Part 2

Part Two

1. The wine bladders came joined, straight off of the production line:

2. I have 150 of these guys so my first thought was to create a line through the environment

and from here I had the idea to create a stop motion video of bladders snaking through my backyard and house.

3.My next idea was to try and create a waterfall effect with the bladders streaming over from the surface of the table - It would be cool if they had colourful liquid trickling out from the nozzles - potential video experimentation.. would be very messy!

4. Then I took the bladders and laid them out on the lawn/dirt - which made me think of tetris

5. Then I experimented with arranging and layering the deflated bladders over one another in a circle formation

6. From here I investigated folding the bladders in half and layering them over one another in a grid like manner to produce a fish scale kind of feel

7. I also looked at taking space away from the earlier composition. Whilst I was experimenting with the wine bladders I couldnt help but think that the sunny blue skies reflected on the surface of my object suggest ice sheets.. like the ones melting in Greenland.

8. This was a definite Andy Goldsworthy reference

9. connecting the bags with their own devices

these next experiments revolve around the inflated arrangements. I blew these all up and it made me feel dizzzzzzzy.

10. In a more orderly manner.. tried to make a pyramid.

Deflating and examining the air sealing tap, nice circular shape

11. Trying to create some flowwwwww

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Part 1

This is a 1.5L Wine Bladder

AKA Goon Sack

30 words 

scale, surface, history, emotion, function, colour, and use this as a starting point for how you can begin to develop your ideas

1.square

2.plastic

3.empty

4.full

5.inflatable

6.potential

7.alcohol

8.fun

9.reflective

10.uneven

11.mirror

12.shapeble

13.flexible

14.malleable

15.rustles

16.creases

17.liquid

18.pillow

19.compartment

20.intoxication

21.facilitate

22.designed

23.industrial

24.Australian

25.Culture

26.Commercial

27.Metallic

28. dribbles

29. purposeful

30. clinical 

31. unfilled

32. void

33. vessel

34. beverage

35. consume

36. wine industry

37. Australian made

38. smooth

39. shiny

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Sculptural Forms and Installation Processes  Studio Project 2

 More, more, more – my eccentric archive  20%

• collection of 100 of the same objects as the starting point for a sculptural artwork
• cut, join, assemble, draw, photograph, or film your collection as a means of generating artwork, in fact almost anything is permissible. 
• explore display, repetition, association. 

Part One – 30 words describing 

 scale, surface, history, emotion, function, colour, and use this as a starting point for how you can begin to develop your ideas

Part Two – arrange your collection in as many ways possible

 Document these arrangements, either through drawing or photography, and put in your studio diary. 

at least 12 different arrangements.  

Part Three- Add either string or sticks or sticky tape or blutac or the main material that your collection is made from, to your collection.  In at least 3 different ways. 

 It’s all about investigation that informs the next stage of the process!

Part Four – For this final work you must use all of your collection plus one other material or item of your choice.  You are asked to work with these elements and present an artwork that draws attention to the intrinsic qualities of your collection 

Artists to research include             Tom Friedman, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Simryn Gill, Donna Marcus, Allan McCollum

Assessment criteria

·         Originality and breadth of investigation

·         Development of ideas (inc. documentation of all arrangements of collection/stages of the work process)

·         Quality of related research

·         Overall resolution of ideas

Documenting The Process

The word Vrksasana was too delicate to be fixed to the structure and transported into Uni, so I created a pins that the word can attach and detach from.These next two photos show me experimenting with this process.

Pretty corny, but it had to be done!

Jaume Plensa

These images were discovered whilst sifting through this fabulous blog  - http://ineedaguide.blogspot.com.au/ 

These objects are shaped by letters, their form in a flux between an observation of whole and small fragments, imagery and text - I think that they are quite spectacular. 

Yoga Adventures

A zen sunset situation

 Tourist zen

 Sunrise temple, so zen

Monte Marte

 Vrksasana in a sink hole

Vrksasana in her natural environment

Sculpture Progress and Ideas

I wasn't able to finish Vrksasana in the tech rooms at uni so I bought her home with me, this involved a mildly awkward commute on the train. Some little punks sat on it at one point and it withstood the weight so I am pretty happy that its still.. almost standing. 

This is a photo of my pieces leaning up against the wall of my studio. I'm quite happy with its shape, its not exactly Tree Pose, it kind of looks like a sassy diva but I'm more than okay with that. 

IDEA: At the beginning of this assignment Jessie mentioned that we can photograph our sculptures in an environment that ties to our work. Since I made the effort to bring it home to finish now I have the opportunity to photograph it in different environments. 

So I was thinking that I could take Vrksasana down to the beach, perhaps at sunset or sunrise and get photos of some zen wooden yoga. It would be silly. 

Burning Man Installation/Sculptures

To introduce the context of these ideas in construction I think that a brief description of The Burning Man Festival is necessary -

 "You belong here and you participate. You're not the weirdest kid in the classroom — there's always somebody there who's thought up something you never even considered. You're there to breathe art. Imagine an ice sculpture emitting glacial music — in the desert. Imagine the man, greeting you, neon and benevolence, watching over the community. You're here to build a community that needs you and relies on you." - Molly Steenson 

(http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/experience.html) 


This image below is "Embrace", by the Pier Group, it is a 72ft high wooden sculpture of two people embracing one another. 
These are some wonderful words from the creators - 

"Embrace is our testament to the moment, a cathedral dedicated to the beauty of immediacy. This is a sculpture made to honor all of the relationships in our lives, a pilgrimage through our bodies and our minds."

I think that this large scale project is really inspiring, I think to see this once it is fully constructed would be unbelievable - its immense scale and heartfelt connection between the two figures would project an evocative response for miles.

Hayam Sun Temple

by Josh Haywood

London, UK

Its beautiful!

Erupting flowers of perforated plywood

Beautiful curvilinear structure. 

Gold of scattered light filtering through the delicate tracery of the screen

The treasures are not material things; they are spiritual. 

A place of illumination, intended for contemplation.

John Baldessari

American conceptual artist. After studying art at San Diego State College (1949–57), he began to develop his painting style, soon incorporating letters, words and photographs in his works. By 1966 he was using photographs and text, or simply text, on canvas as in Semi-close-up of Girl by Geranium … (1966–8; Basle, Kstmus.). From 1970 he worked in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography. His work is characterized by a consciousness of language evident in his use of puns, semantics based on the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss and by the incorporation of material drawn from popular culture. Both are apparent in Blasted Allegories (1978; New York, Sonnabend Gal.), a series combining polaroids of television images captioned and arranged to suggest an unusual syntax. Baldessari differed from other conceptual artists in his humour and commitment to the visual image. He dramatized the ordinary, although beneath the apparent simplicity of his words and images lie multiple connotations.

About this artist, site visited 7/8/14 http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=304

Wut is mathz wut is toolz

Building this structure has so far proved to be challenging as I have had no experience with power tools or any of the equipment required to construct. On Tuesday I calculated what angles I needed to join my pieces of wood at so that they would line up neatly, it was really basic but I enjoyed learning this as I clearly hadn't taken that into account initially when I hacked at my timber!
 Craig has told me that I will need to do biscuit joins. cool. Built new respect for Roy Anandas Slow Crawl to Infinity, that structure is crazay.

Wood Word In The Sky

Assessment #1 - First project presentation to the group 'Wood Word in the Sky' 

Vrksasana

I have pursued and played with concepts and ideas stemming from a variety of words; words that imitate their sound, words and phrases that read the same forward and reversed - Do geese see god? and contradictory word collections. I settled with a word from the sanskrit language, a word that I discovered through Yoga - Vrksasana. I still have troubles pronouncing it but It means tree pose. 

The idea is to create a wooden sculptural structure that emulates the shape that the body takes when practicing Vrksasana

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