Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Monday, April 14, 2008

Exp2: The Clients

Jane Goodall

"Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved."1

Florence Nightingale

“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”2

Stephen Hawking

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. "3

About.com: Women's History, "Jane Goodall Quotes," About.com, http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/jane_goodall.htm.
Think Exist.com: Finding quotations was never this easy!, "Florence Nightingale Quotes," Thinkexist.com, http://thinkexist.com/quotation/were_there_none_who_were_discontented_with_what/338113.html.
Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos (Great Britain: Vintage, 2007), 106.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Final 2 Images - Flowing and Contrast

Flowing

Contrast

Piccinini's materials - Protein Lattice

As Piccinini's work produced the best collective adjectives I used her work for my above and below ground spaces. It is possible for one to argue that her artwork the Protein Lattice is not about materials she has used but rather the lack of materials in the painting. The image of the lady holding the rat is contrasted against the black background - the complete 'void' of materials. The rat may have been made out of plaster or perhaps clay, and the lady is simply an image. The lack of materials in the image gave me freedom to use a wide variety in my own SketchUp design yet still carries elements of the artwork. The most obvious is the colours used in the below ground space. The central orb is blond (for the lady's hair) and the balls of the spikes are skin tone to suit the colour of the lady's skin and the colour of the rat. It can be said that the choice of artist and artwork have given me great freedom in my design while maintaining adherence to the design brief.