21 June 2010

Sliding up a curve. Or what to put in an ash tray



The problem, the figure, the form, the building catch on fire, or are set on fire, or simply burn, as the season brings an updraft, a hot front, a wave of air. The curved spiralling lines and small triangles of the weather pattern mark the look of the fire, the feel of the heat. The problem, the figure, the form, the building, congeal, become mercury, become magnets, swivelling, as the small triangles on the curved spiralling lines turn blue and then silver. The problem, the figure, the form, the building flicker as the light recasts the situation, flicker as they breathe, flicker as the arrows slide up and down the spiralled curve, the triangles changing colour. The characters or the seasons are temperature, are a look, a light; the characters, the seasons are a movement, a secret, a touch and a touching. A way ward punctuation, without edges, without equilibrium.


The space is 6x10m? The drawing is not in proportion and I'm careful about where the video book could be projected, it's quite spastic as you might have noticed.
I've made some time in July and August to actually work on the sculptures. To propose (a more or less) definite floor plan is hardly thinkable. I'm afraid the sculpture might just be another testing of the surface, the imagistic and the spatial, which is not my intention.. One video might drop out during the process depending on what is emphasised in relation with the sculpture.

**********Is the dark area, a part of the wall darkened? I think this seems pretty good, I wonder if we should consider to build some kind of platform in the room somweher to break the flat parcour up a bit too, maybe part of "my scene" could be raised? Or we place a kind of catwalk in the space for your spiral ash tray? Again, as in THE BF I think we need some eye level rhythms. the curtain I have is only 280cm high, so it will have to kind of hang in the middle of the room wiht some construction or hang very high! (haha) To accomoadte that then maybe we could Imagine climbing up to another area (a platform) to enter my scene and also have a nother vantage point for viewing your pieces, i like the idea of your spiral becoming a landscape that represents everything....


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********** Sorry, I only noticed this comment now. It's good to insert comments to respond directly to something, saves time describing the thing you are referring to. If there would be a way to alert the other that a comment is added or a hyperlink structure with which you set up relationships from one text to another.

So the curtain is not going to reach to the ceiling,. that changes everything, in a good way. Perhaps we can work on a joined plan, because J. told me he wasn't sure if he was able to keep us together in one room. That would be a real pity. Is the curtain not going to reach from wall to wall, or do you mean that an elevated platform allows some tall people to look over the top edge of the curtain, or a platform that extends to an area outside the area that the curtain delineates. I agree things can be done in the space to create some eye level rythms. I don't know if the black/dark area should be a painting on the wall or some panels attached to the wall. I drew it in because it because form a certain angle the spiral could appear as suspended in the air, with a little imagination. Also I thought it would be good to break the rythm that is creates by all these doors.

In terms of leveling, at the moment I try to keep all the elements in similar proportions; objects that easily fit between my arms. For example, the monitor would show my hands leafing through the pages slightly smaller then real size. The monitor also lights the spiral, which is too big to be a model too small to be an earthwork. The awkwardness of the spiral could be amplified by the nearly real sized representation of the book.
Something like that could be happening with the speakers and another sculpture (perforated tiles) as well.

If you could make a drawing of a platform I can respond to it and maybe send this to J?

simply tiles