evaporation & Condensation
Fleeting nature of memory and grief
Evaporation = loss over time
Condensation = suppressed emotions or memories resurfacing
Reflections on water
Disconnect between facts of deaths and emotions tied to it
Mirrors inner turmoil
Chaotic torrent
Drowning in sorrow - unable to hold on to stability
Contrast well with stillness
Still water
State of reflection - emotions are settled, but memories remain
Used in final moments of play
Calming flow
Managing grief through rituals, structure, and tradition
Fog & Mist
Blurred, dreamlike state of grief - reality and memory mixed
Emotions shrouded
Grasp and ungraspable - controlled and uncontrollable
Divider
Emotional distance between people after death
Physically separating people (rivers, oceans, etc.)
Melting Ice
Ice = emotional numbness
Melting = healing, acceptance, letting go
Solid to liquid = gradual shock to acceptance
Waves
Grief = non-linear - unpredictable like emotions
Calm v turbulent v calm v turbulent
Stains / Residue
Grief leaves marks / lingers
Persistence of memories
Bathing
Cleaning / attempt to move on
As a Carrier
Water carries from one place to the next
Connections across time
Unfinished conversations
Contained
Desire to contain grief
Grief = uncontainable
Animations
Notes frim Michele animated on screen
Glitches to represent the cold / robotic / real / distant aspects of death
Factual details of death vs emotional responses
Text messages fading, breaking apart into code
AI-generated voice
Glitches appearing on a human face
Missing files
Projected text (with AI VoiceOver)
Projected text 1: p. 39: Dad GP
Projected text 2: p. 40: Confirmation of cancer
Projected text 3: p. 46: Support worker
Projected text 4: p. 49: Chemo notes
Projected text 5: p. 49: Health notes
Projected text 6: p. 52: Message from Mark - no more chemo
Projected text 7: p. 54: Other notes
Projected text 8: p. 58: Health Notes
Projected text 9: p. 59: Health notes
Projected text 10: Final note - dad's death
Projected text 11: p. 61: List of names
Video Moments
Video 1: p. 13: After Steph's death (recent - day of writing script)
Awkwardness at Funeral
Curiosity to cause of death - unknown - not discussed
Video 2: p. 15: After production and close of HDILYD in 2023
Suddenness of death after the show
Cold - factual - reality
Video 3: p. 22: After Roberta's (Mickey's sister) funeral
Felt distant to Roberta
Out of place at funeral / awkwardness / unsure of role
Desire to know the "rules" at a funeral
Video 4: p. 27: After Jen's (Friend) death
Desire to know more about- was it suicide?
Lost for words
Video 5: p. 32: After reviewers of HDILYD + dad's diagnosis
Failure for creative outcome to deal with death?
Video 6: p. 34: After Cath (friend from mum's group) dad dies / after good news from Nicole (another writer)
Suppression of death to others
Don't want to out do their news
Keep to yourself
Video 7: p. 36: Anger over Dad after his death
Facts of his life
Racial discrimination at work
Video 8: p. 40: Anger at the situation
The why's of life?
Regret / wanting a Time Machine? / Desire to change the past
Video 9: p. 41: After medication in October
Factual recording of events
Trying to deal through process?
Video 10: p. 43: After telling HDILYD team
Unsure about steps moving forward. To tell or not to tell
Postpone vs factual process already in place
Video 11: p. 58: Last night of HDILYD
Avoidance?
Getting on with life?
Video 12: Dad's death
Factual events / detached
Titles
Title 1: p. 8: These Other Things
Title 2: p. 63: Pubes: a public servant play
Photography
Blurred photographs in the background during script
Adjusting focus lens
Photograph linked to deaths
Combine photo elements with water? eg. Photo under water with ripples on top
Meeting Notes
Water is a recurring motif
Static slide during talking so not to distract from story
Rain / reflections / water drops / fog / mist?
Animation student = discrete elements such as opening credits
Motifs and devices to break down work into components, eg, above/below world, distant or near deaths
Illustrate disconnect between facts of death and internal thoughts / responses to death
Smoke. Fog & Breath
Paper, Ash, and Writing
Shadows & Silhouettes
Fractured Glass & Reflections
Fabric & Wind
Light & Colour Transitions
Water to Hmong Culture & History
Migration
Historically moved across mountains and rivers
Mekong River
Escape and loss
Life and renewal
Emotional journal of grief
Displacement
Hmong Funeral Rituals
Water used to cleanse the body and guide the soul
The deceased travel across land and
'water back to ancestral home
Spirits and ancestors connected to natural elements
Shamans use water in healing rituals to cleanse individuals of illness or negative spirits.
Ancestral Connection & Storytelling
Rivers & streams in many folktales
Water as a bridge between worlds
Dragon leaves under water
Agriculture
Farmers depend on rivers, streams, and rain for growing crops, particularly rice, corn, and vegetables.
Water is central to survival and prosperity.
Meeting Notes 28-Feb
Associative
Interrupt
Functional
Transitional
Absurd
Repetivie
Tensions
Videos could be extensions
IDEAS
Series of videos of awkward actions
Pouring hot water onto a plant
Dipping socks into a bowl of water before wearing it
Adding water to a bowl of rice and a phone
Using a fork to add sugar and stir a mug of coffee
Pouring milk onto pieces of toast
Using a hose to pump a sports ball
Knife
Washing an open book with sponge and soap
Ironing clothes with a block of ice
Notepad submerged in water or ink, as someone tries to write in it
Using a spray bottle to wet clothes hanging on a clothesline
Shoveling water out of a wheelbarrow with a ladel
Mopping a floor with dirty water / mud
Filling a bottle using an upside down funnel
Trying to light matchsticks that have been soaked in water
Adding ice cubes to boiling water / Using ice cubes as bbq charcoal
Capturing and storing steam from a boiling pot with plastic bags
Single video ideas
Hand trying to grab water as it flows
Start with slow trickle
Builds up over time
Torrent by the end
Fully submerged
Reverse the video at the end
Whole video is flipper upside down so water flows upwards
Handwritten notes dissolving in water
Notes fully submerged in water
Notes in a bowl
Bowl begins to fill up with water
Ink begins to blur and run - breaking apart words
Paper tears and dissolves
Water is clouded in ink - paper is gone
Objects dropping into water
Using a tank
Drop objects in
Symbolic objects
Objetcs floating - submerged
Water filling up an object
Domestic objects
Shoes
Hat
Fishbowl
Wheelbarrow
Kettle
Hand bag
Rice cooker
Upside down umbrella
Rubbish bin
Candle burning + ice melting + notes
Candle burning sits on blocks of ice
Ice on a pile of hand written notes
Ice beings to melt - candle falls - water dissolves into paper and ink smudges
Candle inside tube/blokc of ice - lit and slowly melts was and ice
Clothing submerged in water
Overlay of water textures with:
Fabrics
Photos
Written notes
An action that slowly reveals itself over the course of the play
water across a body
photo being dipped into water
Objects floating under water
Video on a black background
water in different actions
Videos from Thailand Trip
Reflective water - static breaks in between refractions
