Planning

Before I rushed into designing my final piece, I began by sketching a number of potential ideas. The following are the doodles and proposed designs that I composed during the first two studio days. 

Initial plans included simple compositions representing stagnation and motivation and materials that emphasize those qualities.

Soon after I came up with ideas that ranged from photo manipulation to sculptures of strange blind figures to a rotating device designed to keep a marble in a continuous rotation around a circular track. 

After some thought I moved forward with the marble track idea and developed some designs that could work with rubber tubing.

The next day I scrapped the marble idea and went on to a design for costumes that would emphasize stagnation.

My costume ideas were boring me so I returned to the marble maze. This time, I decided to complicate the housing of the actual track.

Here I continued to complicate the track and ended up with an idea for tracks that represent different life choices. This is seen in the idyllic landscape and the cold office building.

Most recently I started to return to more organic representations of choice and its integration with the dream, which suggested that no "choice" truly existed.