cubes and rooms

Hi pierpaolo!

The cube project allowed me to explore materials, I love being in the workshops constructing things so I made many cubes all the same size but from different materials attempting always to make a 'perfect' cube.  After looking at everyone else's work I realised that the scientific part of my brain had allowed me to be stopped by the precise definition of what a 'cube' is, and I was actually really excited and inspired by people's work that explored what a cube was without actually being an exact cube.

I liked the idea of a site specific installation, and always when thinking about my response I want to explore the world where science and art overlap.  I constructed a rhomboid from wood, I really loved the final shape and in particular how at certain angles it looks like an isometric drawing of a cube. 

I called it a 'thinking microscope' and it was meant to focus your vision on a certain part of the building and then there was a text describing this specific field of vision on atomic and subatomic levels - I studied Physics on these levels and found it irreconcilable with reality to comprehend that so many unimaginable intricate interactions were happening all the time on the microscopic scale - so was hoping to deal with this in some way.  However the text wasn't very effective in the end, but I liked the final piece as I liked the challenge of building a box all with angles and paying attention to all the final details.

Hope you have had a nice holiday and looking forward to meeting you soon

Abby