mayan temple - embeded video

I've come to see my building as resembling a temple ( a knocked over one maybe); as something that is climbed; a forced physical engagement with the form of the building. This idea is enacted in the extreme by the tourists at the latter part of this youtube video, who find themselves sliding down the stairs of a Mayan temple on their bums because of lack of a comforting handrail.

Artworks in Studios

Fiona Hall: Nelumbo nucifera; nelum (Sinhala); thamareri (Tamil);


Rosalie Gascoigne Plain View 2, 1994

TEXTURES & SECTIONS

Artist's Materials & Process

Fiona Hall
Nelumbo nucifera; nelum (Sinhala); thamareri (Tamil); lotus, 1999

Artwork Materials: aluminium and steel

The series of artworks this work is a part of Paradisus Terrestris 1999 consists of found objects chiefly sardine cans. The can is slightly opened to reveal carefully embossed metal, formed into the shape of human anatomy, in this case a belly. The base of the can is flipped out so it appears to grow out from the human anatomy, this is carefully filigreed (form of ornamentation usually formed by gold or silver twisted wire) into the form of flora.

sources:

• Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/17/Fiona_Hall/182/35713/
  

• "the art of Fiona Hall" - education kit, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 2005
  

Rosalie Gascoigne
Plain View 2, 1994

Artwork Materials: Timber and Masonite 101.5 × 83.5cm

Gascoigne's artworks always started from found objects, materials that had been left exposed to the weather, using objects that come from the landscape to create unorthodox portraits of the landscape. She considered herself an Assembler. In works such as Plain View 2, Gascoigne usually cut the found objects into the desired form and arranged them in straight lines. The result being a gridded, ordered arrangement.

sources:

• Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/15/Rosalie_Gascoigne/550/40113/
• Felicity Fenner, Landscape of Shards, Art in America Feb, 1999 p88-91
  

Stair: 2nd sketchup & section sketches

Here is my second section choice, the words it responds to are above: Amalgamate, below: Passionless. I don't feel that I reflected the essence of the words well in the sketch, however I chose this one because it gave me an idea about how I could integrate the stairs into the form of a building...
and here is the subsequent model showing the interior.




Here is a couple of section sketches for a stair that is actually two sets, but I consider them to be conceptually the same (except that one is internal and the other external), the interior version can be seen in the screenshot above, and below...
... is the exterior (roof) version screenshot.

This is a section sketch for another stair concept for this building, leading into the basement, and below is the screenshot of it's Sketchup fruition...

1st Sketchup model & section sketch

Amalgamate
Disable

Rosalie Gascoigne

Rosalie Gascoigne, Plain View 2, 1994

Pastels, Amalgamate, Weathered

Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt Job Hunt, 1976, 1994

Adolescent, Disable, Passionless

Fiona Hall

Fiona Hall Nelumbo nucifera; nelum (Sinhala); thamareri (Tamil); lotus, 1999

Receptacle, Germinate, Fused

Original photograph of something beautiful

This is a lookout on the north coast of Tasmania, it was a still, foggy and foreboding day when I took this shot. I love this shot because it looks like the steps from some school have disappeared and miraculously popped up on a cliff edge. The contrast between human's version of a solid structure and nature's is striking, they are both beautiful, one for it's simplicity, and the other for it's organic complexity. We watched the Spirit of Tasmania chugging plumes of smoke as it went towards mainland Australia from here.

Image of great piece of Architecture

Tama Art University Library by Toyo Ito
I think this building is spectacular, I would have liked to show more photos because it's interior spaces are equally gorgeous. The combination of grandeur and openness is striking. I particularly like the ground floor because the Architect has retained the gradient of the land it is built on, subtly incorporating the interior space with its exterior surroundings.

Creative Piece

Installation of Video Artwork at Carriageworks, Eveleigh 2007. Not a piece of creative work from High School (its been a while since I was there) but a creative piece that I was quite pleased with all the same. A piece of video art projected onto the floor of a hallway. The video used looping, distortion and fragmentation of old footage to build abstract evolving landscapes. The piece was projected onto the floor of the hallway leading to the toilets, deliberately forcing anyone who wished to use the loo to have to pass through it and subsequently become part of the artwork.