'Isolation' Idea.

When coming to an understanding of what to do for this project, really found it hard to think of an idea. I eventually thought of an idea that really involved me testing my physical state and my psychological state.

In summary, my idea Entails me to stay isolated within my room for approximately 3 days (72 hours), when doing this my stimulants within my room will be taken out I.e. Laptop, guitar, books, music etc this is so, as I wish to show the psychological progress of what I will go through within the 3 days of doing it. I will also be without sleep for 3 days as well. Additionally I will ration myself of food and water, enough to last for the 3 days.

When taking this to the 3 portraits, I will portray each day on each of the portraits e.g. first day on first portrait and so on. This will therefore show my state change through  the 3 days. When speaking to lecturer of this idea, he suggested that I go for medical to see whether I am fit enough to this idea.

I came up with idea when in bed and thought how would the body and mind react if it were deprived from all sources of stimulants, rationed on food for a period of time and deprived of sleep. So I started thinking if I could show it though a time lapse of myself going through the stages of my state.

Furthermore, during the process of doing the experiment, every 3 hours I will write a page in my journal to feedback how I am feeling at that current state. The camera will be set at one corner of the room which will take constant images as the hours go by. The problem by doing this is that I would need a very big SD Card/Micro SD card, this is of concern to me as SD Cards are very dear.

One of the my examples that I will it of is the 'David Blaine Box Trick'. Now when he did this he had months of conditioning before doing the stunt, he had all round medicals. He had no food for supposedly 44 days.

As you can see in the image above, David Blaine is suspended from a crane above the River Thames. 

In my case it will not be as extreme as this, mine is just an experimental piece to see what will happen within the 3 days of doing. When thinking about this, I asked one of my close friends who studies Psychology at University to see what the outcome would be, of how I would feel during the process of it and also the end result. She said that Sleep Deprivation will be caused, Dizziness, Fatigued, Weak, Brain Dead and so on.