Mobiles: Moving Sculptures that express Self, Place, Space and Time I wanted to continue my exploration of balance- be it the balance between curvilinear and rectilinear like I explored in my first models or the interplay between open and closed shapes, and I thought of continuing this idea by making the final project something that plays with the relationship between roughness and gracefulness. This seems to be the main idea that I have been trying to express throughout this whole time. A specific incident especially sparked this desire to express this importance of balance between being “rugged” and sensitive. My friend that goes to Pratt in New York, told me how one day she was in her photography class, and the teacher suddenly collapsed during lecture. My friend ran to get help, and as she came back she saw that not a single person in the class had bothered to help the teacher lying on the floor, or even get up off their chair. This unwillingness to take action and responsibility and full of cowardice I find simply disgusting. These overly- sensitive people that aren’t used to be being in critical situations that require immediate action, are the exact opposite to my friend,- who being raised in the city, has learned how to handle tough situations, but also be a kind and a genuinely nice person (with people that deserve to be treated so). So, my overall idea I guess would be: rough, but with a possibility to be intricate and graceful. “Rough on the outside, “soft” on the inside. “ For the style of my model, I wanted to incorporate elements of this subculture I just recently came to realize that existed- called Steam punk. People that are involved in this style, recreate gadgets and also modify existing ones that look like they were made in the Victorian era. They use a lot of materials such as brass, leather and wood. I wanted to give my model a sort of a rustic (or grimy, dingy, dirty, rough) feel to it, but also contrast parts of it with light flowing shapes, that will in some way interact with the air flow. I have two ideas on where to place my model. One would be to the curved wall directly outside the architecture department, and the other would
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Mobiles: Moving Sculptures that express Self, Place, Space and Time
I wanted to continue my exploration of balance- be it the balance between curvilinear and rectilinear like I explored in my first models or the interplay between open and closed shapes, and I thought of continuing this idea by making the final project something that plays with the relationship between roughness and gracefulness. This seems to be the main idea that I have been trying to express throughout this whole time. A specific incident especially sparked this desire to express this importance of balance between being “rugged” and sensitive. My friend that goes to Pratt in New York, told me how one day she was in her photography class, and the teacher suddenly collapsed during lecture. My friend ran to get help, and as she came back she saw that not a single person in the class had bothered to help the teacher lying on the floor, or even get up off their chair. This unwillingness to take action and responsibility and full of cowardice I find simply disgusting. These overly- sensitive people that aren’t used to be being in critical situations that require immediate action, are the exact opposite to my friend,- who being raised in the city, has learned how to handle tough situations, but also be a kind and a genuinely nice person (with people that deserve to be treated so). So, my overall idea I guess would be: rough, but with a possibility to be intricate and graceful. “Rough on the outside, “soft” on the inside. “
For the style of my model, I wanted to incorporate elements of this subculture I just recently came to realize that existed- called Steam punk. People that are involved in this style, recreate gadgets and also modify existing ones that look like they were made in the Victorian era. They use a lot of materials such as brass, leather and wood. I wanted to give my model a sort of a rustic (or grimy, dingy, dirty, rough) feel to it, but also contrast parts of it with light flowing shapes, that will in some way interact with the air flow. I have two ideas on where to place my model. One would be to the curved wall directly outside the architecture department, and the other would be to the tree stump, that is somewhat hidden in the middle of the bush- that is in the courtyard of the architecture department. I was also considering (if placed inside) to somehow make a sort of a fake wall, through which my piece could penetrate.
October 25, 2011
I first started thinking about the ways I wanted the mobile to interact with the environment. I want the model to move due to the wind, but I still need to think more about how to efficiently make the part move and for what purpose (or visual goal). I would also like for the model to make a sound when the wind “touches” it, as I believe that t for the model to be a true mobile it should react somehow to wind and make sounds as if it were alive. For this I thought I would either somehow create my own “making sound device”, or use the inside reeds of a harmonica. Even if I used this part from the harmonica, I would probably have to guide the air toward it, so the wind would actually pass through the reeds to make a sound. As I am writing this, I think that maybe even put some sort of overly- sensitive material inside of the model- hidden from view to make SURE that the model will produce some kind of noise even with the least amount of wind. I also got the idea of using a tiny mallet of a hinge that would be propelled by the wind to hit certain metal tubes,
or even rows of these tubes and mallets, some of which would only be triggered by stronger gusts of wind.
Harmonica reeds
Next I went through a list of materials that I would possibly use:
Metal (preferably brass), wood, possibly wire, nylon string (fishing line), some sort of see through skin-type material (plastic?), plastic bag(for the sound), leather.
I also looked at the possible ways of connecting the metal if need be, and researched on how to weld brass. Since my friend has a MIG welder, I decided to see if it possible to mig weld brass and found this little forum: http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/communities/mboard/showthread.php?3721-mig-welding-copper-and-brass
It seems like, that it is possible to mig weld both copper and brass with the right adjustments to the machine. (Which is a great relief, because I do not know anybody that has a TIG setup.)
I also got ideas on how to mount my model from different pictures, such as this:
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