Concepts - Materiality and Process Assignment one Week two

Q. Using found or recycled material make three complete objects using three different processes.

Material Cardboard

Object 1. torn cardboard soaked in boiling water left to dry out a bit till damp.
A small glass wrapped in cling film was used for the mold.
ala cone moth style but adhered with PVA glue pieces were attached to one another.
www.brisbaneinsects.com




















Object 2. Imagine cross sections of an object. I cut out the flat pieces in cardboard from small to wide to small again stacked and adhered.
















Object 3. woven cardboard.

Glass studio, Week 2

Glassyness project. This mind map was accompanied by Almond brittle, Amber and Damselfly wings..all kinda glassy

The amber reminded me a bit of Emma Varga's glass which I love.

Making brittle is very glass like in the way that it is liquid, you can mould it or pull it into long threads at the right temperature and when it cools you can shatter it like glass in its super cool liquid state.

glassyness
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/626891/Glass_mind_map

We also presented the first bit of research on our time line,

i found that 30,000 bc was a tad early for any 'glass' as such but humans were using Obsidian.

a naturally formed glass from volcanoes

Glass tech, week 2

Marcus walked us around the different areas of the glass studio:

Hot shop
Kiln room
Cold working
Mould room
Sandblasting
Gluing
Flameworking

A quick rundown of all machinery was given.

Concepts - Materiality and Process Research journal Week two

Q. Research 3 Artists in your studio. (Glass). Try to find artists who use unconventional approaches to their work.


Dale Chihuly
www.chihuly.com
Blown from a height
Chihuly is a maker even though he doesn't so much make, as direct his ideas now. He paints colouful concepts for his team and works with them through the blowing process. He has been accused and criticised of spectacular-ism (not such a bad thing in my book considering where that has pushed glass as an art medium) Such criticism is expressed adroitly in "thinking through craft" (Adamson 2007)














Bio from Dale Chihuly's web site

Tevita Havea


http://www.anu.edu.au/art/GradShow2005/slide40.html
http://www.wexlergallery.com/artists/glass/havea/index1.php
http://glasscentralcanberra.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/the-art-of-tevita-havea/
ccas link to Tevita
http://glasscentralcanberra.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/hunks-of-glass-the-curatorial-overview/



Jess Loughlin
cast glass. "Glass as canvas"

http://glasscentralcanberra.wordpress.com/?s=jess

"I see these forms as freestanding pictures that use light as their
canvas" Jessica Loughlin 2008.

Hot Shop, Week 2