Note

This is my blog/online workbook documenting; exercises, thoughts, ideas and processes for my studio paper 213.158 Art Place.

I originally started using a physical workbook to illustrate my progress through the paper but have since decided to make the switch to an online form of documentation so please bear with my first few posts which are pictures of my physical workbook.

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Friday, 10 October 2014

New ideas for POWER

Looking around our room, I felt like we needed to expand on the triangular themes which were inhabiting one side of the room in Skye and Mikayla's work.
So how to interpret that in power...
I remembered when I was younger and my mum had demonstrated the power of the pyramids.
The shape of the pyramid is said to create an energy, and I remembered she demonstrated it by holding a pendulum over the tip of it, and the pendulum would spin in circles.
I got her to show me again and I videoed it.


I was excited to see that it still worked and was thinking of creating a pyramid to have as a floor sculpture and have a pendulum strung from the ceiling above it. The longer the cord, the more freedom the pendulum would have to swing wider as well.

I was also thinking I might still be able to utilise my desire to use a light source of some form. I was wondering about hanging a curtain of fabric from the ceiling down to the floor around the exhibit - in the shape like Anthony McCall had his light beams - in a cone like shape - so that you have to go inside to witness it. Plus, then it would restrict the pendulum from flying out too wide. It would also mean I could cast shadows on the inside of the fabric.

I decided to test the pendulum by hanging it from a string above the pyramid - just to confirm that it would work.

Guess what?
It didn't work! :(
I was confused and guttered to find that the whilst the pyramid is an energy source, in order to make the pendulum swing it actually harnesses the human energy on the other end of the pendulum.