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Iterative Development 3
The third and final iterative development was realised through the discovery of 'sea glass', a naturally occurring, common material found on the beaches of Australia, (namely Redcliff). This material was decided to be the final resource for the installation as it was a sustainable and reusable choice of medium.
The decision was reinforced by the colourful, luminous properties it possesses, and the many forms and shapes that can occur within this resource. We additionally added 'shells' to the installation idea to create more beach and sea-related textures, and environmentally viable features to the artwork.
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Iterative Development 2
2D sketch model of the 'twine' hanging from the different positions of the trees that were site specific. The trees form a rhombus-type shape, and we found that this created an immersive space for the audience to walk into when connecting these trees via the twine, and adding the 'hanging' ornaments on the twine.
At this point, the idea had developed into using recycled stained glass as the hanging ornaments, (projecting colours through natural light through the stained glass).
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Iterative Development 1
Materials used in this 1st stage of development: Mirror glass with wire &/or twine.
This was created by drilling holes into the glass medium and playing with tying and wrapping styles with the twine, (material play,), exploring the positions and the physical properties of the reflective glass surface with natural light.
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Izaskun Chinchilla
About the Artist / Artwork:
Izaskun Chinchilla is an installation and architectural artist who has a strong interest in sustainability within the field of architecture. Her artwork serves as a platform for the awareness to spread sustainable architecture as a practice, utilising everyday materials that are made redundant. Her artwork, 'City of Dreams' is a pavilion of reused materials such as; coloured umbrellas, old bicycle wheels, tripods, and car rims, creating an immersive space. This structure was a crowd-funded project, which makes it very interactive, and inclusive of contributors to the art piece. The final result resembles a sort of industrial, flower bouquet, drawing in viewers to explore this unique space.
Relating to my artwork/experiments:
This artwork creates a unique space for audiences to explore and appreciate the aspects of redundant materials made into a beautiful structure. Alike to her philosophy, I too would like to reuse redundant materials in an atypical, unconventional way to create immersive installations.
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Alejandro Aravena
About the Artist / Artwork:
Alejandro Aravena is an architect, and eco-artist from Chile, focusing on public projects that have an interest in social impact, infrastructure, and art recycling. His piece, Elemental, is an installation, made up of 10,000 square metres of leftover reused, plasterboard covering walls, and seven miles of scrap, recycled metal, suspended and hung vertically above viewers. The project aspires to create awareness of environmental strategy and local climate understanding.
Relating to my artwork experiments:
This artwork is such an impactful response to highlighting global environmental issues. I would very much like to implement similar and powerful messages in the artwork that I make, so this is a great inspiration.
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Task 6: Object + Site 2
Embodied Energy
For this task, my task partner and I utilised the used wood in the offcut box as a source of reused material, constructing it in a way that demonstrated the energy of nature can be embodied in man-made forms, (discussing how the wooden structure was also once embodied as a full grown tree structure).
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Teresita Fernández’s
About the Artist / Artwork:
Teresita Fernández is a visual, installation artist and sculptor based in New York. Her approaches to her artworks are said to be elusive, unravelling, and touching on physiological concepts like human connections, and connections to landscape and its history. Her artwork, Fata Morgana, is an outdoor, installation piece, which hovers above a pathway in Madison Square Garden. This piece inverts a traditional notion of general outdoor sculptures by approaching typically used walkways within the park and hovering above them like a horizontal blanket with gaps. These gaps aid in radiating natural light through the widespread artwork, helping to both distort and eliminate the landscape.
“You look at the landscape, but the landscape also looks back at you; Landscape is more about what you don’t see than what you do see.”, (Fernández’s, 2015).
Relating to my artwork experiments:
This piece is highly encapsulating and creates a sensibility for the ambience of nature, and appreciates local surroundings that are in the everyday movements of life. I would like to incorporate this aspect of Fernández’s work in my own artwork, as I find that an important idea and concept in the mundane, business of life.
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Emily Jung Miller
About the Artist / Artwork:
Emily Jung Miller is an interactive, installation artist, sculpturer, and painter, based in Hawaii. Her artwork is heavily rooted in her love for the sea, and her focus on environmental community engagement. She incorporates various natural, and reclaimed materials, mixed-media, and other functional ceramics. Her piece, 'Beams', is an installation artwork that engages directly with the natural realm of trees and the forest. This installation is formed by the repetitive use of coloured string, layered and tied in between trees, creating a stripe-like texture that contrasts the forest.
Relating to my artwork experiments:.
I found this work quite engaging, and also highly doable in terms of implementing it into my own work. The stripe-like textures of the string are highly immersive and would be a major inspiration for what I would try to invoke in my own work.
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TASK 5: Barrambin Site Design 'Sketch'
1: On the walk in Barrumbin, (Victoria Park), there were many sites and spots that felt inspiring to be in, (particularly the areas shown in the images below). The first area was specified by a statuesque, stand-alone, dead tree, isolated from the rest, and surrounded by open space, (image A). This spot resonated artistically with me, as I saw an opportunity to utilise the openness of the space around the tree, and also the skeleton of the tree itself, (almost feeling like a blank canvas). The tree also had some alluring textures, and qualities to the bark, (extremely pattern-like).
Image A:
Another aspect of my experience was venturing into an area that had overgrown, flower bushes, that overhung alongside a biking / walking path. The overwhelming and impressive vibrancy of natural colour produced by the bush instantly drew me in and felt like an immersive experience walking underneath it. The sheer magnitude and continuity of the bush growth almost resembled an avalanche of flowers, which also became part of the visual and encapsulating experience, (refer to image B).
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The proposed site for the spatial artwork is the site of Image B, (also shown below).
This site has a lot to work with in terms of minimalism, and has various surfaces and extensions to embellish on.
Further sketch inspiration from surrounding trees, and textures:
3. Assessment 1 Portfolio (A sketch for possible artwork at that site).
This artwork proposal draws inspiration from an installation artist called Emily Jung Miller, who utilises coloured string attached to trees and nature, (refer to artist research 9).
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Task 4: Volume + Proportion + Site
Experimented with clay, and wire to produce pieces of work that consider the use of Volume, and balance. In this case, particularly worked with stacking forms, positive space and negative space, and arrangement. This created a sort of dispersed, collection of circular forms, spreading out in the space, yet creating negative space in between each form.
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Elizabeth Shivers
About the Artist / Artwork:
Elizabeth Shivers is an clay based, sculptural artist, based in Iowa. Her clay sculptures inherent organic vessel shapes similar to that of coral, and the natural elements of the sea. This particular interest sparked from the fascination of the malleable properties produced by clay, and the value for sea life, threatened by pollution. Her ceramics are made from the stoneware clay, typically formed by the method of hand manipulation, rather than a potter's wheel. This allows her to from these free from structures, vessels, and textures. Her work, 'Life form Lantern', is a prime example of this, blending various curly shapes with coral holes.
Relating to my artwork experiments:
This artwork utilises a lot of textural contrast in the work, and the structural layers create a cascading effect, almost like a staircase. I find that the textural aspects will be useful as inspiration for my own clay experiments, and art explorations.
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Lubna Chowdhary
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Lubna Chowdhary is a sculptural, site-specific artist, creating sculptural object art pieces, (primarily working with ceramics and clay). Her approach explores intersections of identity, culture, personal and collective histories, and industrial processes, though often through dynamically, colourful ceramics, works on paper, and paintings. Her piece, 'Shifting Structures' is a very minuscule clay installation. Utilising the malleability of ceramics, she creates a sort of mini metropolis of ceramic structures in this artwork.
Relating to my artwork experiments:
This artwork tranports the viewer into this miniautre sized ceramic city. The objects and shapes used are very minimalist and repetitive, creating a very alluring effect to the audience. I would take this on as a major influence in my own artwork, as I have a tendency for making repetitive shapes in my art, purely for the pleasing aesthetic. For the week 4 task of utilising clay, this will be a primary inspiration to look to.
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Otobong Nkanga
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Otobong Nkang is a Nigerian, Belgium-based, visual, installation and performance artist. Her work explores topography, (the arrangement of the artificial and natural physical aspects of an area), and social changes in the environment, observing the way the resources are subject to the cultural and regional factors and their value. Her piece, 'Wetin You Go Do?', is a collection of sizeable concrete spheres, attached to ropes. This display is set throughout a large room, it also includes speakers that contribute a supporting soundscape to go with the physical piece.
Relating to my artwork experiments:
This artwork feels very scattered and disordered which makes for an intriguing and contemplative response to the art. I feel like the way it is laid out, with so many varying sizes of spheres creates this feel of 'outer space' or aligning planets, yet also similar to a map.
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Olafur Eliasson
About the Artist / Artwork:
Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic installation artist, who employs elemental materials, (such as water, light, and the temperature of the air), to elevate the audience experience to be highly sensory. His large-scale, sculptural installations are situated on unique terrains, enlightened by his appreciation of nature. His renowned work, 'Shadows travelling on the Sea of the Day' is an extensive set of upsidedown, mirrored structures, held up by circular, curved rings of steel and fibreglass. They are spread across a flat plan landscape, drawing attention to the horizon line spread afar for the viewers. The artist's intention is for audiences to approach this artwork, and to develop a strong urge to linger and absorb the work.
Relating to my artwork experiments:
This artwork is almost entrancing to look at, but to experience it in person would be even more so. I admire the use of mirrors reflecting onto the dry desert, setting and creating the sense of 'endlessness' within the already boundless landscape. In my own artwork, I want to leave audiences with an intentional feeling that they absorb from the art, similarly to that of Eliasson's.
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Nancy Holt
About the Artist / Artwork:
Nancy Holt was a site-specific installation pioneer, recalibrating the conceptual, earth and land art movements. She embraced the advancing media of her time, contemplating the questions of understanding our placement in the world through her art, investigating places, systems and perceptions of art limitations. Her piece, 'Sun Tunnels' is an assemblage of massive, concrete tunnels, so wide-scaled that they cover approximately forty acres of land. They are site-specific to the 'Great Basin Desert', located in northwestern Utah, where the tunnels align with certain angles of the setting and rising sun positions. In particular, Holt planned the tunnels to align with the solstices around the 21st of June and 21st of December to capture certain arrays of sunlight within the tunnels.
Relating to my artwork experiments:
I found this artwork highly captivating, and riveting. I related this to my structural artwork experiments in week 2 by utilising the streams of sunlight cast through the tunnel-like caverns and holes within the structure. This piece inspires the use of surrounding nature and the occurring moments of nature, (like sunsets), to capture a particular quality and atmosphere of that time.
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Michael Heizer
About the Artist / Artwork:
Michael Heizer is an American installation artist and sculptor, primarily working on large-scale projects, utilizing geometric shapes covering expansive, large areas. In particular, he has worked in the dry, desert landscape environments of Midwest America, (e.g., Nevada Desert), producing sculptural formations, protruding into the earth. By doing so, Heizer created 'negative' sculptures by cutting into the earth landscape directly, giving his work a unique edge, (and marking the beginning of an art movement called 'Land Art', arising in the 1960's).
His piece, Collapse, installed in Room 5, is a large-scale, steel sculptural structure, comprised of an arranged formation of 15 long beams, falling into a box-like hole in the earth. This outdoor sculpture is accessed through the Pavillions's interior as it is actually installed within an enclosure.
Relating to my artwork experiments:
I found this art innovative and quite industrial and would relate this to the structural experiments I formed in week 2, where the class used materials like wood and cardboard. In the formations I created, I definitely envisioned them to be in a large-scale setting with depth, and would intend for them to have a similar interactive, industrial experience, placing them in an outdoor context.
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Task 3: Site and Artwork (Digital Visualisation)
Experimented with Photoshop image manipulation, warping, distorting, and shaping to form an imagined spatial artwork in various environments and settings.
Materials, process, form, site and context/concept.
1) Ice sculpture in a beach environment
2) Black linear poles in a forest environment
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