Upgrading spatiality from a 2D plain fabric

 

I am always thinking of three dimension or upgrading 2D to 3D spatiality.  This is a natural habit for an architect´s profession and I find it amusing when I pass a plain 2D to 3D thanks to the possibility of shrinking materials, like Aluminum foil, painted canvas, and some fabrics as well.

This is a Japanese scarf that I have found by chance inside a beautiful embroidered purse that I bought at the local swap meet long years ago. 

I don´t wear it since the colors are golden and it looks weird in everyday clothes, but I decided to make some art out of it.

The fabric is splendid, it has those golden tints mixed with blues and reds. It´s hard to manipulate and I used a glass container to keep a shape like the insides of a cave.

I take it as an interesting exercise of shapes, colors and lighting. My pictures were taken today.

I hope they are inspiring for architectural designs....

Wire mesh and colors abstracts

 

Paying attention to details, this standard wire mesh looks very interesting with its shadows against a warning sign. Geometric patterns are mixed together and produce this enhanced view of three dimension. My picture taken on March 2nd 2017 at the local park, in the late afternoon.

Arts and 3D architecture

 

 This is the art of Hwang Seon Tae, it's like an acrylic panel with a dull grey architectural composition. A picture has to be taken in order to see the shadows and the 3D image. I took the picture together with ten more people, and once I was done, I saw a handwritten tiny sign around the stand corner "do not take pictures", which I think was a joke.....From Los Angeles Art Show 2017.

When landscape is incorporated to arts

 

I came across a young artist, Eric, at the local park. He had extended a wrinkled plastic film between two pine trees to paint a blueish graffiti, which he was going to trash later on. I asked permission to take a few pictures and told him that it was very interesting to see the pine trunks and the grass behind. He looked at me in surprise, he was so focused in his art that he didn´t notice the trees were part of it. He thanked me and said he was happy that I had a different point of view.

I suggested him to see what happened around 5PM in the Winter sunset, those trees have very hard beautiful shadows on the grass and the effect would be different.

Arts X 2= the painting plus the photograph with the landscape incorporated to it.

The intriguing poetics of the inside-outside in an open space

 

I've been at the Shipley Nature Center, which has been opened in 1974 with the aim of educating children on how was California (I should say Southern) 100 years ago.

There are several trails, with different objects, including boomerangs and stones that help the teachers to explain history and indigenous life.

Next to one of the trails I've found two wooden tables with objects aligned on it, which I presume are old musical instruments. The shadows were hard and I was delighted to see the game of light and shadow inside the apse surrounded by trees and wilderness.

And I had this feeling of asking myself if I was inside of a special "room" or outside in the open air, it was confusing, specially when I moved around and could capture the darkness while the tables were in full sun.

 

So, after downloading my pictures, I grabbed one of my favorite books, Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space and open it randomly, and found these words that helped me reflect on my experience:

"To benefit by all the lessons of modern psychology and all that has been learned about man's being through psycho-analysis, metaphysics should therefore be resolutely discursive. It should beware of the privileges of evidence that are the property of geometrical intuition. Sight says too many things a one time. Being does not see itself. Perhaps, it listens to itself. It does not stand out, it is not bordered by nothingness: one is never sure of finding it, or of finding it solid, when one approaches a center of being. (.....) Sometimes it is in being outside itself that being tests consistencies. Sometimes too, it is closed in, as it were on the outside. (...)

If we multiplied images, taking them in the domain of lights and sounds, of heat and cold, we should prepare a lower ontology, but doubtless one that is more certain than the ontology that reposes upon geometrical images". 

REF. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space. P. 214-215. USA 1994.

Though taken out of context, I think Bacherlard's words apply to my subject.

Please do not download my pictures without permission.

Artist's architectural 3D models from L.A. Art Show 2017

 

 I love the way these tridrimensional metal models have been done, somehow they look 2D, depending on the point of view, or even 3D renders, but they are mass models attached to one single color panel. This is the work of Kim Byungjoo. Exhibited at Los Angeles Art Show 2017, my pictures taken yesterday.