Im uploading these images after the event, while the quality of the images and the making is a bit lacking, it is my hope that they illustrate the development.
After finding the ‘sheds on wheels’ I was interested in pushing the volume up off the ground plane without suspending…this creates a need for legs.
What will happen when I extending the lines of the contained space (box) out as far as the material will allow (2.4 m)?
What happens when I delete areas of the plane?
What happens when I stretch the contained space out – elongate, stretch to the floor?
What happens when I replace some planes with another material?
What happens when I repeat/copy the dimensions of the box?
These experiments were not successful, the length of the legs with the scale of the box made them too much like personage or body rather than ‘bodily” (which was the success of the big bag in the chair work from months earlier). Not to mention the poor quality of the paint and the colour palette being so sweet my teeth hurt when I looked at it.
The positives…??? lifting the volume or contained space up has something Id like to explore further…and the tape is a generic material, it has structural purpose and potential as a painterly aspect.
Back to lifting the volume or contained space up has something Id like to explore further.
It enhances the volume (could enhance) by placing it on a small structure or does it accentuate the sense of volume by placing it on a seemingly too small or fragile structure. There is potentaily an edge here; where the work teeters and may fall, there is some ridiculous push and pull, a desperate holding up.
This leads me to scale…I need a new material that allows me to work with scale.
It needs to be light, strong, able to be pushed and pulled to generate the bagginess, the wrinkley folds of skin or fabric…corrugated cardboard is a solution, it is generic (everyday common, inexpensive) and unmarked. Ive had problems in the past with the found cardboard in the readings of the work. The logos and instructions printed on the boxes spoke about their other life, as packaging and part of globalisation. (the development of the shipping container and the standardised boxes that fit within, was the technology that made shipping of goods efficient and made globalisation possible) while this an important issue in the world it is not the point to my work.
Playing with corrugated card form and structure.
This material has me interested…lets turn up the volume
A giant box made from corrugated card, when I stood it up I had to get in it…its at the limit of my ability (reach) so I must push with both arms and kick out with a leg to open out the box…its possibly too tall…as the top has collapsed in a way I cant control (beyond my reach). Its developed some lovely ‘bum’ like curves as it has slumped on to the ground…the scale is really working.
Added little cabriole legs…overwhelming the structure with volume.
Playing with groups of found things.
The card needs colour without hiding the cardboard, the found things are interesting but distracting, a tangent from this exploration.
Shapes and Colour 