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THREE-PART SCULPTURE

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Project description/assignment. Create a sculptural ensemble with three components: One made of wire, one made of cardboard, and one made of plastic (and inflated). Each object and the ensemble as a whole should be "dynamic" (non-static) and otherwise visually interesting.


Lateral thinking. The objects were created separately, over a period of about 4 weeks.

Wire cube. This was conceived as a deformation zone, or, a region where wind converges along one horizontal axis, and diverges along another axis at a 90-degree angle to the first axis. It is also a region of induced, spiraling, upward-vertical motion. The horizontal convergence and divergence are relatively easy to detect in observational data of wind, but the vertical air current that results is orders of magnitude small, and therefore much more difficult to detect. Its consequences, however, and very important in the atmosphere. (For more comments, please see Blog.)

This can also be described as a region of transformation, or, a region of mass conservation, where change occurs but nothing is lost. Short descriptors are:

Flow
Convergence
Divergence
Conservation
Implied motion (secondary circulation)
Transformation

Cardboard structure. This was conceived as a solid object that conveys an organic (curved, somewhat biomophic) shape engaging in a "leaping" gesture. I also experimented with adding textures by peeling away the outer layer of the cardboard to reveal the corrugations. Short descriptors are:

Curved
Living
Organic
Biomorphic
Leaping
Squid
Ocean (see waves beneath the squid structure)

Inflatable pyramid. This is a solid, geometric structure that can be "pointed" (conveying motion or gesture), and is conceived of as the oppositive of the "living" cardboard shape. Short descriptors are:

Solid
Planar
Directional


Sketches (click for full size):



Material studies. Materials were specified in the assignment. Some variations in texture were attempted with the cardboard component. In the wire component, paint was used to vary color, as well as shade. The gold spiral in the center indicates the location and importance of the induced motion.


Finished piece (click for full size):



Comments on the finished piece. The pyramid is intruding (pointing) into the cube, which is up on one corner. The squid is embedded in the opposite side of the cube and rushing upward and to the right, when seen from the position shown in the first picture (left). (Waves can be seen beneath the leaping squid.) This creates a gesture that flows inward through the pyramid (a geometric shape) and into the spiraling center of the cube (which indicates a region of inversion and change). The gesture then flows into the base of the squid (biomorphic shape), and upward to the right in a slightly curved motion (as seen in the picture on the left).

Comments adapted from peer comments by a fellow student:

Proximity: All three forms connect and flow into each other.

Texture: All three objects give a light-weight impression, without much (added) texture.

Gesture: Dynamic gestural lines implied, especially with wire. (Student then indicates Fleur des Lis-like structures on some edges of the cube.) This is in addition to the gesture through all three forms discussed above.

Scale: Plastic (inflatable) form was made just big enough to (counter-)weight the taller cardboard form. The enssemble balanced in terms of scale.

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