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Not Building and Building

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Not Building and Building

(Another New Studio)

Lemniscate wave cc sculpture

lemniscate with ribbon sphere

The inherent frustration when making anything has been rearing its head for the last week. I tried to work out a solution to the sphere at the centre of ‘lemniscate wave cc’ and it felt totally unsatisfactory. The problem here is that the sphere doesn’t fit with the forms around it and it appears as if the torus and the flash are simply supports for it. I’m not keen on articulating why things don’t work because I’m never sure I can, but I was left feeling uneasy. As a result I decided to strip the sphere back and paint it with the Tile Red doorstep paint I used for some of the drawings.

Building and Not Building

Lemniscate Wave cc with Front step paint

Torus sculpture made from Lemniscate ribbon sphere

Torus sculpture made from Lemniscate ribbon sphere

I was able to use the paper I stripped off the sphere, together with the scrap from the Doncaster Platonics drawings to build a small torus sculpture that I ought to recognise as an avoidance strategy.

Doncaster Platonics Water (New)

Doncaster Platonics Water (New)

Returning to the Doncaster Platonics [UKSPF Art Grant]. I completed the report for the council and submitted it so I’m waiting for their contact to arrange a visit. I did find that the original drawing for water (the icosahedron) did not work effectively as a target so I replaced it with this new drawing.

Studio 19 July 2023

Studio 19 July 2023

I’ve got the five drawings framed up now, the frames altogether ended up costing about half the grant awarded, and I started work on the unity/vuforia file for the app. There is a small version of the Doncaster Minster  photographs and a quick, jerky, test of the tageting of the dodecahedron for the heavens. The Minster film will have a soundscape recorded in the grounds with the strangely curtailed electronic bells chiming at 12:30 Wednesday.

On days when I don’t go in to the c-view studio I’ve been doing some drawing/sketching in the attic studio at home. As much as anything to keep my hands busy when I’m thinking about the things I’m not achieving.

Drawing of Platonic Solids

Drawing of Platonic Solids

This is a small drawing of the platonic solid models I made at the beginning of the process and below is a drawing of one of the torii sculptures from February.

sketch of torii Maquette

sketch of torii Maquette

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

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.

Circles Films

Red Circles from the right

Circles Films

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.

Circles Films

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.

Circles Films

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

Another New Studio

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Another New Studio

Another New studio

The empty studio

I took the plunge and moved into a new studio away from the house. It’s expensive but more professional!

I oved into the space above on Tuesday 2nd May.

Another new studio

floor covered with dpc plastic

On Wednesday 3rd May I got a roll of dpc plastic and covered the floor.

Another New Studio

Moving in Day

On Friday 5th May I moved all the stuff down to the studio in a van and started to assemble the installation that will sit in the middle of the space.

Another New Studio

A view of the studio with the installation

We’ve had a run of bank holidays, what with Charlie’s hat and so on, so I didn’t get back to the studio until Tuesday 9th May when I finished assembling the installation and a seperate space for storage.

Another New Studio

First Coat of Paint

On Thursday the 11th I managed to give all the structures a first coat of paint and set up the computer and VR headset. I needed to do some gardening on Wednesday as it wasn’t raining.

Platonics

I continued to work on the platonics app after the last post and whilst I’m not completely pleased with it I decided to put it onto the play store as a test. It’s remarkably easy and took a couple of days total. It’s a fairly involved process though so it’s worth making a list and preparing your materials. it is particularly worth creating a set of screen shots and getting your publicity materials in order before you start. It’s on as a test in that I’m not publicising it other than on here.

platonics_timaeus is now on the play store.

The website link for the images is http://ian-latham.com/timaeus/

platonics_timaeus ad

platonics_timaeus feature graphic

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

Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The April drawings can be seen here

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

The drawings are posted to Twitter and Instagram each day.