Own Work: Contradictions In Concrete Book January 2014

For an upcoming crit I have decided to combine elements of my work on the concrete blocks and the elements as tools photography into a book. The book takes inspiration once again from El Lisstizsky as a running theme of perverting the modernist era with natural forces. I also played around with creating prouns for each element as an accompaniment.

Own Work: Making Blocks December 2013

Based on results from the tile, I decided that is was better to allow natural entropy to take place on samples with a much wider scope for spontaneous results. I choose to experiment in concrete (due to its use in brutalism and modernist Utopian visions) and categorised 7 different entropy methods: Heat, Force, Water, Plants, Pioneer Plants, Soil, and Wind.

Force

 Pioneer

Heat

 Plant

 Soil

 Wind

Water

Own Work: Ordered Form Versus Chaos November 2013

 

Experiment to create a juxtaposition between a pure form; in this case a ceramic glazed white tile, with that of a chaotic deterioration. Pioneer species and dirt were intoruduced into a artificailly produced fissue in the moulding process. It was decided in the end that their was an issue with the creation of the crack that ran against the natural decay aim of the project.

 

Own Work - Photography: Emulsion Lifts Gone Wrong

 For a previous project I worked on Polaroid emulsion lifts to convey a chaotic natural element (water) to something man made. I decided due to the success of this to manipulate the process by layering 2 images, one over another to show the juxtaposition between controlled environment and uncontrolled. I choose to do this in the setting of Barbican in London (A popular modernist development). Unfortunately the effect didn't make the message clear and so in large respects was a failure, however I did get some interesting distorted negatives from the back of the Polaroid film, which have proven much more interesting (below emulsion lifts).

Film - Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski: Cloud Atlas

Zachry: Who tripped the Fall, if not Old Georgie?

Meronym: True-true? The Old Uns.

Zachry: That's just a rope o'smoke. Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky.

Meronym: True. All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart.

Zachry: Hunger? For what?

Meronym: A hunger for more.

Isaac Sachs: Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity and Principles of Uncertainty: phenomenon that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday I believed that I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. At each point of intersection, each encounter suggests a new potential direction. 

Architecture - Witherford Waston Mann: Astley Castle c.2013

The Astley family had the castle built in Nuneaton, North Warwickshire in the 12th Century. The development is seated sensitively within the ruins allowing visitors to experience the history in a living context. Communal spaces have been placed upstairs to allow for better visibility with the ruins on a longer time span in the day.

The idea creates a palimpsestic living arrangement where the history can be read in the environment and lost stories imagined.

Source: http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/riba-stirling-shortlist-2013-astley-castle-warwickshire/

Photography/Installation - Noemie Goudal: Haven Her Body Was c.2012

Noemie Goudal's photography in 'Haven Her Body Was' creates narrative and story-telling by juxtaposing the artificial, with that of the natural. When we encounter oppositional meanings within a space, it creates a thought process where we are forced to exam the context behind each, awakening our senses and memories. In the urban environment we rarely stop to think, and dwell upon the reasons and history behind each action we take and what we consider to be the accepted. The stories creep through like a patchwork of broken and blurred memories that seems to take hold of us all and completely for these seconds that we let it, and we become apart of that space. Before it is dismissed, we move on, and the feeling fades.

I find this motion captivating, moments where we consider what is real, and what we choose to dream.

Combat

Iceberg

Reservoir

Stereo-plates

Trail

Warren

Well

Source: http://www.noemiegoudal.com