Sculpture

Got a lot of help on this one. R. advised me on rattan weaving (attachment and how to soak them for pliability). N., S., and M. came over despite me being very low functioning to apply wet gauze to the rattan frames and clamp them down to dry. (I found gauze dipped into a water bath of flour and glue added the kind of drape we desired.) I drew a lot from my anatomy knowledge and from experience binding people. I felt I tapped into past knowledge acquired in my 20s when I was working a lot with these odd representational forms. ...

Background and Outcome This lighting installation was a fever dream; two weeks of near-daily workshopping by L., J., N., and myself resulted in an installation that was perhaps the most synergistic we’ve ever created together. Concept: a laser projects onto objects that diffuse light down onto the dance floor. We ended up using IR LEDs inside paper lanterns as the objects, arranged in a traditional calder mobile construction to form a sculpture. On the ground we used a camera with an IR filter, MadMapper, and Resolume to provide visual output to a laser which projected onto the sculpture. ...

i created these sculptures for re:entry, envelope soundsystem’s inaugural event hosted before pride weekend. i wanted to acknowledge mylar’s properties as a fascinating and novel material (the event had a future-past, space-age theme), and also emphasize the resultant sculptures’ interaction with light. i wanted the sculptures to show passive movement so that they captured the viewer’s attention, but not too forcibly. to achieve this low-grav subtle movement, i built alexander-caulderesque mobiles. i constructed each piece and balanced each arm incrementally. ...