Dose Nation - 3-D: A Vicariously Trippy Experience

This article was the inspiration towards shooting a 3D image for the backdrop of my thesis installation. This article explains that, “The very act of putting on the glasses and seeing things differently is like passing through a gateway, or cleansing doors of perception.” With this in mind, wearing 3D glasses could be seen as a metaphor for lucid dreaming. This is the feeling I would like my audience to take away from interacting with my piece.

Link to article - http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=7447

Mark Jenkins, Nature - Studio Journal

Washington, DC

      Mark Jenkins is an American artist who is known for his street installations. Jenkins creates sculptures out of box sealing tape then puts them on display outside where there is foot traffic. Like Jenkins, I will be creating street art, but it will not be up long enough for people to interact with it. I will most likely be photographing my sculptures, then removing them from the environment they are shot in and placing them in the gallery. I like Jenkins use of sealing tape so I would like to try and manipulate the material for my piece as well. 

Alice in Wonderland Sculpture, Central Park NY - Studio Journal

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Hideo Sasaki and Fernando Texidor

     Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has always been one of my favorite sculptures in Central Park. Seeing the characters of Alice in Wonderland in a natural, outside setting inspired me to shoot my sculptures in an outdoor forest-like environment. I could also manipulate my photography to look like there is a repetition of my sculptures using Photoshop.   

Cecilia Edefalk, "Weeping Birch" - Studio Journal

Installation view of Edefalk's work at Gladstone

Cecilia Edefalk’s bronze works encompass themes of personal, historical, and cultural feelings of knowledge and meaning in everyday life. Molded from one branch, Edefalk creates a repetition of these sculptures to create motions of the natural world.  These bronze works gave me inspiration towards creating repetition in my installation. It may be overwhelming to see and interact with many of one type of sculpture, but I would like to explore this idea of repetition more within my piece.

WHURL, 3D Gallery - Studio Journal

3D Gallery 3: Terrains

After working in 3D last year, in Photo 2, I decided that I would like to incorporate this modern day perspective into my thesis installation. Whether I decide to create an enclosed space or shoot my sculptures in an outdoor environment, I will incorporate a 3D landscape into my piece. If I am able to print a life-size photo, it would further explore my theme of lucid dreaming by incorporating the audience in becoming one with my installation.

Link toWHURL:

http://www.whurl.net/pages/gallery03/4_terrain.php

Alice in Wonderland, Quote - Studio Journal

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

- Alice in Wonderland

Pogo, "Alice" - Studio Journal

Screen Shot

     This screen shot, taken from the music video for Pogo’s song, “Alice”, was composed using vocal samples and different chords recorded from the Disney film, Alice In Wonderland. The jumbled and incoherent sounds give this video a very unusual, strange, and whimsical feeling. This beautifully remixed song brought me to the idea of adding sound to my installation. Using some type of garbled sounds may add to the dream-like experience I would like my audience to take away from seeing my piece.

Link to Pogo's "Alice": 

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=80&height=80&yt=pAwR6w2TgxY&flux=0&direction=bottom_left

Anthropologie, Clothing Store Display - Studio Journal

Floor Display

                  The floor display at a clothing store called Anthropologie, was exactly the kind of inspiration I needed to start looking into other objects I can create in nature. I really liked the contrast of the wood with the cardboard and fabrics. The “nature like“ print on the fabric keeps the environment intact, but it may be interesting to try the same idea with some bright colored fabric and painted cardboard. I also want to see if I am able to find some bark of a tree to manipulate and coincide with the cardboard. In our dreams nothing is usually what it seems to be and things are usually “outta wack” so I think this idea would work well with lucid dreaming as well.

Airan Kang, Light Reading - Studio Journal

Airan Kang's Digital Book Project

     The other week, when I got a chance to walk the galleries in Chelsea, I found myself drawn to these book - shaped sculptures by artist, Airan Kang. Kang's book sculptures are made of resin and LEDs (light emitting diodes.) The books in the exhibition are made to represent depictions of knowledge that realize the pluralistic spaces of our imagination. Kang visited and photographed many libraries and bookstores to recreate these environments.

One of Kang's "hyper books"

     Like Kang, I will be photographing many outdoor environments, to be able to recreate and get inspiration for the installation I will be creating for my senior thesis. I also like the idea of adding LED lights to my sculptures. I am thinking that I could somehow place the lights under some of the mushroom caps that I will be making. Seeing Kang's sculptures brought me inspiration on projecting some kind of video content onto my piece as well. I think that the media will contrast well with the organic beauty I want to convey with my thesis.

"hyper books"

Tetsumi Kudo, Cubes and Gardens - Studio Journal

"I now prophesy the growth of the new ecology in the swamp of "poluted nature" and "decomposing humanity."
-Tetsumi Kudo, 1971

Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule, 1968

    A few weekends ago, on my way home from the gallery I work at on 25th street, I took a walk around the galleries in Chelsea. One of the galleries I went to was the Andrea Rosen Gallery where I got a chance to see work from a very innovative artist named Tetsumi Kudo. Tetsumi Kudo is an artist from Japan who works around the themes of humanity in a polluted, consumption- driven world. Kudo's centerpiece in the exhibition titled, Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule, 1968, gave me some new ideas for my thesis. This cube sized room was made up of black lights, which played off the colors of the large flowers and hanging cages. These sculptures are made to represent "obsolete Humanist values."

Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule, inside view

     Kudo's Space Capsule got me thinking of space. First, I need to remember the fact that I will be sharing the gallery space with the rest of my senior class. I started to come up with some new ways in which I will be able to put my installation in the space. Rather than place my installation up against a wall (where projecting may become an issue with other artists' work), what if I were to make some kind of enclosed space  that people would be able to interact with? Most of my sculptures will be durable for people to touch  so why not create a space where the audience can become apart of my piece.