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Artist Influence – Heather and Ivan Morison
The work of the Morison’s is very interesting to me, the architecture, the structure, and the installation of the piece. The piece that caught my eye is ‘I am so sorry, Goodbye’, the structure of the piece is so unique and the idea behind it really pushes what it can be. The concept about this piece is that it’s suppose to look like a quaint little hut out in the forest, but when you get closer and inspect it more, it becomes apparent that it’s a post-apocalyptic home made to help its dwellers survive. Pieces like this intrigue me, it makes me think about if we could actually make something like this after a apocalyptic event. But it’s beautiful in every right, the structure of the piece is mesmerising and its design will inspire me to create my own imaginative structures.
Project Three – Installation #2
After taking down a previous installation, I decided to have a play around with some of the materials in my space. I removed the metal poles from the ground, and made it a challenge to not have much, if anything touching the floor. Once some time had passed, and a handful of playing had been done, I stumbled across the installation you see now. I quite enjoy the simplicity of this installation in comparison to my other simplistic designs.
In comparison to my installation that was geometric, I prefer this one as it contains different features, and isn’t really predicable like the geometric design. The main feature I enjoy about this particular design is the way the metal poles are displayed. The somewhat unique and new installation of the poles creates a different affect within the piece. And even though this design has some geometric relevance, I overlook it with this new ‘play’ of the materials.
As always, here are some images of the installation. Enjoy.
Project Two – Installation #2
Hi everyone! This is the second installation for this particular project. I have placed hooks within my space to create permanent fixtures to design installations; once made and documented, the installation is removed from the space and the fixtures are used for another installation/design. For this being the second installation within this space; there was a thought process used to design this installation; the same process of exploring the space was used, but I also worked from the wall space into the center space. This was to avoid having to climb around through the web as the web would always be worked on by the front.
This project (Project Two) was carried forward from Project One. The idea being about creating a space/environment of my own imagination/creation, this then lead to wanting to explore space and involve interactivity. Project Two is now lead by the desire to create an interactive installation which explores its environment and develops its own world/space, allowing the viewer to walk through and experience the space thus interacting with it.
These are some of my documentation of the installation.
As always, I hope you enjoy.
3D Design
This weeks rotation is 3D Design. At the start of the project the class was put into groups, given different materials and then told to create a 3 dimensional sculpture, the meaning behind this activity was to open our minds a bit so we could understand 3D Design that little bit more.
After that, I decided to look into different ideas for what I could make. I thought about different materials like wood, paper, plastic, and card, and looked at the different methods I could use to make a sculpture. After I had a little brainstorm about materials and methods I got a little stuck so I decided to look at some artists for some inspiration. The first artist I looked at was Tomas Saraceno; instantly when I looked at his website it came up with his current piece In Orbit. In Orbit is a fantastic piece that shows how space can be used and distorted. I then went onto looking at Richard Serra’s ‘Matter of Time’, an installation/sculpture piece that I believe is designed to pull in the audience right to the heart of the artwork.
Having looked at these artists, I still had trouble coming up with ideas, mainly on how to execute them. I then came across a very clever video called ‘Box‘. ‘Box’ is a video which shows very technical use of projection-mapping, this is where a projection is being displayed on a moving surface allowing the user to create optical illusions. So after watching this video, I decided to create an origami shape of my own design and display it in its own environment, two foam boards that will hang behind the origami.
I originally wanted the concept that the boards would be the same as the boards in the ‘Box’ video, but then my tutor shed some light on the matter and said that he liked how the origami sat in its own space between the boards, and that the origami gives off an unreal feeling, that the origami should be some unknown material that could create its own laws. My tutor then told me that if I was to extend this project, I should maybe consider doing some form of animation and give the origami its own physics and laws and an unusual quality. The images below is the final piece.
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