Gordon Matta Clark

In relation to my thesis concept "IT HAS BEEN THERE"










Day's End 1975


Gordon Matta-Clark’s works include performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works, and “building cuts.” He uses a number of media to document his work, including film, video, and photography. In his signature work, “building cuts,” perceiving the natural light through new openings is sensational, but it would become even more inspiring if we learn, through his works, that some notions in nature or in society are only noticeable by the existence of violence.

When does creation begin and when does it end?
What’s beyond the building surfaces?

Finished building itself does not conclude people’s experiences. His works aim toward completion through removal and destruction. In the process, new openings against old surfaces introduce physical and conceptual complexity to the space. However, he does not define what-to-be-found from the transformation. The process of discovery depends on people. For him understanding of art in a social context is an essentially generous human act, because each positive attempt of individuals varies from one to another, and it discovers the context -where they belong to- in different ways. Interpretation should be personal. What he creates is the opportunity for people to situate themselves within a larger urban context.

(Left) Conical intersect 1975
(Right) Splitting 1974

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Andy Goldsworthy

In relation to my thesis concept "IT HAS BEEN THERE"

Rainbow splashes

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor/ photographer. He creates both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the characters of the environment they are situated. His artworks are site-specific and sensitive to changes in natural material, season, weather, or urban settings. The places that attract him are the places that he feels there is something to be discovered.

True meaning of discovery is not about finding something new, rather noticing things that have been there all the time. Hidden energy is the inspiration for his works.

Each work grows, stays, decays as an integral part of a natural cycle, so the completion of a sculpture is a mere portion of his process. His photographs document how surrounding nature adopt his work over time. Passage of time gives his pieces presence. It is opposite from people and their consciousness which become unable to renew their interest in the processes of life beyond their routine habit. Andy Goldsworthy’s works become the cues for people to refresh their perception toward those forgotten processes within and around natural materials.

Lay down as it started raining or snowing. waited until he ground became wet or covered before getting up.











Dandelion arranged in circle.










Flat topped stones laid in a line to reflect the midday sun.

Quote from his book “A Collaboration with nature”
For me, the experience of looking touching material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.”

Ready for Another Lattice?

また少し前進。

私がrvb使えることを知っている人が何人いるでしょうか？秘密兵器。仕事で役に立てばいいという動機。

Wrote a practical script for another round of mess. I have ridiculous amount of patience when it comes to some crafty works, but I guess if I have to spend three hours doing brainless work anyway (which I don't mind with radio...), I should use the three hours to write a script, then I'll get better. This script lays out polylines flat for print, which is a developed version of orientCurve script I wrote for previous lattice model.

Here is the link to the new script.
Here is the completed model.

Spring

お気に入りのヒールで歩いていたら
体育館の床を蹴りあげたリズムを思い出した。

青空の眩しい昼下がり
干された後に思いっきり飲んだ水を思い出した。

風にさらわれた前髪を追って
弧を描く白球の先にいつもいた彼女のことを思い出しました。


薫風。ロスは春です。曇り空に満開の日本の桜が見たいです。

Something Flowerly

ひたすら勉強中。
クラスなどとらずに自分で学べると自由な感じがしますね。


Here is my recent progress in Rhino Scripting. Finally comfortable with array concept. The script in the picture is a good example of "copy-and-paste" script I would call. Within a huge "For... Next" loop, commands are simply copied and pasted from Rhino Script Samples. My only job is to make sure if Inputs and Outputs are consistent.

At one point, Rotate command required arrAxis as an Input, which is different from "a Line." arrAxis is a "3d Vector," which doesn't have any geometry. "a Line" is a string, or object identifier. I got tricked by it for a while. Can I really get hands on CATIA scripting by graduation doing things like this...?

Here is the link to the script.