Button Fish

Easiest way to get photos from my phone to the computer, So enjoy the strange photos!

Articulated Tree

Okay, so it's more articulate in that I wanted to tell a story. But if you shake it around a little it does feel like it's quite jointed.

At this point I had to pick a theme to articulate (do you see what I did there?) and after a conversation with a friend I linked it in to the tale of Eve and the Serpent.

Isn't he cyuuuute?

Overall, I've quite enjoyed 3D design, mostly because it was up to your own ideas and development. I don't think that 3D design is one of my strong points, but I liked interpreting it in my own way to fit with my work. 

Life Drawing, week 7

   

It almost out last week. Sad face. These would be a little better if the charcoal hadn't picked up the dirt on my board, so I'll have to remember to cover it next week.

Creating a 3D Object

My object was to be based on the work by Rowan Mersh, and also the ideas of growth and delicate style of Junko Mori's sculptures (http://www.junkomori.com go look, they're beautiful!)

I wanted the growth idea to be shown both through the plant like paper cut design of paintwork over the form, but also from the curling shape. I found it was too small a scale to fully get this idea across, so I altered my design.

Medium section, purple "fruit".

Central section, blue "fruit" (cold, decay, death, etc) and slightly more angular paper cut.

All three together. The red-to-blue thing came from Mersh's use of black-to-white tones creating further depth in his sculptures.

Please excuse my hand.

I think that I could have secured each section slightly better, but it quite like the idea of the piece being diagonal rather than straight. As a functional thing you could probably make some pretty swanky lamp shades out of this.

(All pictures taken by me)

Rowan Mersh

We were given a list of 3D artists to look at, and I went through it and accidentally fell in love with Rowan Mersh

Fabric Sculpture Series 2 (External Tumours), 2007, deformed circular forms (defaced coins, scratched vinyls, CDs with corrupted data) covered in stretched fabric.

Based on the idea of the uncontrolled division of tumour cells, and abnormal tissue growth. The use of contrast in the photo gives a fantastic illusion to a kind of futuristic scene, making the piece seem like it is in motion with growth. One thing I really like is the use of corrupted items making the skeleton of this piece as it now connects to tumours and mutated cells through many levels.

Wood Works, 2005, wood.

Made from tooth picks and barbecue skewers to give the idea of perfection from the clean, spherical form, though they are not a perfect sphere.

Glass Rope, 2007, glass

Challenging links between material and function. Glass was used as it has the opposite properties to rope, being brittle and fragile.

"In seeking a method of construction that questions this and our perception of material's relationship to it's function, the theory of the innate spiral was formed. By filling a tube of stretch jersey with identical symmetrical objects larger than the non-stretched with of the tube, surplus volume is created with the tube. This surplus volume is expelled at a 45 degree angle from the seem of the tube, thus generating a permanent three dimensional spiral from the objects contained with in the tube. In this case over ten thousand glass marbles were shared between the two structures, uniting individual glass spirals in the construction of Glass Rope" - Mersh

Images and quotes taken from http://wwww.rowanmersh.com