Personal Research Project & Work Summaries

A structure exploring tension, gravity, weight, and balance. The ropes and form draw across the backdrop of the white wall, creating lines and blocks, and triangles in the negative space. An inherently unstable structure.

Created for the site specific project, in response to the constant and unending renewal and maintainance of the NAS grounds.

Wall tapestry, made from Parramatta rope on a hand-made loom. Depicts a bicolour rendition of "Bryan", featured on smoking packets. The background is filled with a broken diamond twill pattern.

Made for the continuation of the archive project, toying with the inverse of semester one's goal of bringing physical objects digital; finding ways of bringing digital objects physical.

Panoramic ink drawing on hessian, with wooden frame. I enjoyed distorting the figure, and drawing people from my mind.

Made for the booklike project. Made for fun!

Over second semester my archive project and personal research project mingled, as they both shared the common goal of finding happy mediums in-between digital and physical media.

A relevant project from last year was a TouchDesigner project that allowed you to draw onto a screen or projection via a webcam and live video processing:

I played around a little more with TouchDesigner this year, distorting space:

Then again, in the 3D modelling software Blender:

I also played around with digitally manipulating scanned images...

...Which is how I ended up with the plan for Bryan: digitally manipulating a photo, then drawing it physically to use as a guide, then a weaving that followed said drawing.

I was also researching other methods and mediums to render bitmap images physically, and found cross-stitch; pixels centuries before the computer monitor!

I also tried drawing with the body through photography; abstracting myself into mounds of flesh and creases. I see landscapes in a lot of them.

Although I didn't consciously put any Dutch emblems into my work, I had a lot of fun looking through hundreds of them on Emblematica Online, and it definitely influenced me, even if only subconsciously!

celtic-weaving.com/2015/08/30/diamonds-and-broken-diamonds/

^ Really good weaving at the Polish Club in Ashfield. Inspired me to try weaving!

Digital version of the weaving. Roughly how it will look when fully weaved.

The gridded up version of Bryan I used as reference to draw the guide for the weave.

Before the crane, I made this sculpture of a dog. It was held together entirely from nails and made from much the same materials as the crane. It got me thinking about the longevity and maintainance required of structures, both sculpture and architecture.

Then, I used that train of thought to construct a structure that responded to the NAS grounds:

Thanks for reading!