Opus Post 9: [Re]actions

Rotation- 

The way people move through the renaissance and Baroque cathedrals was like a rotation in the ways the statues and reliefs illustrate chronological stories of the bible encouraging  church goers to rotate around the space. 

Movement- 

For my final MDF "3rd Skin" the slats of MDF are layered and positioned in a random manner to relate to the bark I was inspired by. The bark itself implies movement in that it seemes to be made of plate clusteres of bark. The way each cluster plate layers on to the next makes me think of techtonic plates merging together creating  mountains and cliffs. The cantilevering nature of my final model is used to relate to this idea of cluster plates merging to create overhangs within the clustered whole of the bark.

Reflection-

In engaging light for our projects I wanted for my layered slats to reflect shadows on to each other as well as the floor. In the above pictures this can be seen as light passes through the negative spaces of the slats. The way light passes through minimal spaces can be related to gothic cathedrals in that large (small in comparison to the interior) stain glass windows illuminate focal points of the interior such as the kineto.

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Illumination-

During our critique on monday we placed our projects up against the walls with direct light. The direct light seemed to be amplified to a much greater degree when it passed through the spaces of our projects. I can see how a totally different mood can come over a room when something is placed with lighting to manipulate shadows.