#recursive structures

[bru-wandw]

Recursive Structure - ltd. edition artists book

The imagery from the recursive structures acted as an abstract yet instructional aspect to an artists book, which included the structural elements. alongside this when registering the 2 colours for printing the reverse page i found it created a print within its own right.

a limited number of the print and artists book are available here

[bru-wandw]

Test Installation with the recursive structure, the wall and floor work mocked out in paper, acts as an instructional figure to the sculpture.

Suggests the idea of recording the movements within and the relationship of the structure to the space.

Consider the idea of plotting. Each structural element colour-coded and corners numbered, plotting the balanced structure in its various positions.

[bru-wandw]

'Recursive Structure' 2013

in scaling up the structures and working with them in the same vein as the smaller ones, creating free standing balanced structures i wanted to experiment with how this would work as a performative piece. No longer in the hand but on a much larger scale the structures became unruly and attempting to manipulate and work with them became something of a comical act.

Working through this gave me the chance to see how a performative aspect could be brought to the structures, interesting in themselves that alone did not suggest this sense of movement and interaction and how to frame the performances. the straight on shot lent a formal quality that echoed 'typical' performance art. but at the same time i was attempting to poke fun at it, the black uniform of performance becomes a clown suit. Also this framing reminded me of Buster keaton, laurel and hardy and early slapstick films, in which camera movement and editing were minimal instead each scene being one single take as an establishing shot.