Mnemosyne Scent – Planar Sculptures

Hello World!

A day ago, I told my sister I was working with paper and the world of planes…

So, no pressure.

Once again, I’m introduced into the world of planes.

What are planes, you might ask? Well – imagine a line as a dot that went for a walk, but this time, a plane is a line that went for a walk. There are many ways for a line to go for a walk. Let’s look at some 2D planes!

Putting many planes together makes a fancy, schmancy sculpture too.

But sometimes a we can see planes as three-dimensional!

And when we makes them a sculpture, it looks something like this!

But wait, what if we looked at three-dimensional planes and mix it up with a little Pandora’s Box and Gaia’s Ikebana and consider dominant, sub-dominant and sub-ordinates too? Well, time to get to work cutting up some paper.

If you noticed, yes, I cut paper until it was night time. I may got carrried away with paper cutting.

 

This is Simon the Snake. He likes spaghetti.

For this sculpture, I tried to incorporate the idea of suspension and not just confining the planes to the base. I also played with the idea of piercing the subdominant through a third of the dominant. Varying the directions of the elements creates a sense of movement and the spiral of the subordinate emphasize the fluidity in movement.

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This is Hubert the Hydra, he’s a more penne sorta guy.

For this sculpture, I tried to utilize broken planes, and honestly was not really fond of the way it looks origami-ed in. Perhaps more exploration/research with broken planes are due. However, I ‘extended‘ the dominant in this figure and really like how it twirls around the subdominant in a sort of wave/wind-like manner! Perhaps utilizing long, long planes would build some dynamism in the sculpture!

Reflection

Somehow I really like how clean twisted/curved bends on the paper. Creating broken planes somehow makes the sculpture look crumpled which I personally  do not like the look of. However planes was, to me, a different element as firstly there are two dimensions to consider, length and width of the paper, however creating movement and folding the paper changes the overall length of the plane which makes it look shorter in a way and creates depth by curling in or outwards.

There is an element of discipline involved in ensuring not to get too carried away with the swilring and twirling that the other elements cannot be seen, but I seem to always struggle with finding a place to slot my subordinate.

I’m still unsure about complex/grouped planes, but I hope to get that clarified soon!

But here are some questions.

1. When we consider length of the plane if it’s twisted, curved or broken do we look at the overall length once its bent or do we look at the actual length of the original plane?

2. What is grouped planes? Is Complex planes complex because it travels in two axis?

3. How do we determine the principle axis of a plane?

4. For this assignment, are we limited to rectilinear shapes or can we explore triangles as well?

5. Are we allowed to vary the usage of curved and broken planes in one D/SD/SO or are we limited to only curving or only breaking per plane?

okay bye.

3 Replies to “Mnemosyne Scent – Planar Sculptures”

  1. 1) Look at overall length

    2) Refer to assignment brief, ‘Complex axis planes’ and ‘Grouped planes’ are explained there.

    3) The principal axis of a plane is the central axis that runs along its longest length. (*similar to rectilinear volumes)

    4) Play with rectilinear strips first. Will explain trimming of strips later on.

    5) A single plane can display more than one quality. (ie. it can transform in space from a 2D to a 3D plane etc.) But it should not do too many ‘gymnastic acts’… limit to 2 or 3 transformations/ per strip.

    Hope that helps for the moment Fendi.

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