Make a work that moves from one place to another

"Make a work that moves from one place to another."



Artist Research:
Wolfgang Tillmans
Tilleke Schwarz.


For this task I focused on the idea of movement, and what moves from one place to another - water, wind, time...

I particularly liked the work of Wolfgang Tillmans and how his photographs really capture movement.  This gave me inspiration to try a few photographs using water and inkjet dyes.  I felt some were more successful than others - the magenta ones worked particularly well.

I tried to project these as large as possible to one of the studios to see if they changed perspective and whether they created more 3D sculptural feel towards them.

I then took sections of these images and created vector drawings using adobe illustrator, and converted them into a short flash video.

After projecting my ink images onto the studio wall, and from discussion at my group crit, I liked how the projections became life size and took on a more sculptural feel.  I thought I should develop this further, and started thinking along the lines of sculptural installation - using fabrics as a another way to capture this frozen moment of time.   

I looked at several sculpture artists for inspiration:

Helmick & Schechter

Nike Savvas
Eva Hesse

I made a few samples to see whether they would be effective, and whether they captured the idea of freezing a moment in time.

Attempt 1:

Attempt 2: Fabrics have been dipped in plaster mix to make them rigid.  I did not think that this looked as effective - I like how the fabric moves with the cube and have a sense of floating.

Attempt 3:  Invisible thread moves your eye to the fabrics inside.  

Attempt 4:  When the frame is moved/handled/angled, the fabrics form slightly different folds/shapes almost like a kaleidoscope effect.

Attempt 5:

For my final sculpture I adapted a few ideas from my test pieces.  I wanted an interactive installation that reflected the photos I had taken - a cube which, when moved, would slightly alter that 'frozen moment in time'.  Unfortunately the final cube fell apart into 12 pieces 2 days before the deadline during the photo session, as a result I did not get as many photos as I intended.  In an attempt to re-create the cube the final product is not as neatly finished as I would have liked, however I have learnt that I would have to work on my skills & choice of materials to have an end product that could be picked up and interacted with.  

(2 days to go:)

Final Sculpture: