Further Development

Below is a form representing Piccinini's Surrogate. I found this a little tricky as originally I was considering the sculpture to be the creature only, as opposed to the creature and the setting it was placed in.

Below is an image with Swallow's A Sad but Very Discreet Recollection of Beloved Things and Beloved Beings. I now realise how huge the space is. I created a table 1 metre in height to give an idea of the size of the studio.


The following are the textures I placed into Sketchup:










The video below shows the creation and use of a musical staircase. I like that the stair case is interactive, and that it has multiple functions.

Stair

Stair 1 - Above ground to ground level. The stair would be made of a transparent material, so that the artist and vistors can see above and below the stair. The word for this picture is 'Staring'.


Stair 2 - Below ground to ground level. The stair would dug out of the earth, with a tread made of metal. The word for this image is 'Sitting'.

W1 IS

Staring, Sitting

W1 HW

The audio file was created on Fruity Loops in (about) 2006. The whole piece consists of approximately 8 different loops with each loop being a max of 2 bars in length. Overall it is very simple, and with layering and looping, a tune was created.

The image above is of Girrawaa Creative Work Centre, Bathurst, NSW. The building was designed by Merrima Design (Principal deisnger: Dillon Kombumerri), the Indigenous Design Unit of the Government Architect's Office, NSW Department of Commerce. The building is located next to Bathurst Correctional Centre, and offers cultural and educational workshops designed specifically for Indigenous inmates, which was part of a recommendation from the Royal Commision into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Inmates had an opportunity to submit a design for the building, and the winning design was of a building in the shape of a goanna, a Wiradjuri animal totem. The Centre has been created to have references to the goanna in several design aspects including the exterior shape, interior design, colour and landscaping. [Image from http://www.govarch.commerce.nsw.gov.au/]

This photo was taken mid-morning, and captures the colour of grass. Colours and textures in nature are beautiful, and I particularly like the colours of the natural environment at dawn, sunrise, sunset and dusk as light from the sun is changing.

Patricia Piccinini: animal, sitting, content
[Image of The Surrogate from http://www.patriciapiccinini.net]



Ricky Swallow: man, staring, silent
[Image of A Sad but Very Discreet Recollection of Beloved Things and Beloved Beings from http://www.rickyswallow.com]

Richard Goodwin: bike, standing, altered
[Image of 3rd-World-Kline 01 from http://www.richard-goodwin.com]