Phoebe Washburn, I like Washburn’s work; by utilising discarded material she’s playing with value and dichotomies, such as her piece Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow, where she looks at organic matter vs industrial tools and human desire to control life. Her pieces are often site based which leaves room for chance, she names this practice spontaneous architecture:
“I just let the structures evolve by repeating the same action again and again. The process has a slightly neurotic element in that it involves adding little behaviour habits. As silly as it sounds, I often feel as if my assistants and I are beavers building a dam. The shapes are less about form than they are about the activity involved in amassing and assembling the forms."
This struck me because the cyclical monotonous nature of repeating an action is something that tied my physical experimentation with automata with my conceptual line of maintenance workers, the ways in which they are timetabled around the workers with more rights, of a higher status, dealing with structural bias against them. The fact that they are forced to come in, sick or not, because they cannot afford not to, forced to repeat often monotonous labour.
Ken Rinaldo’s Autopoiesis, is really cool too. I love the combination of organic and mechanic materials. I love the fluidity of his robots and their interaction with the visitors and each other.
I would very much like to continue creating work that plays with material and movement and the virtual/ earthly divide; grounding reflections in physical experimentation
Theo Jansen’s moving PVC sculptures, walking on the beach while helping preserve the wildlife. is this everything I’d love to be an more?? yes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-NqWDH2qE
Jane Prophet’s (Trans)Plant, looks at plant structures but took it in a slightly different direction to me, using organic motions rather than material. This to me, harks back to my note about Tim Hunkin’s Arcade Machines, in that in order to survive and be in a public realm, robustness is key. But in doing so, removes the delicacy and preciousness that you get with real nature, it goes in with the assumption that people are haphazard, clumsy, do not proceed with care, will break and intend to break at any opportunity given. So don’t give that opportunity. Which is why my piece cannot be interactive with visitors, for it will just be destroyed.
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