BPNY – day 5

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

This island is fucking transforming I tell you! It’s amazing how much infrastructure they’ve built here and how many pavilions have been constructed in such a short span! Oh, and that humongous 12-storey tall structure across the way from us, that’s a zip line to the other side of the festival! No shit! You go up, way up, then grab a zip line that will carry you several hundred feet and nearly to the terra firma, over the heads of the crowd enjoying a concert below! This place is fucking nuts!

On our installation front, not too much activity today. Got in late thanks to my roomies busting into my room at 5am, laughing and piling on top of me – that’s love for ya! Spent most of the day installing small detail work and fabricating the two town buildings that are supposed to be some future contemporary art museum in Budapest (the MEO perhaps? link to old NYTimes article) – can’t remember exactly. Also did several tests and only just before leaving figured out how to fabricate the skyways and pedestrian sky-tunnels and walkways around the city, using another odd foam material that’s slightly pliable and can be twisted between building structures.

How many days do we have left?

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Day 5 Flick set

the progression of a work

Monday, January 8th, 2007

this is a new piece i made last night; spent around three hours producing this, and i should say this is only a test work. I wanted to see what the shape and silhouette look like, so I can have an idea of how the final works will function.

concepts later; for now the process for this sculptural sketch is: enlarge the source image; tape the enlarged prints together; cut out the flag; outline the shape; cut out the shape with a jigsaw; paint white.

this material was a scrap of sound-proofing board, so I used it for this test-work. Eventually it is my goal to have these works free-standing – so the idea is to move towards 3/4″ or 1″ plywood. The more I think about it, I don’t think it’s necessary for the final works to be painted; originally this was done to increase the visibility of the work – high contrast – against the blue floor. Also because the surface and texture of the sound-proofing board is quite unpleasant, as opposed to plywood which is rich in color and textures. However I think unpainted plywood will hold its own fine, and there is no need to paint the surface. Contrast or the shape of the silhouette can be accented by other means: backlit by the sun; lit from an angle so the shadow becomes another work; etc.