Room With A View
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Room With A View 8cm x 19.5 cm April 27, 2017 |
Exhibition Text:
This art piece has the purpose to illustrate architectural values by demonstrating space and value. Room with a view was a project meant to be placed at Lake Michigan where walls can define the nature of perspective and views determining where you are standing. Richard Serra was my inspiration for this project due to his high quality architecture that is displayed all around the world. His work is curved walls, enormous walls displayed to change your perspective like my piece.
This art piece has the purpose to illustrate architectural values by demonstrating space and value. Room with a view was a project meant to be placed at Lake Michigan where walls can define the nature of perspective and views determining where you are standing. Richard Serra was my inspiration for this project due to his high quality architecture that is displayed all around the world. His work is curved walls, enormous walls displayed to change your perspective like my piece.
Planning
Artistic Inspiration
My artistic inspiration was Richard Serra who is an American sculptor and is known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Richard Serra was involved in the famous Process Art Movement. Serra was one of the few artists who built massive walls of art and other art in cities or within other places and established them as art all around the world. Richard Serra was one of the most influential and inspiring artists of his generation due to his potential in architectural landscapes all around the world through Iceland and New Zealand. His enormous pieces of art are a prime example of a successful, artistic inspiration. Critical Investigation Richard Serra built the Torqued Ellipse IV, The Matter of Time and Intersection II. They were all sculptures made out of steel and were made around the 1990's and were all massive and of very good quality. These three sculptures inspired me to do the few sketches I created on the platform below. I am very intrigued by the curved sculptures Serra makes. It's sensational. |
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MIAD Questions
1) How does your work create a relationship between land and water?
My work creates a relationship between water and land by having a bridge leading to the water from the land. At the end of the bridge there is a space of land where you can look out to the lake and it evokes a feeling than the one you had when you were in the beginning of the bridge in the land.
2) What feelings will people have upon seeing, entering and walking through your structure?
People will have the feeling of gratitude and awe when they see before them the lake Michigan in it's most beautiful form. They will feel loose once they go in the bridge and then they will feel free once they get out of it and are in the platform within the ocean.
3) How does your structure relate to our world physically as well as with our mind?
In a way, my structure describes open minded and closed minded people and how over time they transform into different people, than what they were. The bridge is a bit tight and makes the person feel a bit claustrophobic and then once they feel the platform within the lake, their mind eases and so does their body.
4) How does your structure embrace the lake?
My structure embraces the lake by it having a leading passage to the lakefront and having a small platform to enjoy the view.
5) How does your structure use the fundamental architectural components of:
Path- the structure has walls that lead you, in a path, towards the water
Portal- the structure has two openings/portals, both giving off different emotions
Place- the structure gives you a sense of place by the closed in walls and the direct path you follow.
6) How does your structure embody meaning?
My structure embodies meaning by describing the way people tend to be open and closed minded, and how over time they change.
7) Describe at least three meaningful decisions?
Three meaningful decisions were having the platform or not, the bridge and the beginning of the bridge. I wasn't sure if I should have any of those or to have something different.
My work creates a relationship between water and land by having a bridge leading to the water from the land. At the end of the bridge there is a space of land where you can look out to the lake and it evokes a feeling than the one you had when you were in the beginning of the bridge in the land.
2) What feelings will people have upon seeing, entering and walking through your structure?
People will have the feeling of gratitude and awe when they see before them the lake Michigan in it's most beautiful form. They will feel loose once they go in the bridge and then they will feel free once they get out of it and are in the platform within the ocean.
3) How does your structure relate to our world physically as well as with our mind?
In a way, my structure describes open minded and closed minded people and how over time they transform into different people, than what they were. The bridge is a bit tight and makes the person feel a bit claustrophobic and then once they feel the platform within the lake, their mind eases and so does their body.
4) How does your structure embrace the lake?
My structure embraces the lake by it having a leading passage to the lakefront and having a small platform to enjoy the view.
5) How does your structure use the fundamental architectural components of:
Path- the structure has walls that lead you, in a path, towards the water
Portal- the structure has two openings/portals, both giving off different emotions
Place- the structure gives you a sense of place by the closed in walls and the direct path you follow.
6) How does your structure embody meaning?
My structure embodies meaning by describing the way people tend to be open and closed minded, and how over time they change.
7) Describe at least three meaningful decisions?
Three meaningful decisions were having the platform or not, the bridge and the beginning of the bridge. I wasn't sure if I should have any of those or to have something different.
Sketches
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I was inspired by many of the artworks Richard Serra has created, but what caught my attention the most was the curved sculptures he would build. They are massive and of great quality. Curved sculptures and buildings tend to evoke a feeling to me a lot, so why not do that? I decided to have as many curved sculptures as I can in my sketches. |
Process
First, I got all of my items and saw the sketch I had. I gathered them all up and bought an X-Acto knife to have my work looking precise and clean. I cut the sand out, then the walls and measure everything in place before I glued it onto the board. I used sand paper to clean the edges off everything. I used bristol paper as my curved walls due to the wood not being able to glue and lack of supplies, but that was my fault. I glued them onto the sand, and then placed the straight wall in the middle. When I finished, I placed the bridges (deck) and then did the walls so the people in the bridge won't fall. I placed some trees so it looks pretty and that's about it.
Experimentation
I experimented with wood walls, but that did not work since I tried gluing it with all types of glue and cutting the cardboard and nothing seemed to work. I asked my teacher to get some guidance and he said to get some other bendable, bass wood, but there wasn't any left. Then, he said to use bristol paper instead, so I did that and this project became a lot less harder. I also experimented by putting no trees or putting trees and trees gave it a homey, lovely look to my piece.
Meaning
The meaning of this piece to me, is all about change of perspectives. The whole purpose of my piece is to show the audience that some walls can change the way you feel. If you're in an opened space, you will feel different than when you are in a closed space. Also, where you are standing matters a lot too. I have a a bridge where it separates into two, and in each part you can see the view in a different perspective. This project is all about perspective and how it changes where you are standing and I can kind of compare it to life itself. Life has it's up and downs, and when something happens your perspective just completely changes or wherever you go.
Reflection
This project is probably the most difficult project I have had all year. I have struggled so much and cut my fingers, but it is fine. The curved walls were really hard to glue down. I had to compromise. I tried all glues and nothing worked, so I had to figure something out on how to glue them to the sand and so they can maintain themselves there. Also, the instructor didn't really explain what we can use and can't and what to really use. He gave us direction on a sketch, but just left us there without guidance and that is something I need so maybe I struggled more because of that. Other than that, the project in the end was a success, but very frustrating and difficult.
ACT Responses
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork:
My inspiration, which was Richard Serra as you can see in my artistic inspiration section had a lot of effect in my model due to its meaning and representation. I believe that this piece will have an effect on me and others because it demonstrates the change of perspectives.
What is the overall approach (pov) the author (from research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The authors overall approach regarding the topic of my inspiration is that it covers all the perspectives and views.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
Some generalizations and conclusions I have discovered about this certain topic is that there is a lot architecture that demonstrate this lack of symmetry and change of perspective everywhere I go, I just never noticed it until now that I am doing this project.
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme around my inspirational research was perspective, change, and views.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
I believe that architecture is filled with perspective and is inspirational due to all the patterns they see.
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork:
My inspiration, which was Richard Serra as you can see in my artistic inspiration section had a lot of effect in my model due to its meaning and representation. I believe that this piece will have an effect on me and others because it demonstrates the change of perspectives.
What is the overall approach (pov) the author (from research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The authors overall approach regarding the topic of my inspiration is that it covers all the perspectives and views.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
Some generalizations and conclusions I have discovered about this certain topic is that there is a lot architecture that demonstrate this lack of symmetry and change of perspective everywhere I go, I just never noticed it until now that I am doing this project.
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme around my inspirational research was perspective, change, and views.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
I believe that architecture is filled with perspective and is inspirational due to all the patterns they see.