Monday 17 July 2023

stuffallpiledupbutfordifferentreasons

Working on a new approach to creating 3D prints. Looking at the structural opportunities available when exploring fill without creating surfaces. I was struck by the intriguing imagery created when working with the software that you use to create the structures, ready to be printed. I use a combination of SketchUp, 3D printer and PrusaSlicer, this is then worked on in Photoshop. Using PrusaSlicer, as an image generator rather than just the software to make 3D prints. The images created explore the liminal space of the 3D experience – the image, the object, and the image of the object. It’s both there and not there. An afternoon of breathing in – 3 shows in London full of stuff all piled up but for different reasons – Keifer at White cube – piles of so much stuff piled very high and culled from a gigantic archive seemingly without much editing, Ibon Aranberri at Raven Row – piles of stuff, carefully organised after being shown in a different configuration elsewhere. RESOLVE Collective at the Curve Barbican – piles of stuff, piled up after the artist’s felt disparaged by the systems the work sat within. 3 piles of stuff all piled up but for different reasons.  Onto screens - Master gardener – theatrical slightly all-over the place. Beau is afraid – a terrifying insight into a terrified mind. Was about to give up on Barry around the beginning of season 2 when the blood and brutality was getting all too much but so glad to of worked through that as season 4 was gloriously excellent – the tonal shift from dark humour to almost cartoon was genius and the culmination in episode 8 was so clever, the writing had me unsure of everything as the story spun off into several realities, often at once.