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Artist Reflection 

This piece by Erin Sullivan, give the illusion of organic motion of bubbles, making it look weightless. I loves the overlapping of the bubbles and the movement of the bubbles, this is what I wanted to portray with my piece.

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Artistic Reflection

Olympia’s piece is the closest to what I was going for, with the nice solid forms and the bubble clusters.

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Artist Reflection

These bubble by Luka Fineisen, the realism is uncanny in this piece and I thought that maybe I could use this as a reference for my bubbles. 

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Artist Reflection

This piece by Charlie Smith, is a cocoon made from bubble wrap. that effect is what I wanted for the layering process but less tight. 

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Artist Reflection

Jeff Zimmerman inspired me with his sculpture of bubbles with their stable structure but also for how it looks weightless. 

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Artist Reflection

James Ossi, the artist that created this piece used the effect of bubble when its in the light, it makes this multicoloured illusion. The piece shows some similarities with mine, with its grid pattern like honeycomb.  

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Photoshop rendering

these are some Photoshop renderings of the sculpture. this is how I visualize the sculpture on the building. the images of the sculpture look like crystals growing on the side of the building and giving off a beautiful effect.

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Written Rationale

My piece was to reflect on negative spacing. I used my own past sculptures as inspiration for this piece and dabbling into that sculpture, I wanted to extend it into something bigger. Sketching up ideas, I either wanted to do use clay or a clear material to make this piece. This piece looks similar to a bee or wasp nest with its indents using cling wrap to make it easier to manipulate the shape. The cling wrap when melted shrivels up and hardens, giving it a durable shape. I sowed all 100 cups to each other to give my piece form, and gradually the more I added on, the more erratic the form became. It twists due to the cling wrap cups pushed together and trying to fit. The shape of the sculpture is was originally angular so that I can display it on a building but with the twisted figure it made, its not as clean cut as I thought it would be but it can still hang. in my original concept I had that sculpture hanging off the side of a building, giving it this illusion of motion as the bubbles drip down Z6 The Hub, but I decided to flip my sculpture around to make the negative spacing clearer. The shape of the divots are far more interesting to look at than the bubble effect. I thought cling wrap would be best, with it being easy to use and is accessible but it lacks control. “As with any genre or art technique having a range of qualities, installation is a way of working, like painting or watercolor, chosen because of its inherent options and exploited for these effects.” (Rosenthal, 2003) This expresses how you can install your art with no limits, have it hung from the ceiling or from the ground, there are many ways you can manipulate your piece with the environment or vise versa. My piece does dabble into this with its body using the building as leverage to hang off the side of the building, or I could display it in different ways like on the ground or suspended, the arrangements are endless. When installing a piece, I feel that you should go for the unexpected, display in the air you make it interactive, something other than displaying on a pedestal I researched an artist last year by the name Emily Barletta, and analysed her felted art piece ‘Horizon’. She uses soft materials such as felt and thread to make very intricate designs that seem to revolve around holes or clusters, she aims more for quantity. she creates these seed pod designs that would surely disturb someone with Trypophobia, someone with a fear of holes. It may disturb some but for others, it feels organized like a wasp nest or bee hive, you can just imagine a group of bees mistaking it for a hive. The piece looks organic as if nature sculpted it itself. Relating Emily’s piece back to mine, I can see that I’ve been inspired by her. A sculpture from my previous work, was made from clay and I made clay cups in my hand and layered them all together into a bumpy sphere and then I cut it open to reveal the caverns that I’ve made, resembling close to Emily’s work. I attempted to do this again with this new piece, but it wasn’t working out the way I wanted it to but I stood back and I move around the problem to make the idea work. Though its different from my original plan, it made me see things in a different perceptive.  

   References

Rosenthal, M. (2003). Understanding installation art: from Duchamp to Holzer. Munich: Prestel.

Emily Barletta, ‘Horizon’ 2008

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Final physical piece

I finally finished this piece. Using up to 100 little domes to create this. I love how it all came together to make this wasp like nest. The one thing that I dont like about this piece is that some of the domes werent strong enough and collapsed inwards so you cant see the divots but you can still see the excess bits sticking out.

The form of this reminds me of the bubbles still or the remains of a bath bomb and it breaking apart.

In the future instead of using cling wrap, maybe use recycled bottles instead. I was think of using bottles instead but its hard to collect so many in a short amount of time and not only that, I dont know how I adhere them together.

Overall, I got the look that I wanted for my piece and Im pleased with how it turned out

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Experimenting cluster

I sowed the 20 domes together to make this cluster. Because of the edged of the domes spread out, the bubble effect is gone. I could cut them down but when I look at the divots of the dome of the opossite side, i decided to use that as the main appeal. I like how erratic it is and how it looks like the imprint of a honeycomb or wasp nest. I will at least make 100 of these domes to then be sown together into one mass

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I made at least 20 of these things but I dont think that 20 is enough. I will have to make more in order to make it into the cluster of bubbles I need. They look really good though, they are hard enough for them to be sewn together with out them being crushed.

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Cling wrap experiment

I know that cling wrap is thin so I foldered the layers ontop of each other to give make sure the structure is strong and doesnt melt through when I use the hairdryer. I used the handle of a screwdriver to be the mold of the bubbles and I wrapped the cling wrap around the handle. The way that the plastic reacted was amazing. It shriveled up and hardened, like when you put a chip wrapper in the oven, it completely shrinks. Each time I did this, the sheets would look different every time, giving each bubble its own personality.

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Experimenting

I attempted to use tge laminated sheets and it failed. Not only did it take too long to melt down but it couldn’t bend to my will. I have to find another material to make the the bubble shapes. Ive thought about using the acrylic but I think its too think. I kept think and thought that cling wrap might do the trick. Earlier on in the semester, 2 students melted plastic bags with a heat gun and thought I could use something thin enough to melt.

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Thumbnails and planning

I did some sketches of ideas for the sculpture. The technique I want to go for its negative spacing. They idea originated from a previous sculpture I did, where I layered bits of clay ontop of each other, leaving air pockets inside and then when it was done I sliced it open to reveal the caverns inside. I loved the outcome of that piece soI want to extend on it more so I sketched up theses designs.

The first couple of sketches are just like the original sculpture but I wanted to make them larger and into a series. I wanted to plan the layer better so I can get lots of gaps without solid parts of clay being in the way like in my previous piece, which was my first mistake in the original.

The last page, instead of using clay, I wants to use a clear material like acrylic sheets or laminated sheets or even recycled waterbottles. I thought that laminated sheets would be best since its thinner and easier to mold. The effect I wanted to go for is overflowing bubbles, gives the illusion that there are bubbles streaming down the building.

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Site

Before I could start planning, I decided to take some photos of the building I wanted to incorporate my sculpture. I wanted a nice empty space that needed some attention. I remember years ago they would put advertisements on the Z6 building but now they no longer do it but the sculpture that I’m going to make will bring it back. 

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KVB222-Assignment 2

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Week 5: Time and Motion/Change

Time and Motion/Change

Artist Review: Janet Echelman

This web like piece felt like a net flowing with waves of the ocean trying to catch fish. Janet Echelman, was described to look like a net getting caught in the wind, almost like a kite getting hooked my the wind. With the wind pushing against the net, the net would be changing constantly, never staying still, letting the colours move rapidly through the wind. She suspended this piece in an open area, like a giant web over the buildings for everyone to see. Janet has made many piece similar to this one, displayed out in the open, and some use lights to create this aura borealis look to her net sculptures.