3D Thinking 2018 – DANEY’S BRAIN

Table, Chess, and all the Mess!

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:01:39 +0000

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It’s finished…… it’s finally finished………. My table and cushions and chess set! It’s been a fun time making all this stuff. Also, there were at least 7 times in this process where I was thought I was about to cause a mess of catastrophic proportions, but that happened at most 0.5 times, so I’m delighted about that! (I’m still very afraid of beanbag chair stuffing. It takes a hole the size of a dime to cause an Incident the size of uh. bigger than a dime). All in all this has left me sort of astounded that yes, I did make all this stuff. Which is great!! I have options to make things that I need with my own two hands which I didn’t realize I had. (Maybe I’ll make a bigger beanbag chair one day! I’ll need a while to get over my fears caused by the Great Bean Incident though). As for the exhibit itself, it was awesome to see my entire chess set just existing in a public space, but also, sort of weird? If I do this kind of thing again I’m giving myself time to try out more than one setting for my work. Finally, and most importantly…. I need to play chess more!
Daney Flanagan, signing off!

WFTGTD..?

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:14:16 +0000

...I'm confused too. Hi though!

Three artists. Three wildly innovative ways of interacting with space. My thoughts on all of this: Neat!

Simone Leigh

Olafur Eliasson

Nicholas Hlobo

Simone Leigh

Takeaway from this: LOVE the way she uses scale. Making a sculpture so huge is one thing (although, not insignificant! I imagine it’s super technically challenging), making the sculpture work with its size to command its environment is another, and Brick House does this super well.
Thoughts for my own art: how do I make something feel truly huge?

Olafur Eliasson

Side note, since I’m writing this a little (a lot) later than I was supposed to, as soon as I saw this name I went “hey wait I’ve heard of this guy” and sure enough! He’s responsible for one of my favorite works at wareHOUSE! The book Your House, to be specific. I wouldn’t have immediately guessed that he was the same artist behind stuff like The Weather Project, to be honest. Both works are extremely spatially oriented, but nothing else jumps out as similar between the two. I’m glad I remembered Eliasson’s name from wareHOUSE so I could make this connection, because otherwise I never would have realized!
Anyway, about his work in general. I think the most impactful aspect of it is the atmospheric stuff he does with color and light. It makes me feel like moths have the right idea about the whole “bash into this lightbulb” kinda thing. Seriously, if I saw The Weather Project in person you’d probably have to drag me out of the room because I’d just stay in there forever if no one stopped me.

Nicholas Hlobo

Texture! It’s grand! Something about needlework makes me want to put my hands all over the fabric, and this is no exception. It’s to do with the sense of motion a line of stitches conveys, in combination with the physical space it takes up, I think. Whatever the underlying reasons, they’re elements that Hlobo is using masterfully to convey his art. He makes cloth look almost like liquid, not in the smooth sense but in the turbulence of water flowing over rocks.

WIP- chess set ideas

admin — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 02:58:24 +0000

Just a small progress post, I’ve been thinking about the table we’re building and I sort of want to put a chessboard in the top. Yet to work out the logistics for that, I know how to make the board by cutting and gluing strips of light and dark wood, but I don’t know how I’m incorporating it into the table. I’m also designing chess pieces based on characters of mine, as seen on the right. Would love to turn them on a lathe but I don’t think that will happen anytime soon, since I’d need a lathe.

I still need to decide who or what to make the pawns, knights, and kings, but pictured are little chess versions of my characters Beffery, Ollo, and Alphie, from left to right. All transparent areas in the design represent carved indents, non horizontal ones I'd need to detail off the lathe.

Experiencing Art in Various Dimensions

admin — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:16:58 +0000

It’s going to be interesting taking this class, since I’ve generally considered myself a “2D” artist. I’m looking forward to it! It’ll be interesting not only because of the process of making art, but also in the process of analyzing it. During our class on the 4th, a lot of aspects of 3D art that I never really paid attention to became apparent, particularly how the viewing experience differs from 2D art. I’m putting the notes I took during our discussion here. I have a feeling I’ll want to come back and look at them as the class goes on.

Sculpture by Chakaia Booker

Sculpture

Big, square

Tires + hoses, rubber

Black

Tangled, industrial

Dense, packed together with some escapees

Circular

Mostly bike tires. Some car tires

Salvaged material

Has depth, could reach into it

On thick square board, wood covered in rubber

Lotsa nails sticking out the back

Discussion notes

Information is lost or changed in picture vs. 3D object

Cannot walk around picture, picture is ‘flat’

Picture has no sense of scale

Can’t smell or touch picture, much personalization of experience is lost

Picture is comparatively unchanging

Picture can be copied, is portable, is editable

(technically you could edit the sculpture but probably don’t)

Two different experiences

Could print picture to have third, new experience

Printed picture: is once again physical but still flat

Would be easier to eat than phone or sculpture