Myriorama Content Thoughts/Linking to Essay

I feel my myriorama content is too simple but at the same time I don't want to create something too convoluted. My idea is to create cards that when put together have women from different historical eras kissing. It's simple but I think it can link to my essay very well as in the essay "Queering the Museum" it's talked about how unrelated male and female statues together, which shows the museum curators heteronormative bias, as putting them together makes them seem like a couple. By creating unrelated women that kiss when put together, the person using the cards almost become like the museum curator, putting together the pictures and women how they wish. I think it also undermines heteronormative values as it would be all women, and queers history by taking history and putting it against other historical figures.

Besides the book doesn't have to represent the essay completely, just a general theme.

Myriorama's

It's come to my attention I don't have enough time to finding out a good way to contract a 3D object, or a series of 3D objects that slot together. So I have an alternative of doing a myriorama. Myriorama's are sets of boards that can be put together in any order to make different scenes or pictures. The most famous type of these is the endless landscape. 

Above I have some examples of Myrioramas Including: 

-Mark Bischel's Endless New York street 

-an antique myriorama, these were where the originated from, they were very popular in victorian England.

-Tom Martin's crazy Myriorama

-more of Tom Martin's Myriorama sets

-Endless landscape  by Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld's is very cute, and a modern take on the traditional victorian landscape myriorama. I love the packaging and it's sepia colours make it very nice and subtle.

Tom Martin's myrioramas are crazy and pattern based, I don't think I'd try anything this crazy, but I do love his colours and boxes. I like the fact some are screenprinted as they can obviously see the beautiful screenprint textures coming through.

Book Idea Confirmation.

After talking to Pete he confirmed I can create card pieces that fit together and are contained inside a box and class it as a book. Stuff like this is usually published like books, and the cards can count as "pages" so I should be fine, which is a relief. I wanted to create something different and my idea will work a lot better as a interactive set of cards than a staples/bound book.

COP: Peer Review

After explaining I felt kind lost to the group, they helped my develop my thin ideas. I'm thinking now a 3D puzzle kind of thing, even if I have no idea how it'll fit together! I felt a lot less lost and more confident after the session. Above shows all the notes taken by Janice for me during it!

COP: Practical Ideas???

Feeling pretty lost, having a hard time figuring out what I can make for my general themes that isn't too literal or boring. 

COP: Dissection of Essay

John Berger Ways of Seeing Series

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I watched this entire series whilst researching my essay. I read bits of the book years ago, but I feel the video series is a lot better, John Berger is very good at explaining things nice and gently, and using visual examples

I feel this can apply to my essay, with the way he talks about seeing images out of context, etc