Commute Project    2005                                                                                h a n n a h    b u r r
 
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       Project Description:
'Commute' translates the patterns within eight short films of a regular commute from Gloucester to Beverly into marks and activities on eight corresponding surfaces. From the films, I document patterns of movement, sound, and events and then reinterpret these records in ink dips, folds, punctures, and marks with various tools and dimensional paint. The color and composition is intuitive, and there is no direct key to 'decipher' how the events and marks correspond; every recorded element however, is represented in a piece - one for every film.

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            Sample Documentation from Films


1. Commute to Montserrat, Mon April 24 9:32 am - 1175 - 3:00 min.


448 white lines passed
66 bumps
2 electrical wires passed overhead
1 overpass passed under
26 road signs passed
70 cars passing in the opposite direction

self talk:
5 likes
4 you knows
5 repeated words or phrases
3 I means
3 examples
2 swears
4 heated points of exclamation
42 seconds of silence


2. Commute to Montserrat, Tue. April 25 9:36 am - 1165 - 1:47 min


radio: bbc:
3 people spoke
9 ums
2 questions asked
1 quotation used as an example
2 interruptions
1 disagreement


18 parked cars passed on the left
5 parked cars passed on the right
10 cars passing in the opposite direction
4 cars passed with lights on
62 electrical poles passed
41 electrical lines crossing overhead
6 turns of the wheel to the left
6 turns of the wheel to the right
31 bumps
9 crosswalks
103 trees
11 road signs passed


3. Commute to Montserrat, Tue April 25 9:39 am - 1167 - 1:50 min


53 cars passing in the opposite direction (1 motorcycle)
10 cars passing with lights on
50 electrical poles passed
5 crosswalks passed
41 bumps hit
14 crossings of electrical wires overhead
21 road signs passed


4. Commute to Montserrat, Tue April 25 9:45 am - 1169 - 2:03 min


7 cars passed
14 road signs passed
3 lane changes
29 bumps in the road
54 cars passing in the opposite direction
5 patches of cloud shadow passed through
274 white lines passed.


radio: bbc
3 people spoke
3 news stories
1 um


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