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Positive Fragments: Final

10 seconds of 10 hours of Rain

7'x5'

tv, steal, found objects, plaster, vegetation, YouTube video (10 hours of Rain)

A reflection of society's relationship with nature. Tv is showing a video of rain in a forest. Plaster hands mounted on a barricade hold a small plant surrounded by vines and below a rotted out tree root and wooden containers with broken pieces of the plaster hands inside. The audio of the sound of rain plays through speakers.

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Week 11 Index

QCQ #3: Structural Tension

A Structure Within a Structure: Research

A Structure Within a Structure: Final

A Structure Within a Structure: Materials in the World

Negative Fragments

QCQ #4: Concrete Blonde

Negative Fragments: 25lbs

Positive Fragments: Research

Positive Fragments: Final

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Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II #3 and Intent

Verner Panton designed the S Chair in 1956 which became the Panton Chair manufactured by Vitra. It was the first plastic stackable chair designed for serial production sold by Herman Miller Furniture Company. The originals were made with polyurethane structural foam, but I have a fake set made of fiber glass painted in white polyurethane. Plastic was considered high tech at the time, but I have them on a Saltillo Mexican tile which makes for a hard contrast. Making clay impression of the mid-century modern design of the Panton Chair laying on a low-tech clay tile floor reflects the evolution of societal use of materials and its humble beginnings.  

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Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II #2

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Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II #1

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Cast of arms with a tv siting on elbow joints holding a plant in front of the tv blocking the screen while playing video of sun and rain mounted on wall or free standing.

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Cast a tree branch holding a tv mounted on the wall or possibly free standing. Tv could be streaming footage of a forest fire.

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Positive Fragments Preparation 1

Cast of an arm that appears to be installing a tv on a wall. The arm is holding object useless for tv installation like a spoon or chancleta (flip-flop) as if it were a tool like a drill or level.

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Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions I (new angles) and Intent

An artist studio becomes a second home and the details of the space begin to stand out. I have become more aware of the objects of my environment and gain appreciation for them. I take them less for granted when I focus on them individually and wonder what it would be like without them. Many of these items are a sign of an advanced society while others are simple pleasures. For example, a fire extinguisher is required by law to provide a safe building, however an orange Sharpe is just for fun. These clay impressions capture some of the often-overlooked inanimate objects that enrich our quality of life, like a heavy-duty door hinge or toilet flush handle. 

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Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions I

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QCQ: Cocrete Blonde

Q: “These assumptions (about architectural representation) are: that space is continuous; that it can be divided into three homogeneous dimensions; that what matters is not the space itself, but its boundaries; and that it is experienced in a linear manner, with respect to time. House reveals and questions some of these assumptions, by representing space not as a conceptual abstraction, but as a synaesthetic experience.”

C: Synaesthetic: psychol the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of colour. Professor Scicluna said to me last week, “the space between art pieces is just as important as the artwork itself.” Rachel Whiteread’s House and the article Concrete Blonde: A Probe into Negative Space where Mysteries are Created by Joanna Merwood not only emphasizes the beauty that lies in the space in-between objects but also how this space can serve as a medium itself. Even more fascinating to me is the idea that this space of “nothing” is full of magic that can invigorate the imagination. The space between things are containers of untold stories, experience, the overlooked micro world and the supernatural.

Q: What are some ignored voids among us that hold wonder and beauty?

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Pillar

3’ X 5’ X 2’

Steal, wood, concreate, TV monitor, compound, acrylic, paper

Pillar is an expression of destruction in the form of a collapsed architectural structure. A steal I beam is welded onto another to form a base and four 10’ rebar rods are welded onto that forming the concrete reinforcement. A skewed cube frame covered in plywood, compound, and paint bolted onto the steal base with the four rebar rods running through it forms the pillar, A notch or slice of the cube is cut out where a tv monitor is wedged in like a knife in a stick of butter. The pillar is covered in rock band and advertisement posters then distressed. Rebar rods are mangled. The destroyed pillar with tv represents American culture experiencing disaster.

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Idea #3: transform an environment by creating a ceiling or wall that doesn’t function as sound barrier or to create privacy

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Idea #2:

Create an object that needs to be solid for it to function as designed but in this case the outline is all that is seen. An example could be a fan.

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Idea #1:

Handrail that follows the various stages of life. Handrails have been a type of monkey bar for kids and youthful people. Pool rails, sliding down stairway handrail and skateboarders grinding down a staircase come to mind. There are also beautiful and not so beautiful decorative rails designed to be practical and be aesthetically pleasing. In recent decades with the start of the Americans with Disabilities Act, handrails are required and depict a value for basic human rights. This idea would describe the various stages in life starting at ground level with a gradual slope angled upward then coming to an intermittent point then the angle changes downward until the rail seems to end into the ground.

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QCQ3 A Structure Within a Structure 

Q: “For me the problematic is never one of representation. I mean, I want to push materials to the point where they actually fail. So what something looks like is almost beside the point, or at least beyond my control.” Tuazon’s most fundamental achievement, all the more profound for being so basic, is to build a structure that does not look like but simply is. 

C: As an artist with a background in construction, the idea of pushing materials till they fail is fascinating because I have always thought about an art piece structurally before it became expression. So, if I wanted to paint, I would build a sturdy frame and fix the canvas on so that it was nice a tight and then I could start to create knowing that no matter what the finished product would look like, it would at least be on something that was well built and would last. Tauzon challenges my understanding on the value placed of a perceived quality of structure and the potential for the natural degradation of material stability to become the creation process and medium. 

Q: What other Arts or disciplines are there that can create potential spaces to be explored between it and art; for example, the space between art and biology, art and accounting or, art and avionics.