expandthroughtension

I've been looking at this diagram/sketch in my notebook -
the film is the result of this reflection. The engineering problem of contracting and expanding is fascinating. 

gloveboxpaperfolding

a quick idea - I've been working with some of the folding ideas connected with the idea of crystal structures, repetition and the glove box - I wanted to explore the structure by observing how printed repeat patterns are affected by the 3D forms.

shinespinmultiplyrepeat

the 'break' has given me time to assess the huge amount of filming I did last term - in the final days I also generously got to document some particular pieces both in a clean space and within a glove box - thank you. I've been creating a number of films that have an element of narrative embedded within the pieces. In some ways the films reference themselves, they show where the initial ideas for the pieces come from within the work itself. This dialogue within the frame mirrors my experience within the project so far. This act of observing has been crucial to the works development. I'm uploading the films later so that they can be viewed to a wider audience - meanwhile here are some gifs that are an element of this conversation. (I've been watching a lot of Vapourwave videos over the break).

initialintervention

The first intervention - trying to create a folded piece that starts to explore the idea of restriction, tools, spaces and manipulation. The film shows the progression of the idea, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28lAR2kSjQU&feature=youtu.be it's a combination of intention (creating a structure that looks at the restriction of the glove box) and 'going with' the process of folding (working with the materials and the natural laws of their materiality). I distributed them within the Maxwell Centre shared spaces and gave one each to the 1st years, it is not in its finished state, the material needs to be stiffer with the box like structure made more obvious by delineating its volume.