‘I Can’t Fcous’ is a playful, tongue-in-cheek collection of pattern swatches and banner which depicts the thought processes that occur in an ADHD-riddled brain on music.
Music is a drug and for someone with ADHD it can take you on a bender. Loss of attention, constantly changing thoughts, as well as relief and reprieve from distractions are strong yet conflicting mental states which they may go through, and which this collection aims to depict.
Through the use of bright primary colours and brash motifs, as well as the in-your-face graphic style and seemingly abrupt and random transitions between scenes, this composition aims to replicate the mental noise and chaos experienced by an ADHD sufferer while listening to music.
This banner depicts the rapidly and sporadically changing thought processes that a person with ADHD may go through when listening to music. ADHD is a disorder which causes a person to have a short attention span and be easily distracted. To sufferers of ADHD, music can be a huge source of distraction and cause one to feel uneasy or overly stimulated.
Done in the style of M.C. Escher, the use of a limited colour palette gives the composition a dystopian feel which reflects the negative emotions of distraction and confusion experienced by ADHD sufferers being overwhelmed by music. The morphing and tessellation of one pattern to another reflects the mind of an ADHD sufferer, always jumping from one seemingly unrelated topic to the next.
By Bridgel Sze, Viena Lee, Mok Jiaman
This project aims to embody the essence of bird migration, migration paths and geographical locations that birds visit.
The migration patterns of birds extend beyond merely moving from one place to another; it is a symbol of interconnectedness, not just between countries, but also between species as bird often transport plant matter and seeds on their bodies while migrating.
By projecting a flock of birds birds onto a raised platform, the audience can interact by placing objects (dried plants cast in resin cubes) on the table. Each object will produce a different animation of tree rings on the platform at the location the person has placed it on, and the birds animation will flock towards the tree rings.
This works through AR fiducial marker detection; each object bears a different fiducial marker and a camera will detect the identity of the marker and produce the corresponding tree on the projection. The combination of tree rings and bird flock is a visual representation of the interconnectedness between birds and trees/plants, all part of nature.