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These are the final hand castings that were then used with PhotoScan to make the 3d renderings for ScetchUp

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Joaquín Jara ‘Pulse’, August 30, 2013/ End : December 28, 2013

This was a time based and site specific sculpture, it was made on a surge barrier that stops the sea water from surging and flooding the land around it. This work sat in this location for almost 4 months before it was washed away in a storm. 

I like the ephemeral nature of this work and used this influence to make parts of my work ephemeral. 

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Michael Heizer, ‘Double Negative’ 1967-1970

Michael Heizer completely transforms the sites of his land art installations, these aggressive portrayals of human intervention is what has inspired me to create monumental works that change the landscape of Chauvel Place. 

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Final rendition of the installed hand monuments, these hands would be made from the earth dug up from the square area outside Z13 building. This starts to look more like Land Art, the hands would degrade over time and fall back into the pit. The hands on the outside of the pit references the concrete material of this area being sturdy thus being unaffected by the passage of time unlike the other more ephemeral hands made from the earth itself. 

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Scetchup mockup of the monumental hands installed into the space, because the hands have so many polygons due to the photogramatry it is hard to see what is going on but with the help of the photoshop mockups hopefully the idea for the installation can me understood. 

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Started experimenting with making the hands much larger, being over 6 feet tall. With the concrete hands looking like they are crumbling they would be installed on the grass and covered with dirt to mimic the ephemeral and crumbly material that dirt is. The other hands would be installed on the concrete next to grass to signify the rigid and hard nature of that material. 

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Huma Bhabha ‘Untitled’ 2006, Styrofoam, clay, wire, abtilyc paint. 

Huma Bhabha has merged crumbling clay with more sturdy materials. In my chosen site I am responding purely materially with a distinction between crumbling and sturdy materials. 

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Rebecca Warren ‘Teacher (M.B)’ 2003, Reinforced clay, MDF, wheels 

I am interested in how Rebecca Warren uses her materials, she allows the clay to dry out and crumble. She doesn’t then alter the clay to keep it from falling apart making part of her practice serendipitous in nature. 

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One idea was to have a pit outside building Z13 that has multiple hands that are a mixture of crumbling and non crumbling. 

Reflecting on this pit concept I am not satisfied with the outcome, I have more digital experimentation to do using Photoshop and such so hopefully I find something that pleases me through that process. 

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Finished casts of my hands in plaster and concrete. The concrete didn’t set like i would have wanted it to but regardless it has created a significantly decayed or crumbling effect i wanted. With these casts together i can finally experiment with installation using Photoshop and ScetchUp. 

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Crumbling and not crumbling materials

I am thinking of using a similar thing to one of my previous weeks activities. It had 2 different materials that didnt interact (clay and plaster) and forced them to merge in the one sculpture. 

Talking with Sharron he gave me the idea of using salt in concrete and allowing it to disintegrate making the concrete crumble. I could use this method on the hands, having multiple hands that are solid and crumbling on the same concrete pillar. 

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Photoshop experimentation of multiple hands on a concrete block. 

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Experimentation with how to install the hands, I want to have them on or coming out of a concrete pillar that will restrict a specific pathway through my chosen installation spot. 

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First try at making a casting of my hand and arm using Alginate 

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Instead of my original idea of moulding heads and placing them throughout the space I have chosen I will make lifelike casts of arms, legs and hands which are just as if not more recognisable as faces. 

Each piece would incorporate the material of the site, eg, cover it in grass for a grassy installation or made from concrete for a concrete installation. These limbs would look like they are growing out of the spot they are installed in. 

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Antony Gormley makes these full body casts that use a matieral that responds to the side they are installed in. 

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Mark Jenkins makes sculptures that are places randomly throughout a city, these works are babies (not necessarily what i would use) put in dangerous places for babies to be. 

I was thinking of making heads that blended into the environment (trees ect) that would catch the eye of people as they move through the space.