#positivefragments

[markonius3]

Positive Fragments: Final

10 seconds of 10 hours of Rain

7'x5'

tv, steal, found objects, plaster, vegetation, YouTube video (10 hours of Rain)

A reflection of society's relationship with nature. Tv is showing a video of rain in a forest. Plaster hands mounted on a barricade hold a small plant surrounded by vines and below a rotted out tree root and wooden containers with broken pieces of the plaster hands inside. The audio of the sound of rain plays through speakers.

[markonius3]

Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II #3 and Intent

Verner Panton designed the S Chair in 1956 which became the Panton Chair manufactured by Vitra. It was the first plastic stackable chair designed for serial production sold by Herman Miller Furniture Company. The originals were made with polyurethane structural foam, but I have a fake set made of fiber glass painted in white polyurethane. Plastic was considered high tech at the time, but I have them on a Saltillo Mexican tile which makes for a hard contrast. Making clay impression of the mid-century modern design of the Panton Chair laying on a low-tech clay tile floor reflects the evolution of societal use of materials and its humble beginnings.  

[markonius3]

Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II #2

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Negative Fragments: Clay Impressions II #1

[markonius3]

Cast of arms with a tv siting on elbow joints holding a plant in front of the tv blocking the screen while playing video of sun and rain mounted on wall or free standing.

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Cast a tree branch holding a tv mounted on the wall or possibly free standing. Tv could be streaming footage of a forest fire.

[markonius3]

Positive Fragments Preparation 1

Cast of an arm that appears to be installing a tv on a wall. The arm is holding object useless for tv installation like a spoon or chancleta (flip-flop) as if it were a tool like a drill or level.

[kserpa23]

Beyond Rails

Wooden toy train tracks, plaster, steel wire

60” x 48” x 3”

Beyond Rails is an artwork concerning the idea of childhood imagination. Physically the child can only really play with the wooden train tracks in front of them, but with their imagination that small hill could be an entire mountain. The casted plaster rails depict that imagined terrain as they’re not completely connected or usable. The piece is minimal in construction which works to focus on the difference between the traditional track with the small hill and the distorted plaster track that is only held together by thin steel wire. I originally wanted the imagined track to be much larger with it reaching all the way to the ceiling and back down in an arch. Complications led to that not being able to be done so while I’m somewhat happy with the result of the work, I definitely think it could have been a lot better.