Dear Pierpaolo,
I firstly enjoyed experimenting with a range of different mediums with the cube project.  I explored different processes in making cubes for example melting, folding and compressing. Our room project was the first site-specific piece I have done.  I was interested in the many holes and small spaces which I found in the our room. This lead me to use latex gloves filled with flour and place them into all the holes and spaces within the piping.  The piece was humorous yet had something rather uneasing about it.  It become something about the feeling of wanting to escape.  I also experimented using plaster and went back to the shape of the cube.  The cube of hands transpired another issue of overpopulation. 

Anyways have a nice holiday,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

Anna Gonzalez

Hi Pierpaolo

For the “Cube” project I experimented with a wide variety of materials. I initially restricted my materials to those that were white, as I wanted to focus on the texture and the form but I later developed on from this. I then became very interested in creating cubes that used the space of the room to form part of the cube. I also worked in collaboration with other classmates to form larger cubes. These were constructed out of every day objects, and through this we removed their use and questioned their form.

For the “Room” Project I created two outcomes. Both works use the dust from around the room.  I became fascinated with this grotesque medium. The two works that I have created are spaces that I intend for the viewer to enter. I want the viewer to feel uncomfortable in the space. I am interested in how the piece’s in a way glorify the dust. I am intrigued by how I have taken hidden dust from the ceiling and presented it at ground level in a visible format. I enjoyed working with such a challenging medium. The second work is a development on from the first, in this work I wanted to elaborate on the notion of creating a space.

Samuel Bromley 

Sculpture 1

Detail of Sculpture 1

Sculpture 2

Hi Pierpaolo,

Above are photos of my work from the Room Project. I don't want to give too much away, therefore i won't say much, apart from the first image is of the 'grinding' process i took to get to the final outcome below, and that my influence came from the history of Clerkenwells Italian Community. 

Interpret it how you will!

Happy New Year

Bronte Schwier

Hi, Pierpaolo.

In the cube project I experimented a lot with gelatine.
I liked it's transparency and the way it feels when you touch it so I decided to keep on working with it.
I wanted to make something a bit corny and morbid so I made a memorial christmas decoration with steel chains and dead gelatine birds.

See you in January.

Emilie Alstrup.

Dear Pierpaolo,

Hi, I'm Kai yue Yang.

The work I created in the Room project is this:

I think it would be nice for me not to talk too much about the work, like you said in 2D/3D week, it would be more interesting to see what you would think about it.

The context of this work is "inverse space", and this work is developed through my initial idea of "reversing a corner". 

I'm looking forward to seeing you in January.

Best regards

Kai

Hi, Pierpaulo.
My name is Hiroki and I came from Japan.
Originally, I was interested in fashion design. However I found that I prefer engaging
myself in the process and concepts to the outcome and would like to communicate with audience
through them in the Foundation Course. Since I can more focus on the process and concepts, I
decided to study fine art.

In "Cube" project, I tried to make as many cubes as possible to find out the potential of  new
materials such as fabric, cans and clay.

In "Room" project, I gathered garbage bags and piled them up to the ceiling of the classroom.
I've learnt the importance of risk-assessment and planning carefully before starting to work, for
my work became smelly in the middle of working.
I would like to put this experience to good account for next project.

Have a good Christmas:)

Hiroki

HI PIERPAOLO!

Here's a quick explanation of what I've been doing...


I really enjoyed the cube project and throughout the week I constructed wire 'incomplete cubes'.  I continued with this idea during 'ROOM' where I attempted to create an incomplete cube structure directly beneath the exposed pipes in the studio from resin casts of a pipe I'd had found.  I say attempted as creating a mould and casting a long thin structure didn't prove as easy as I'd imagined. As a result i have various sections of a pipe, but definitely not the 4 complete sections i had intended! But i learnt a lot during the process.


Whilst i was battling with a leaky mould in the workshop i began to explore casting using latex and creating patterns from the scale map of my site in my sketchbook and reflective journal. 


I've became fascinated by all the possible options of drawing incomplete cubes.  I'm determined to find every pattern and combination.  It shall be an interesting Christmas!


Here are some images of my work.
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Patterns formulated from scale site map

Latex casts of sections of pipe

Exploring the incomplete cube...

Exploring the incomplete cube...

Happy Christmas!


Emilia Kalyvides

Note for everyone

Hi everyone.


Please all post one photo of your choice related to the Cube and/or Room project, and give a brief description of who you are, and what you want to say about the piece 50-100 words should do it. Start it off with ...Hi Pierpaolo...!


Also please make sure work done for the research project 'Power' is brought in first day of term, Tuesday January 4th. Those students 6 students I asked to be in the Drawing Unit Sample bring in drawing portfolio for both Units passed on that day as well.


'Power' will also be put in the Part 2 folder of Fine Art > blackboard today


I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and look forward to seeing you in the New Year

Museum of Everything

Hello! Thought it would be nice if we went to visit the Museum of Everything on Thursday before everyone heads home?

Emilia
 

Publish Post

The Very First Post

I know we have finished the cube project but if any one is interested at the weekend I went to a fantastic exhibition at the Schwarts gallery. Artists Alex Baker and Kit Poulson are showing in an exhibition titled “House for the Future”. Have a read of the information below. The exhibition is  well worth a visit. Its open till 19 December.
“For the final exhibition of 2010 Schwartz Gallery presents the work of Alex Baker and Kit Poulson in an ambitious collaborative sculptural installation located in the main gallery space. Kit Poulson and Alex Baker have been collaborating for over 10 years producing installations and live works that explore the edges of object making, sound, text and movement.
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Building outwards to escape from our own plans, to subvert our own thoughts…
We began with two eight-foot square cubes, occupying one each. From here we unfolded out into the gallery space. The work became a conversation as our paths met. We continued to move freely, inhabiting the cubes, transforming them into new forms. Around the cubes we constructed four tables; sites for collaborative making.
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Our bath fills from the plughole?
Our work contains elements of sculpture, installation and performance. It explores how simple plans generate ever more complex systems and the convergence of the act of making and the act of thinking as conversation; conversation between two artists, the world and material, the work and the space and the time of the show.
In these works different speeds of making are visible; rapid improvisation and slow considered construction, as we negotiate our way through the objects that emerge from the collision of our activities.
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Our conversation will create an architectural confection, which emerges from the para-modern ideas of Suprematism, the Elterwater Merzbarn and the ‘garden shed aesthetics’ of the Brutalist Smithsons.”

See for more info : http://www.schwartzgallery.co.uk/site/