Texture Assignment: Motivation for the Textured Scene

Though textures are mostly used to allow objects to appear more believable and realistic to the viewer, I attempted to make an interpretation of the subject in an abstract manner. Instead of creating exact representations of how they would appear in reality, I textured the scene to represent how an individual may perceive a room as a memory in their mind. The following covers how I attempted to texture such a scene.

First the objects in the room and the walls were distorted before texturing them. This is to set a feeling of imbalance and discomfort in the scene to suggest that the person remembering the room has had a particular memory of an event that occurred within it. This distortion of objects is influenced by Van Gogh's 'Chambre de van Gogh a Arles' where the furniture in the image are not completely in the correct proportions and perspectives.

The wooden tables and frame have exaggerated textures so that the room appears further distorted. The grain is larger than it could appear in reality because of how it may appear in a memory.

The walls and floor have also been given a texture that they would unlikely have in realty. In this individual’s memory, the hazy texture is what they perceive in a memory of the scene.

Though the scene is not as aesthetically pleasing as it could have been, this textured scene is the attempt to experiment and search for another manner of interpreting a subject and representing it through distortion and abstraction.