[Sketchbook]Site observation

It is part of the industrial complex, this large steel structure used for transport sugar cane to the inside of the mill. This huge structure connects with sugar mill with only one conveyor.  All the remaining equipment here lead me to think about the time when here still full of human activities. Trucks of sugar cane came to sugar mill one after another and workers works on the giant machines, everything was moving from one place to another. But now without any activities even people, the place is pretty hollow and quiet.

[Reflection 03]

As a large place, different features of the components in the site will effect people's experience. Like the height contrast between industrial and agricultural space; The skyline of the industrial complex; Some color fading sign looks like telling you an old story. I'm learning from the artist Jack whitten to combine the different elements(Images and Drawings) from the site to represent the site, but every little pieces has its own story. 

Invention 03 Jack Whitten

What I want to learn from these works of the artist Jack Whitten is using paint as a medium. Transforming paint compounds into tiles, and applying them to the canvas as mosaics, but zoom in the small squares, they have their own stories. Also, the color he used provide a contrast but clear vision to people.

[development project 01]

So here is the development of the project 01--the Industrial space, I try to combine the most unique features in this space to create a image: the stack, weed and the huge industrial complex.

[Project 01] Narrating the story

1.Agricultural fields

Features: Flat,dark deep soil, special terrace, in use

2.Industrial complex

Higher elevation, tall bright chimney stack, huge steel structures,abandoned

3. Relationship between the fields and Cinclare sugar mill 

Reflection 02

What I learned from the abstraction works of artists in 1950s France is how they abstracting the important elements in cartographic maps to their drawings. 

One of the important features of the site is the plantations that located northern and southern to the  industrial complex. Although once the industrial district was considered rural and even isolated, Cinclare is now pressed by development on several fronts. However, the immediate area surrounding the district is still planted in sugar cane, thus retaining much of its historic appearance.

Invention 02 French abstraction of 1950s

In the 1940s, these painters experimented with abstraction and large format canvases loaded with paint, pattern, and texture. They worked in Paris after the Second World War, a time of intense creativity and renewal in France. 

·What I want to learn from these works is how they use and overlap paint, pattern, texture on the canvases. I could use the same method to try to abstracting the important elements in cartographic maps and other landscape features of the site.