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Some Space in the Garden

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Some Space in the Garden

Another New Studio

 

I made a trial VR space for the Woolgathering project. The close up fllower bed will be sited in the full garden and accessedby proximity as the player progresses towards the top of the garden. Wandering through the flower bed will eventually lead the player back to the normal scale garden.

 

I also made a 360 video version of the real flower bed to use juxtaposed with the sculpted environment. You can watch the video on Vimeo here.

I spent the rest of the month working on two big drawings of the four sculptures.

Some Space in the Garden

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This is a big drawing done in pastels and water based media.

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The final orientation of each piece will depend on the display environment.

Some Space in the Garden

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The pastels are varnished to keep the colours strong and the texture can be seen moire clearly in the details.

Some Space in the Garden

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Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The October drawings can be seen here

  • Draw Every Day – October 24
    Draw Every Day – October 24
    Draw Every Day - October 24 Continuing to draw every day, began book 20 (a larger ...
    See photo »

…and the September images here

Draw Every Day - September 24 Continuing to draw every day, began book 19 on 25th August and continued using brush pens and a mixture of black, grey, sepia and sanguine ink. The drawings are made any time from 9:00 am at the breakfast table and occasionally later in the day if I'm away from home. The drawings have been posted since the beginning, 6th May 2020, on instagram https://www.instagram.com/latham_1959 You can see previous months through the galleries page https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/galleries or you can go straight to  August's drawings here -
  • Draw Every Day – August 24
    Draw Every Day – August 24
    Draw Every Day - August 24 Continuing to draw every day, finished book 18 on 24th August and ...
    See photo »

There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

The drawings are posted to  Instagram each day.

 

More Woolgathering

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More Woolgathering

Another New Studio

Further research around woolgathering led me to looking again at Ivon Hitchens and in particular an exhibition held at the Garden Museum in 2019.

and its companion exhibition ‘Ivon Hitchens: Space through Colour‘ at the Pallant House Gallery in the same year.

The idea that Hitchens had was that space was colour and vice versa and that the paintings he made were essentially reconstructions of the particular space and time in a lyrical fashion. He talked about the visual music he wanted to compose.

There is also the notion that Hitchens, and other English painters at the time were examing Paul Nash‘s questioning as to whether it was possible to be an ‘English’ Modernist. Apparently the answer is no because Modernism is Internationalist.

This resonates for me because Hitchens was very much attached to the woodland he owned and built a house in and worked consistently from throughout his life. The feeling I have is that this landscape source is specific for the individual even if it becomes universal as it reaches out.

This begins to explain the developments I’m making in this current project.

Wool Gathering 2

woolgathering maquette 02/09/2024

After working on the flower drawings and building the maquette I applied some colour to it to see what I’d got. The thing is that the wire is too thin for what I want for the pieces I have in my mind so I ordered some 6mm steel rod.

Woolgathering Maquette

I built four bases from some of the reclaimed MDF and put together a version of the maquette as a small sculpture.

Woolgathering 06/09/2024

More Woolgathering

I then worked up a drawing of the small sculpture ‘Woolgathering [Flowers 2]’ on one of the big sheets intending to use it as the work in progress piece for my PG2 presentation.

In the end I used the ‘red gardens’ VR environment as a more complete and coherent response.

Flowers 8 09/09/2024

I worked the other drawing up to a finished [?] state and collected some more foam from the vast store of it at the studios.

Woolgathering Maquette 09/09/2024

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The presence of the materials ought to make the building much easier.

More Woolgathering

Woolgathering [Flowers 2] 16/09/2024

I added some pieces into the flowers 2 sculpture and built the ‘tree piece’ over the next couple of weeks.

Woolgathering [Flowers 1] 16/09/2024

Then started the ‘Woolgathering [Flowers 1]’ sculpture, built around a partial cube.

I also stretched some big pieces of paper thus declaring the other two drawings finished.

Woolgathering [Flowers 1] 20/09/2024

The next week I painted the sculpture and added the red flowers.

Woolgathering [Flowers 1] 20/09/2024

More Woolgathering

More Woolgathering

Woolgathering [Flowers 1,2,3,4] 25/09/2024

At the end of September I broke the lethargy and managed to build the ‘Woolgathering [Flowers 3]’ and ‘Woolgathering [Flowers 4]’ sculptures and positioned as I originally intended while I consider painting the new pieces.

I’ve scanned these into Polycam and have worked up blender models ready for 3d and VR.

Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The September drawings can be seen here

  • Draw Every Day – September 24
    Draw Every Day – September 24
    Draw Every Day - September 24 Continuing to draw every day, began book 19 on 25th August and ...
    See photo »

…and the August images here

Draw Every Day - August 24 Continuing to draw every day, finished book 18 on 24th August and continued in new book using brush pens and a mixture of black, grey, sepia and sanguine ink. The drawings are made any time from 9:00 am at the breakfast table and occasionally later in the day if I'm away from home. The drawings have been posted since the beginning, 6th May 2020, on instagram https://www.instagram.com/latham_1959 You can see previous months through the galleries page https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/galleries or you can go straight toJuly's drawings here -
  • Draw Every Day – July 24
    Draw Every Day – July 24
    Draw Every Day - July 24 Continuing to draw every day, finished book 17 on 10th July and ...
    See photo »

There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

The drawings are posted to Threads and Instagram each day.

 

Moore’s Law

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Moore’s Law

Another New Studio

Moore's Law

studio 03/07/24 headset no artist

Apparently “Moore’s Law” is dead, and has been since 2016. The result is that programming has to improve in terms of performance if advancements are going to come at all. Programmers need to make processes more efficient so that less power is needed and the machines can do more without getting significantly faster. Not that anyone will notice this as this as software has for a long time been continually updating so that it outstrips machines every few years and becomes, like streamed music or e-books, something you don’t own you only rent.

This is essentially an aside, as I’ve been looking at ways to update some of my projects so that I can finish them without resorting to acts of destruction as the frustrations mount. Every update makes things harder to resolve and seemingly ignores any idea of intuitive iteration instead opting to completely redesign the wheel with every turn.

Moore's Law

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studio 03/07/24 artist and headset

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At the start of the month I organised the studio to reflect the intended organisation of the objects in a space accompanying the VR environment.

Since when I’ve been researching galleries and other potential display spaces for the work.

Moore's Law

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So when I am in the studio I work on the gardens project VR world or draw. Drawing refocuses me when I get frustrated with the rebuild I’m doing of the gardens project as there are frequent failures and new learning to be done with the software updates.

I found using the paper I protected the floor with when I painted the sculptures gives a good background to draw on.

Moore's Law

maquette drawing 19/07/24

By the end of the month, I’m no further forward with display options, my portable hard drive failed meaning I lost about a weeks work and I’ve dismantled all the sculptures to make more room for new things.

Moore's Law

Studio drawing 26/07/24

Studio from door 31/07/24

Moore's Law

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Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The July drawings can be seen here

  • Draw Every Day – July 24
    Draw Every Day – July 24
    Draw Every Day - July 24 Continuing to draw every day, finished book 17 on 10th July and ...
    See photo »

…and the June images here

  • Draw Every Day – June 24
    Draw Every Day – June 24
    Draw Every Day - June 24 Continuing to draw every day, in book 17 using brush pens and a ...
    See photo »

There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

The drawings are posted to Threads and Instagram each day.