spatialaim

[spatialaim]

Material Exploration: Pipe Cleaners

Before deciding to use steel as my desired material of choice i explored a range of different materials. Long story short, they did not work exactly how i had wanted them to so i began to move into digital exploration rather than physical exploration.

The second material i explored was pipe cleaners - i thought that since they had an easy bend and mistakes would not be obvious that it would be a good choice despite how environmentally unfriendly it was but they failed and i immediately began exploring digital medias to create my work. 

As you can see in the images above they were not aesthetically up to my standard.

[spatialaim]

Material Exploration: Aluminium Wire

Before deciding to use steel as my desired material of choice i explored a range of different materials. Long story short, they did not work exactly how i had wanted them to so i began to move into digital exploration rather than physical exploration.

The first material i explored was aluminium wire which was difficult to bend and would not stand up on its own (also applicable to pipe cleaner), i wanted to move onto a different material instead of trying to figure this one out perfectly 

[spatialaim]

American visual artist Michael Rakowitz is trained as an architect as his work straddles the divide between art and architecture. Based in New York, his most memorable project is paraSITE (1998). it is a critique and makes visible the prevalant attitudes towards homelessness, whilst at the same time improving the material living conditions of those living on the streets. The work is a series of inflatable shelters that plug into the vent outlets of buildings which creates a warm and dry space for their inhabitants.

[spatialaim]

Sketchup Exploration

This was my first 3d exploration of my whole site. This one was going well and helped me understand the first shape and design of site but i had complicated it too much for myself so i had to restart.

Here is an in progress shot of my next and final sketchup exploration - i ditched the idea of a complete 3d model and instead opted for a flatter base map but my sculptures would be 3d.

This is another in progress shot. I chose to represent the site as a 2d map so that i could easily line my 3d sculptures in the positions i would like and so that it is easier for a viewer to see. I would refer back to my photoshop exploration to see how it looks in entirely 3d. 

I added a tree to ‘Ibis’ Island and the model was complete,

here are some more angles.

Michael Asher

Asher is a popular conceptual artist who possesses a humorous take on the world. The Asher’s Water fountain (1993) at UC San Diego is a well-known and somewhat historic work for the campus.  It is a banal, commercial-esque water fountain that calls to mind the need for Southern California to manage and preserve its natural resources. The art piece has become something of a symbol on campus since it was installed in 1991 -- students even drink out of it for good luck.

[spatialaim]

Victoria Park’s Aboriginal History

Victoria Park was once open forest where many events took place in history. 

In particular, a series events occurred at York’s Hollow including raids and assaults, as well as the capture and execution of important figures such as Yilbung, Dundalli, Uncle Marney, and Ommuli. 

York’s Hollow’s traditional name is Barrambin in relation to the Turrbal’s language. 

The area was known for its incredibly fertile source of food and acquired its name from the Turrbal clan leader who the settlers referred to as the Duke of York due to the group of muscular man who followed him. 

[spatialaim]

another

[spatialaim]

3d model exploration in photoshop

3d model exploration

this is a photoshop exploration using photos of my site and adding my sculptures (made in sketchup) into the images so i can see how they interact with my site for the placement of my sculptures, i looked at Daniel Buren’s controversial paris work Colonnes de Buren and Ai Weiwei’s 2005 work Fragments. 

DANIEL BUREN

In the 1980s, French artist Daniel Buren placed his rather controversial work at the Colonnes in Paris. The Colonnes De Buren are located inside the Palais Royal in Paris, France and the work is made from 160 black and white striped columns.  these columns take root in the ground and emerge at different heights which is what became the placement inspiration for my work DRIP. I thought that the different protruding heights added a great deal of depth to the work so i looked at adding this quality to my own work through my photoshop experimentations

AI WEIWEI

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s 2005 work Fragments is made from discarded, historic materials such as ironwood pillars and beams dismantled from the Qing Dynasty. Ai worked with his team to create what he often refers to as an “Irrational sculpture” which, at first glance, looks like a construction zone left unfinished but upon closer inspection its revealed that the beams form an intricate system of maps that forms china. What i loved about this work is the experience of the first view, seeing how disorganised it looks and then discovering that it’s perfectly organised. I wanted to bring this sense of wonder into my work so i began to think about the placement in relation to Weiwei’s Fragments. 

[spatialaim]

SKETCHUP VISUALISATIO OF MY PROPOSED WORK - FINAL

this is the final design for my sculptures , they are thinner and as i imagined them

[spatialaim]

Roni Horn

American Visual artist, Roni Horn, has created a numerous amount of public artworks such as You Are The Weather - Munich (1996-97), Yous in You (1997), and Library of Water (2007). 

The above work is Horn’s 2007 installation work, Library of Water. This work was created from Horn’s want to recreate the dynamically situated and freshly vacant library situated on the coast of Akureyri in Iceland.  the installation consists of a field of words in a rubber floor, an array of Icelandic weather reports, and a series of columns containing water collected from the rapidly receding glaciers.

What interests me about this work is the way viewers can interact with it as they are able to walk around the work and imagine their point of view in a different way among these columns of water which is what i am attempting to do with my own work. 

[spatialaim]

Photoshop visualisation of my sculpture

I wanted to see my sculpture laid out flat so i used photoshop to do that

[spatialaim]

Sketchup first installation

This is just a first test run of the shape in sketchup, i am having trouble getting it to stand the right way on the right axis but we will get there 

[spatialaim]

SCALE

ive been thinking about the size of each sculpture in relation to a person so i sketched up a very rough diagram of it

i want people to be able to view the sculptures from a variety of angles to get the full experience

[spatialaim]

Monika Grabuschnigg

Grabuschnigg is a Berlin based contemporary artist born in 1987. Her work focuses on the accelerating anxiety in an increasingly magnifying commercialised environment. Her practice disassembles and reassembles  cultural phenomenons. Technologically based symbols are deconstructed, contorted and restructured into new narratives.

Her primary medium is clay due to the tactically that this medium transfers into her practice. Her works deal with the advancement of technology and she feels that clay is the complete opposite of these advancing digital mediums - where the digital mediums are smooth and perfect, clay is rough and imperfect.

What Shall I Swear By (2017).

[spatialaim]

Nikita Gale

Recommendation (2018)

Gale’s work focuses on the power of material. she says that she relies on materials such as steel, concrete, cotton, etc. every day without putting any thought into it. Her works contemplate the production of these materials.

Recommendation is a steel sculpture mimicking a bed frame, the frame is bent and out of shape though. Gale often uses her material to speak on political situations and this work may be doing just that. 

The wire work and slope of the piece is incredibly intriguing - this sculpture feels interactive and climbable.

I think i should look into using these elements in my own sculptures. 

[spatialaim]

HIROMI TANGO - RAINBOW CIRCLES (HEALING CIRCLES)

- a sculpture u can walk through, found the material interesting as it seemed like a type of pvc piping.

- saw it in person as its currently at metro arts and it gives off a similar feeling to the work i want to make

[spatialaim]

MY ROUGH PLANNING FOR THE SCULPTURAL WORK

SITE IM RESPONDING TO:

[spatialaim]

Santiago Calatrava

Clatrava is a Spanish architect and sculptural artist best known for his bridges and railway stations.

What attracted me to his bridge work in particular is the thin lines supported by single, leaning poles that make a common occurrence in his work. His sculptural forms are often said to resemble living organisms. 

The lines in his work are something that i want to explore in my own work, i believe they have a lot of promise when applied to many environments. There’s a real experimentation that can be done with simple line work that i wish to explore.