DAISY AMES

i am spending my saturday night casting a mold of my model in rockite…

note: if you inhale it, then it can harden in your lungs… same goes for the eyeballs… wearing a mask and goggles is a quick way to establish your classiness while mixing and pouring… 

Last week we had to build 1/2” scale models of an interior “room” (dare I call it such a conventional thing!) in our studio design proposal - a contemporary art museum on a pier. These were light study models showing how daylight entered the space, reflected off of walls, penetrated through the space and/or dissipated from above. We calculated the angles of reflection and the type of reflections based off of the color and surface material. We provided photographs of the daylighting effects during winter and summer solstice, and the spring/fall equinox. These images were achieved by using a cut-out “nomen” triangle on sun dial of 40 degrees positioned on the model itself.

Studio critic, Joel Sanders made an interesting point that none of the models that he was seeing re-defined contemporary art or made a statement about an artist’s curatorial motives. While we all focused on the prompt of the assignment, Joel was passionate about depicting a space that could house a variety of media. He was annoyed that the students chose Lichtenstein’s and random yarn as examples of contemporary art -things he’s already seen. He proceeded to say that artists today fight being defined by one medium, and that they are constantly mixing media either in one piece of work, or they already have a body of work that reaches across a range of media. He concluded that our spaces should reflect this shift - to make spaces that are not harmonious, but eclectic, like that of the new artist. He said these spaces should challenge the conventional way of viewing different mediums ie. video art does not always have to be in a black box, or sculpture does not have to be in an atrium… and, perhaps make a new space for some sort of medium that we aren’t even aware of yet. Oh la la.