Vilde J. Rolfsen | Plastic bag landscapes

Series of photographes created by photographing plastic bags

Series of photographes created by photographing plastic bags

Series of photographes created by photographing plastic bags

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Series of photographes created by photographing plastic bags

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Series of photographes created by photographing plastic bags

Instead of throwing the plastic bags, Vilde J. Rolfsen used these rather cheap materials to make landscapes. These plastics used are not even bought but found in the streets. She uses trash and transform it into an art. She wanted to express how humans take simple materials for granted and not really looking at the beauty of simple, everyday things. The used, crumpled plastics, often seen as unwanted and old is what makes her installation special.

I see her work as an inspiration when it comes to materials.

Site:

http://www.arch2o.com/ordinary-plastic-bag-vilde-j-rolfsen/

http://vilderolfsen.com/plastic_bag_landscapes-1

Feedback from Guest Seniors – 16 Oct, Friday

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1/ Do not read from slides

2/ Change title. Make it known that it is a tentative title, working title.

3/ Start photograph spaces in ADM. Start choosing a space. Suggested: Outside photography room, from 3rd to 2nd storey, empty space in front of staircase.

4/ Explore more materials. Think of budget while doing.

5/ Start making and realise problems to create solutions.

6/ Can explore on origami, paper folding (materials exploration)

7/ Use math and science to make research more ‘legit’.

8/ Can look into poems of lily.

9/ Research on artists who uses flowers and lilies as part of their project.

10/ Check out Maya Lin, Grace Tan etc. Singapore artists.

11/ Check out esplanade.

12/ Have Mr Louis-Phillippe Demers as Co-Professor, and study more on scenography.

13/ Check slides!! I missed out one slide while presenting and had to present through my book instead. Always check slides.

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Yasuaki Onishi is a sculpture artist who studied in University of Tsukuba and Kyoto City University of Arts. In this particular installation, he is very interested in the ‘invisible’, the negative, the void, the unseen spaces. He mapped out the start of the void with the plastic sheeting and filled the spaces up with black melted hot glue.

His perspective on negative spaces is very interesting. He manage to reveal the usually neglected space into a focal point. The choice of materials here was also a smart move. Simple materials like plastic and hot glue gun allows him to cut cost on the project. Not only that, the flexibility of a plastic makes it easier for it to capture the negative space in an organic form.

Site:

http://www.ricegallery.org/yasuaki-onishi/

New Growth: Stratum Field

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New Growth: Stratum Field by Kendall Buster

Kendall Buster is a professor from Virginia Commonwealth University. This installation is a study of simplicity. Revolving around the horizontal and vertical, her lines are clean which compliments the materials used to create the work, white polycarbonate panels.

With a background of sculpture and microbiology, Buster’s aim of this project was to express her definition of ‘architectural biology’.

Site:

http://www.scadmoa.org/art/exhibitions/new-growth-stratum-field

https://www.scad.edu/event/kendall-buster-exhibition-new-growth-stratum-field

 

Math and Patterns

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The number 7 and 3 are very distinct in this flower. For each leaves, there are only 7 lines of veins. No matter how large the leaves may grow into, the number of veins is still constant. And lilies comes in a form of multiples of 3. 3 petals, 3 sepals, 6 stamen and 3 carpels in a stigma. Not so sure on what I can do with this information but it could come in handy in the future.

Mind Map of FYP

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My mind map was highly inspired by the mapping of contours. But in this case, instead of measuring an existing site and creating a 2D map of the contours, I allow the mind map to take control of the shape. Not knowing what the outcome of the structure and just slowly adding layers to the structure was very interesting. There was a sense of exploring and experimenting but with a perimeter.

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New Title: Hybrid

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Hybrid is a contemporary art installation which focuses on the visual and physical experience where the essence of nature is infused into a human creation. The flower, lily, (the point of nature) is chosen to be the focal point of this project where I will analyse the anatomy and science, and explore the metaphorical and artistic meaning behind that flower.
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Infographic is highly used in this project where I will map out every movement and growth of the flower and organise every piece of information found related to it. From a flat, 2D infographic, I am going to explore on how to express my findings and research into a 3D form thus, creating an installation. Highly influenced by Richard Serra, each of my installation will carry a message yet still echoing the essence of a lily.

Old works: Mapping of the Hands of a Pianist

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I came across one of my old works from my Poly days and I thought that this could be one of ways I could start working on my piece. This in a sculpture made out of layers mounting boards. The shape was derived from the mappings of the hands of a pianist.

It was suppose to be longer, depicting the length of the song but I chose to focus on a particular part of the song where the left and right hand intertwine where the left, which was suppose to be the base is playing the melody instead and vice versa.

This sculpture was created on various types of mappings from literally drawing the hands and analysing the movement to creating a graphs and understanding the measurements of each shift. It was quite mathematical at one point of time as I was trying to push my boundaries on creating logic to the sculpture rather than creating an art piece based on my own intuition.