Trip Display 3D

This particular experiment is an attempt to compile various trips I have taken in my life. This is comprehensive in a way that it will depict each walk to school, each driven trip to work, each vacation (special location).

These are depicted as a linear shape, cut out and placed onto a bar in a way that they each have their own abstract form. I may color code them as to distance or event.

One thought is to have them relate as equally as possible. A 0.7 mile walk to school will equal a 20 mile drive to work, etc.

Not sure yet as to how this will be displayed, but this concept of having them work like a mobil or linear display to let them move freely is one idea.

Life in Maps Project

In the process of depicting my various homes, paths and distances being traced and then converted into an abstract of my movements in life.

I have been listing out locations and point-to-point trips I made in multiple ways. Walking to school. Walking home to a babysitter. Driving to college. The locations of all of the teams I played against in sports (I had never really looked at the relationships between the different small farming towns we were associated with). Driving to Work. Moving from northern CA to southern CA and the patterns that were derived from that. Also, our life moves from southern CA to Arizona.

 

Some Thoughts on Ravens & Crows

Some thoughts on ravens and crows.

Eames: Powers of Ten

Meta: denoting something of a higher or second-order kind.

Macro: very large in scale, scope, or capability.

Micro: minute in scope or capability.

See levels of observation. Charles & Ray Eames Powers of Ten film.

Thoughtful Mashups

Poetic Synthesis, Linking older work to newer work, Finding a “Golden Thread” in my lifetime of work. Examine poetic knowledge, poetic critique - possibly the work of Donald Kuspit.

Continue with the search for the parallels in meaning, especially how my faith informs my work. Faith informed process? What does that look like?

Pop Surrealism / Pop Expressionism: Both allow a contemporary context for all of the varied, and disjointed issues that may arise in one artwork.

Consider a work of art to have as many as 10 layers of meaning. Each level of depth may be a possible new direction. What motivates or drives each new work? How does my audience affect my work?

There are many audiences for my work, can there be something for each of them in the depth of it?

Take notice of the visual mapping, grids, diagrams, patterns, connections that continually take place in your ideas.

Imagine walking the same grounds, yet each time, with more experiences and new insights the paths change. Or the paths become more granular — you see new, and more intricate directions to go. Somewhat like walking up a mountain, each turn of the path allows new vistas of the same landscape. The next elevation and angle you attain becomes a completely new view. This can be a means of discovery and development of who you already are.

Study Meta, Macro, Micro levels of observation. Charles & Ray Eames Powers of Ten film.

A place to go to when in dire need.

 Some of my early sculpting on an idea of the specific redwood tree as a sanctified example. On Sunday I was reminded of how a tree is one thing while it is alive and once cut down we think of it as being "dead" but it has gone on to become something else. I thought of the horror of the cross. It was used to bring us life. A tree had to be cut down and used for that purpose. What might that tree have looked like? How amazing that one tree out of many can be considered for that duty. A common tree for an uncommon end.

This sculpture showing a long trunk and a carved chair is my first attempt at creating a 3D version of the sketches from an earlier post. This will be with the mindset of these trees being redwoods. I am not sure of the way to depict scale, but I am working on that concept now.

One of my favorite places on earth: Patrick's Point State Park, near Trinidad, CA.

http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-a-Redwood-Tree

On the subject of Trees

In searching out the tree species and method of capturing a tree's essence I found this article.


Middle Fork - MadArt from John Grade on Vimeo.