Module 4 Frame VS Field took me quite some time to complete but this was one of my favourite modules by far. Based on

 

Based on the work of Italo Calvino of Cities and Eyes 2, The City of Zemrude was the city assigned to me.  The city within my world is divided, where each built form within the world is representative of various perspectives and outlooks of life. After reading the passage, I decided to focus on the ideas that stood out to me. Based on my interpretation of the passage, there’s this idea of a once high class Zemrude, where the city was wealthy and well of – however that is now no longer the case. There’s this idea that some people living in the city cannot move on from this history and tend to live in the past, live in the glory days. Therefore, each built form represents the people’s state of mind – whether they are living in and accepting of reality or whether they are further and further away from it – getting more and more delirious.

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Each element of the notational field is explained defined by the allocated the legend.

The greyed-out areas in the notational field are character placements, the time line starts from the top right of the isometric and works its way down toward reality and beyond. It works with the character placement (the greyed-out areas) and conveys their attachment to that time and state of the city of Zemrude. The arrows refer to the character gaze. This gaze refers to whether or not they are truly present or of in the clouds, again delirious as they refuse to accept reality. The vine work around the three elevated built forms of the city further represents its aging state and historic condition.

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Perspective 1 was guided by this excerpt from the passage. “For everyone, sooner or later, the day comes when we bring our gaze down along the drainpipes and we can no longer detach it from the cobblestones.” The module required a perpendicular view and one more zoomed in, however I stand by this view because compromising it takes away from the intended message and does not show the intended elements within the scene.

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Perspective 2 was guided by this excerpt from the passage. “It is the mood of the beholder which gives the city of Zemrude its form...but you hear of the upper Zemrude chiefly from those who remember it, as they sink into the lower Zemrude.” Again, the module required a perpendicular view and one more zoomed in, however I stand by this view because compromising it takes away from the intended message and does not show the intended elements within the scene.