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Not Building and Building

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Not Building and Building

(Another New Studio)

Lemniscate wave cc sculpture

lemniscate with ribbon sphere

The inherent frustration when making anything has been rearing its head for the last week. I tried to work out a solution to the sphere at the centre of ‘lemniscate wave cc’ and it felt totally unsatisfactory. The problem here is that the sphere doesn’t fit with the forms around it and it appears as if the torus and the flash are simply supports for it. I’m not keen on articulating why things don’t work because I’m never sure I can, but I was left feeling uneasy. As a result I decided to strip the sphere back and paint it with the Tile Red doorstep paint I used for some of the drawings.

Building and Not Building

Lemniscate Wave cc with Front step paint

Torus sculpture made from Lemniscate ribbon sphere

Torus sculpture made from Lemniscate ribbon sphere

I was able to use the paper I stripped off the sphere, together with the scrap from the Doncaster Platonics drawings to build a small torus sculpture that I ought to recognise as an avoidance strategy.

Doncaster Platonics Water (New)

Doncaster Platonics Water (New)

Returning to the Doncaster Platonics [UKSPF Art Grant]. I completed the report for the council and submitted it so I’m waiting for their contact to arrange a visit. I did find that the original drawing for water (the icosahedron) did not work effectively as a target so I replaced it with this new drawing.

Studio 19 July 2023

Studio 19 July 2023

I’ve got the five drawings framed up now, the frames altogether ended up costing about half the grant awarded, and I started work on the unity/vuforia file for the app. There is a small version of the Doncaster Minster  photographs and a quick, jerky, test of the tageting of the dodecahedron for the heavens. The Minster film will have a soundscape recorded in the grounds with the strangely curtailed electronic bells chiming at 12:30 Wednesday.

On days when I don’t go in to the c-view studio I’ve been doing some drawing/sketching in the attic studio at home. As much as anything to keep my hands busy when I’m thinking about the things I’m not achieving.

Drawing of Platonic Solids

Drawing of Platonic Solids

This is a small drawing of the platonic solid models I made at the beginning of the process and below is a drawing of one of the torii sculptures from February.

sketch of torii Maquette

sketch of torii Maquette

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

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(Another New Studio)

I made myself a workbench, a little lower than the display bench, and began to make sculpture based on the lemniscate wave developments. The bench is shown fully in the second image.

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The view of the studio was taken at the end of the day on the 8th June .

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Studio 08-06-2023

I spent time thinking about the small wave print below and decided to make one of the circles into a sphere and to make the brown paper line widen over its length.

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sphere template

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lemniscate_cc_wave

Lemniscate_cc_wave is the basis of this sculpture, the others can be seen here.

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studio 09-06-2023

At the end of the day on the Day on the 9th June you can see I’ve begun to surface the big zero and the brown paper line and I have the foundation of the spherical form on the display bench waiting to be worked over.

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Dark Studio enhanced

I took a very dark photograph on the 8th, that turned out like this with Photoshop automatic tone, colour and contrast.

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Arranging lemn_wave parts

After the weekend I finished covering the two parts of the lemn_wave. The sphere was a problem and I couldn’t get it to work as I wanted so I had two frustrating days.

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Lemn wave with sphere attempt

You can see one of my attempts here. I was also starting to think about the arrangement of the parts and how they might stay in place.

Given the drying time for glues when the parts were being finished I also went back to the redfilms and hung the circles again.

The redfilms are a found response to climate change, a machine made version of a burning garden with everthing carrying on as normal. It is presented as a double video projection with a fifty percent overlap and the videos starting at different times so that the film changes with each viewing. The films can be viewed on Vimeo.

At the last I decided to use the sections I removed from the ‘o’ to make a spherical shape by crossing the two circles and letting that serve as the form.

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Lemniscate wave cc

I think it works.

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Lemniscate wave cc

I also had a go at a drawing while I was thinking about the arrangement of forms.

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Lemniscate wave cc preparatory drawing

 

Rearranging the furniture

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Rearranging the furniture

(Another New Studio)

After my last post I was thinking about the use of space in the studio and quite obviously it could be much better, so I set about moving the installation space into the corner to utilise the two existing walls rather than just one. I know this is bleedin’ obvious but I plead enthusiasm!

I decided to do this on Friday afternoon, the 2nd June, after returning from a trip away.

Rearranging the furniture

moving the installation towards the wall

The photograph above shows what I mean, the wall behind the drawing board becomes the back wall of the installation and the construction you can see on the left here is the left hand wall of the installation once you’re inside it.

The photograph below is the view from the door giving a direct view of the desk as you enter the room.

Rearranging the furniture

the view from the entrance

On Friday I couldn’t finish it all so I got back to it on Monday 5th. Below you can see view back from the desk with the extra working space created and a nice clean floor.

Rearranging the furniture

New space by the entrance

Rearranging the furniture

Corner installation

And here you can see the filled in installation walls. The projection wall is the reverse of the three 8×4 panels on the left of this picture.

Rearranging the furniture

New Projection Wall

As I freed up three complete panels with this move I was able to make the bench pictured below to use for construction and display.

Rearranging the furniture

New Construction Bench

Over the weekend I worked on some prints of images of the lemniscates that I will turn into sculpture with AR accompaniments. I made the drawings last July and you can see this post detailing them or the gallery

  • Lemniscate Waves
    Lemniscate Waves
    Lemniscate Waves Developed from the lemniscate explorations these are simplified digital ...
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Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The May drawings can be seen here

  • Draw Every Day – May 23
    Draw Every Day – May 23
    Draw Every Day - May 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
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…and the April images here

  • Draw Every Day – April 23
    Draw Every Day – April 23
    Draw Every Day - April 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
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There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

The drawings are posted to Twitter and Instagram each day.