[Project06] Diorama

Screen

First layer shows the skyline of the site, the shadow that project on the screen also can show the heaviness of the industrial elements.

Second layer shows the panorama of the site, to provide a background of the whole place to audience. The green field also shows the wildness and broadness of the site.

Put all the layers together into the screen box

Place all the stuff on the boxes, make light bulb through the installation

Then turn on the light!

[ Invention]Model make

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTu2lLcs9Q

panorama

[Invention] Kara Walker shadow puppets and other technic

Kara Walker shadow puppets

Other technic

A gobo (or GOBO) derived from "Go Between" or "Goes Before Optics" is a physical template slotted inside, or placed in front of, a lighting source, used to control the shape of emitted light.

In the design of an artificial environment in which lighting instruments are used, it is sometimes desirable to manipulate the shape of the light which is cast over a space or object. To do so, a piece of metal with patterned holes through which light passes is placed in the beam of light to allow only the desired "shape" or pattern through, while blocking the rest of the light, casting a specific shadow/light into the space.

[Project 04] Emphera

This drawing is for project 04 emphara. It focuses on the motility and sensorial data of wind of the site. The data is the average for 3 different days in every week and is collected by the local weather station of the site. It shows how the wind changes through places and time in one day. Firstly, I traced the available paths of the site and use it as the base drawing. The fine white lines represent the wind and it collaborates with the short yellow line in the circle to show the direction of the wind in specific spots of the site (Mostly from the south and east). The size of the circle means speed of the wind in each spot, the bigger, the stronger. In order to enrich the drawing, I also add the time into it. On the top of the drawing(In the direction of north), the white illuminated line shows the sun light in one day, which represent the sun rise from east and down to the west. The yellow number above it shows the specific time and the blue dot lines are the time line. The color of the circle means the speed of the wind in one day, the darker, the stronger. You can also see the exact parameter of the wind speed in the drawing.

[Project 06] Installation design

For the project 06, I want to construct a three-dimensional art work to present panorama and diorama. I will have different layers to present foreground, middle ground and background, and  then overlay all the layers on one screen.

Test printing 

[However, because the sheet is too sleek that the color can not stick on it pretty well..I will try other transparent materials to test]

Draft of the installation design that I was inspired from shadow play and  revolving scenic lantern.

one of the layers is about the field of the site, based on the first image of project 05. It will be printed on a clear sheet as the foreground

Second layer is about the industrial complex, that I want to present it by the shadow( Learn from the traditional Chinese folk art). I'm thinking about using laser cut to cut out the shape of steel structure. Using shadow to present industrial area can also show the features of dark, heavy, straight line of geometrical shape of industry.And this is the middle ground.

Third layer will be the background on the wall, to show the other elements of the site, like horizontal line, skyline..

This art installation will present horizontally continuous on each sheet(Layer) and also shows the spatial depth by overlaying all the images from each layer on one screen.

[Site observation] Photo of the site

[Project 04] development

 Learn from the other diagrams about wind, I made this wind diagram of the site. It tracks wind direction(Lines), Speed(Radius) and  temperature(hue) measurements from the local weather station.

[Project 05] development

 The first image shows the seasonal change of the field, from winter to now. I took the pictures in the moving cars to create the feeling of motion and focus on the ground line to connect all the pictures from different time and places.

The second image focuses on the industrial complex, it shows the views when you walking  to the complex in long distance to short distance, which shows the view of the buildings from small to large. I edit the pictures in Photoshop to change the original size of the existing  elements, like the grass, poles and chimney stack to make it pop out. This broken gaps in non-linear movement, differentiates the perspectives and emphasize the details of the site.

The idea of  the last image shows the relationship between the abandoned steel structure and weed. From left to right shows the view from outside of the structure to inside, i learned the skill from Stan Brakhage’s work, to create episodic timing, broken gaps in non-linear movement, focusing on details of texture, surrounding plants and then pulling back to create emptyness in this work.

[Invention] 2D Maps and diagrams of wind

http://hint.fm/wind/

A pair of recent info visualizations look as though they were painted by Vincent van Gogh. Wind map shows the realtime flow of wind over the United States.

US wind pattern

http://www.senchalabs.org/philogl/PhiloGL/examples/winds/

http://rpm.nrel.gov/refhighre/expansion/expansion.html

[Invention] 05 Stan Brakhage

There are several useful skills I learned from Stan Brakhage’s work, like “how he creates episodic timing, broken gaps in non-linear movement, focusing on details and then pulling back to create emptyness" in his work.

1. Mothlight

For example, his "Mothlight" (1963) is a literal recreation of the moth movement and vision made by sealing moth's wings, flowers, blades of grass, etc. between strips of clear film.  

As Brakhage himself put it: “Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

Also the way he paints over photographed imagery is pretty interesting too

2. The Dante Quartet 

The Dante Quartet (1987), in the "Purgation" segment, colors and images collide with and grind against each other, and in "Existence Is Song," contrasting colors, moonscapes, and volcanoes burst forth like an acre of flowers blooming.

3. Stellar

Brakhage, with deft sensitivity and imagination, re-produces the difference between Being and beings in the films Stellar (1993),  for these films, while one might refer to them as light and color studies, are more aptly conceived in terms of the glaring absence of light, these films are dominated by the intrusion of Chaos and night on the subject’s conscious efforts to establish a terrestrial grounding amidst the groundless chasm of Being. Brakhage remarks about Stellar that it is “a visual envisioning of outer space,” and the void plays a dominant role in this film, for while brilliant, fleeting flashes of luminescent celestial forms emerge, are born, in a variety of brilliant hues, they just as quickly “burn out” as they are extinguished and consumed by the abyss from out of which they arose.