Looking at kaleidoscope effects - the way they change a view.

I would like to use this in someway, just need to figure out how.

Removed beads from end of kaleidoscope and held it over camera lens-

took some shots of studio.

Pleased with results and links in with my theme of altering perspective by looking through something.

Some artists using 'kaleidoscope' effects.




Martina Hola
Kaleidoscope
Sculpture made of wood, metal and paper.

Beautiful, intricate and delicate




Richard Orchardson
Kaleidoscope

44 triangular panels of aluminium suspended in atrium of Worcester Library
Can be viewed from all three floors of building.
Stunning piece allowing glimpses of form and light that change as viewer moves through the building.

Following a sugesstion, I used made up boxes instead - (flat packed postal boxes that I made up, cut

out the centre - front and back - and painted white).

 

I then filled these with various items - either lined with different surfaces or placed items inside to provoke a different visual response as the box was viewed through.

 

 

 

The uniformality and replication of the boxes ensured that the main focus was on the box's contents, in an attempt to alter the thought process when viewing through the box to the space beyond.

 

Song lyrics - how certain lyrics can cause us to feel a certain emotion. They mean different things to different people.

Mobile phone text messaging - are personal but something we all do and recognise. Can be meant one way but read and understood a completely different way. 

Some artists Sarah suggested I should look at in relation to my work

Cristina Iglesias

Architectural intervention - she creates zones of experiences.

"I am interested in making pieces that are sensitive to the space they occupy, working with it to create meaning"

Even though this pavilion is suspended so that it floats above the floor - it still has the effect of altering the sense of space within- enclosure. The construction allows the viewer to see out through the 'walls' giving another perspective of the space around the installation.

Very intricate,delicate design but still very effectively forms a distinct space within a space - altering the feel of the space.

Donald Judd



Very simple geometric shapes that occupy a relatively small space and yet really transform the understanding of that space.



Series of blocks really focus's attention on to an otherwise blank wall. The replication of the form results in a neat and ordered piece that is easy to view and relate to.

Sol Lewitt




Just the bare minimum of line necessary to form the cube - our brains fill in the missing pieces - crisp, uncluttered and changes the perceived space within.

Maud Cotter



A mix of sculpture and architecture.  For this installation Cotter asked visitors to the exhibition to bring along used and everyday items and place them into the sculpture, allowing their interaction to change the piece on a personal level and overall.
Occupying a space, creating a space and altering the space.


 


 

placing items in different cubes to change perspective as you look through.

 

 

 

Glazed ceramic pieces

ceramics experiments

Spent the morning looking at using clay- ceramics workshop.

began with a view finder on a picture - mark making with various instruments - bamboo dipping pen, standard dipping pen, brush - to represent part of the picture.

When happy with design - experimented with representing the design on the clay, making marks, manipulating - getting a feel for the material.

Very nice to work with, relaxing and satisfying - definitely needs more investigation.


Some ceramicist I have been looking at:



Aimee Fisher -

Beautiful curve and flow, intriguing to look at - as though it just came to rest in that position.





Alan Foxley

Great mix of textures - like stone age mark making - naive and simple but very effective and eyecatching.


  
Shaun Hall

Gorgeous lustre and shimmer -  appears very tactile, can just imagine the sense of touch. Amazing mix of tones and colours - interesting glaze effects.




Ken Eastman -

Beautiful piece - intriguing form, gentle curves - wave like, enhanced by the soft, natural, nautical colouring.  Impression of diving into a wave - rush of colour.

Richard Long
Winter Circle 1984 - Cornish slate
Private Sales at Christie's
Used to spend many happy summers in Cornwall surrounded by
this gorgeous slate - beautiful multi layers and jewel like chinks through it.

Dan Flavin - untitled (to Ellen aware, my surprise) 1975
pink, blue and green fluorescent light square across a corner.

Just the use of coloured strip lights to completely alter the space - different perspective, another dimension and changing the whole sense and feel of that space.


 
Gerhard Richter

 Abstraktes Bild 1997

Great sense of movement - shadowy glimpses, like looking through a condensation covered train window.

Continuing with clothes pegs - introducing other
materials.  Making cube forms with card and pegs,
one suspended above the other.
Possibly series of these in rows - some face on, some
side on, some just cube framework allowing
different views through the cubes.
Incorporate different surfaces inside the cubes-
maps, foil, photos, old wallpaper etc to alter
perspective of view through.

 


View through one cube - framing the view, giving a different sense.

Showing cube lined with different materials-
one lined with pieces of a map, one with foil, to alter
framework of the view through and give a different
sense to that view.

colours

Putting sheets of tissue paper in front of a light to create different colour effects to photos.

Some experiments with different materials - and what they seem to lend themselves to -

 Clothes pegs - taken to pieces and glued one on top of the other - gives an interesting fan effect

Baking beans - these beans are ceramic and have a natural, almost stone like appearance -I marked out swirls and circles with them.  I think they would look good sited in a structural form in the natural environment.

Continuing the clothes peg theme -

Looking a pegs - different ways to assemble them and disassemble them and their component parts - simple construction but quiet interesting design. The metal spring is wonderful engineering and pleasing to look at, quite keen to use in some way.

Experimenting with 3d  -
hot glue gun on to plastic laminating pouch - unfortunately, glue came out in different thicknesses, so I'm reluctant to peel the resulting swirls off the plastic sheet in case they fall apart.  Probably improve with practice.
Enjoyable to do - interesting result.

Artstraws - weaving, very effective result and satisfying to do - will definitely explore this method further and bear it in mind for the project.



This is the winner of a competition for ideas to re-imagine the disused Mail Rail tunnel under London’s Oxford Street. The winner was international designers Fletcher Priest. The proposal is to transforms the underground rail system into a mushroom garden, dimly illuminated by a series of oculi that filters in light through street-level glass-fibre sculptures.

Very mystical, other-wordly looking with the lighting accentuating small snippets of detail. Makes a feature of nature reclaiming abandoned sites.


 










 Geatano Pesce Italian architect and designer has created  a series of six 'waterscape tables' inspired by aerial views of bodies of water.

Celebrating the beauty of water and ranging from oceans to puddles - each table is unique in its shape, colour and surface.  They feature removable details of landscape such a cliffs, piers or trees - all in proportion to the aerial view.

Striking and unusual - like having the calming effect of water without the trickling sound.