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Building

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Building

(Another New Studio)

I made myself a workbench, a little lower than the display bench, and began to make sculpture based on the lemniscate wave developments. The bench is shown fully in the second image.

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The view of the studio was taken at the end of the day on the 8th June .

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Studio 08-06-2023

I spent time thinking about the small wave print below and decided to make one of the circles into a sphere and to make the brown paper line widen over its length.

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sphere template

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lemniscate_cc_wave

Lemniscate_cc_wave is the basis of this sculpture, the others can be seen here.

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studio 09-06-2023

At the end of the day on the Day on the 9th June you can see I’ve begun to surface the big zero and the brown paper line and I have the foundation of the spherical form on the display bench waiting to be worked over.

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Dark Studio enhanced

I took a very dark photograph on the 8th, that turned out like this with Photoshop automatic tone, colour and contrast.

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Arranging lemn_wave parts

After the weekend I finished covering the two parts of the lemn_wave. The sphere was a problem and I couldn’t get it to work as I wanted so I had two frustrating days.

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Lemn wave with sphere attempt

You can see one of my attempts here. I was also starting to think about the arrangement of the parts and how they might stay in place.

Given the drying time for glues when the parts were being finished I also went back to the redfilms and hung the circles again.

The redfilms are a found response to climate change, a machine made version of a burning garden with everthing carrying on as normal. It is presented as a double video projection with a fifty percent overlap and the videos starting at different times so that the film changes with each viewing. The films can be viewed on Vimeo.

At the last I decided to use the sections I removed from the ‘o’ to make a spherical shape by crossing the two circles and letting that serve as the form.

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Lemniscate wave cc

I think it works.

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Lemniscate wave cc

I also had a go at a drawing while I was thinking about the arrangement of forms.

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Lemniscate wave cc preparatory drawing

 

Circles Films

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Circles Films

(Another New Studio)

Over the last fortnight I set up the installation area, for the moment a projection room, and played around with using both projectors each throwing to a different wall.

While I was playing with the projections I also produced the first piece of work I’ve made in the studio. A drawing of the birds nest I found when the neighbours trimmed the hedge.

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first drawing in the new studio

A simple charcoal drawing on heavy paper. I made a polycam model of the nest itself

Then later made an AR test with the downloaded obj file. The obj, or format of your choice, can be downloaded here.

I wanted to break up the projected images in the installation and decided to make some large circles to to hang in front of the screens. The images below use a projection of the geranium project film and a new red film made from camera trap captures that came out in shades of red, played in sequence and on a loop.

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Red Circles from the right

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The geranium film projected onto the large circles

Doing so meant I emptied my portfolio so I displayed the Durer’s solid drawings that are in progress.

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The Durer’s Solid drawings displayed in the studio

The video felt too small in the space and I wanted to complicate the surface so I used both projectors and set them with the films overlapping by about two thirds of their width. I added in a line of smaller circles cutting across the space.

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Both projectors in the installation overlapping

I have a Vimeo Showcase of film snatches and a longer, 15 min film

There is a gallery page of stills from the  videos

  • Circles Films
    Circles Films
    Circles Films A set of frames from the Circle Films I've been making at the new ...
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And that’s as far as I’ve got

Durer’s Solid and Platonics

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Durer’s Solid and Platonics

Durer's Solid and Platonics

Dodecahedron

In my last post Be a Bit Pirate AR I spoke about working on a small app using platonic solids and I have continued to develop that alongside other things since then. I made models of the solids to act as targets for the app and also used photographs to develop the apps using vuforia .

The models have been scanned using Polycam and can be viewed using this link

When I reached this stage I realised the project needed something else to make it hang together so I found my dialogues and took the appropriate quotations from Timaeus 

and made this version of the app.

I’m in the process of setting up a Google Play developer account so that it can be easily downloaded when it’s complete.

I made a model of Durer’s solid when I was building the other models, and a set of drawings.

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    Durer’s Solid
    Durer's Solid I made this model of Durer's Solid from the etching Melancolia 1  and ...
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Alongside this I applied for a couple of grants, the one I got is effectively a purchase award from the DGLAM Culture Fund, this was my accepted proposal.

“The work would consist of a set of five black and white drawings of the platonic solids. Each of these would be linked to an augmented reality application allowing further illustration, animation and colour to be seen on screen when the drawing was viewed through the app. The platonic solids were named for the philosopher who proposed that the classical elements, earth, air, fire and water were associated with them. The enhanced virtual content, displayed through the app, would reflect Doncaster through the lens of these qualities; A virtual representation of the cube from the drawing in the bandstand at Hexthorpe Park for instance to reflect Earth. The application would show AR content from different areas of the city for each drawing.”

Most of the work I do can be seen on my website

Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day; I filled sketchbook 9 on 13th April and have begun No. 10. The March drawings can be seen here

  • Draw Every Day – March 23
    Draw Every Day – March 23
    Draw Every Day - March 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
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…and the February images here

  • Draw Every Day – February 23
    Draw Every Day – February 23
    Draw Every Day - February 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using ...
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There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

The drawings are posted to Twitter and Instagram each day.