DSDN 111 project 2 'Fluid Form' summary
For this project I initially looked at the way smoke and air reacted with solid objects – particularly in wind tunnels. I was interested in the way that the air reacted directly to the solid surface it was blowing against while still not touching it, and also the transition from calm to chaotic expressed in laminar and turbulent flow. Thinking about this, I played with different surfaces, textures and densities in my materials – the lighter outer skin with triangles cut into it represents the wind reacting to, but not quite touching, the heavier rhino plastic beneath. The gridlines on the rhino plastic create a different texture revealed beneath the outer skins triangles and the wire, with its two spiral shapes, activates the negative space on the rear side of the form while the base spiral represents a simplified version of the curving form. The overall shape of the piece expresses transition from calm and smooth to chaotic and sharp - the smooth calm forms that smoke blowing over an object takes, while the sharp, thin ends of the shape represent the sharper, more chaotic tail-end of the smoke.
