Qanat Quartier beach
Doha, Qatar
The embedded interpretation of the ‘feeling of past’ takes the former experience to be part of the explicit content of a conscious state. By incorporating current physical objects, such as imprints into the present, thus, an episodic memory that extends experience in time to form the sense of self. As Alexandrian kids, we were to spend the evening under the sun by the beach to trail back arbitrary footprints, in which each path brought to us different set of eyes and different adventures. Each path inherited a representation in our subconscious.
Therefore, the focus of Unconscious-prints fabricates a set beach toy, which engages an audience to form unexpected footprints, such as Woodcock footprints, gigantic rabbit footprints, Crocodile footprints and Gorilla footprints to generate tales and to help the audience find their own ‘set of eyes’. Each footprint tries to engage towards a cause or a climate change drawback, in order to bring attention to the audience in a form of a game.
The fabrication involves CNC on 18mm thick plywood sheets, then the Plywood is waxed to make the beach toys more resistant to water. The vacuum former is explored with in order to produce a design twist on the traditional beach bucket. It first goes through CNC to produce the positive, and then taken to the Vacuum former to melt on the plastic sheet to create the negative, which is the ‘Bucket’.
Woodcock
|Woodcocks are not found in Qatar, and the exaggeration of the size ensures the audience’s curiosity to inherit a representation in their subconscious.
Gorilla
|Taking on a gigantic existing organism such a gorilla and twisting the scenario of it hunting the prey (us), instead making the gorilla the Prey and us as predators.
Giant Rabbit
|The use of a non- existing organism defeats the explicit content of a conscious state, which enlarges the interest and to help the audience find their own ‘set of eyes’.
Forgotten-self
|The bucket explores on the notion of self- remembrance, it is evolved on the ability to concentrate attention on inner states: to become aware of oneself. Therefore, the ‘bucket’ protrudes on surface instead of sinking in to ensure self-awareness. It is covered in beach material in order to camouflage with the surface.
