The Blind Pipeline

The Blind Pipeline is a project I did that is entirely unrelated to anything at all. I was at a stage in the modules I was working on where I pretty much stopped caring about the work I was creating and my enthusiasm had hit a rock bottom. This has happened before in the past and rarely has this problem been solved by doing more of the same work. I literally have to find something else to do. That is when this happened. I'd thought about the idea for a while. The idea was to draw a picture, get someone else to copy the picture, then pass it on, the next person would draw the previous picture and so on.

I started by drawing the woman from the Chemical Brothers music video Setting Sun. For no reason, that just must have been on my mind at the time. Then the process began. I feel it's fair to say I got a little carried away with the project. Where originally I was going to get like ten people to do it, in the end I ended up getting a hundred people to do it from all different courses. The process was pretty time consuming as I decided to edit it together as an animation in itself and time it to music. I ended up using the song Roots by Romare and I really liked the results. So not only was the process of timing the images with music time consuming, but also was crediting everyone at the end. With the people I did not know the names of I had to track down various registers and for people I simply could not find the names of I had to just leave a little apology. 

I really enjoyed this experiment and I like to think I might of broken the record for biggest collaboration on an art project at Leeds College of Art with a hundred collaborators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAv3FVlDdQw