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The Artists

Ricky Swallow - iMan Ricky Swallow’s iMan is most likely constructed out of two different coloured plastic components for the white and the coloured parts . Judging by his other work I would image that a skull was carved from wood and then cast as a mould which was then used to create the different coloured iterations of the plastic iMan skulls. I believe that this work is an obvious commentary on the influence of computers on modern thinking. The word that I used to describe this was work, and the one that ultimately influenced to design of the studio space, was ‘transparent’. I use this work to describe not only the quality of the material, but also transparency of thought and transparency of meaning or the artwork.

Sidney Nolan- Central Australia
Sidney Nolan’s ‘Central Australia’ is an oil painting with predominantly red and yellow colours. Typical of Nolan’s work, it deals heavily with the theme of the Australian outback, but this particular example is far more pictorially literal than many of his other works. The words I used to describe this work were heart, dehydrate and desolate, and I think that I have used influence from each of these words in the above ground studio design.

Ricky Swallow - iMan

I tried making a box and rendering the image of 'iMan' on the side of it, but it looked really bad. So instead I scale modelled some skulls and textured them to be iMen. I assume they are to place in the studio to give an idea of how the artists work interacts with the space, so it will work pretty much the same way.

YouTube - Inspiration

I have been meaning to post this link since we had the lecture on 'The Stair' and I saw this preview for 'Horton Hears a Who'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tGRmmhxj0



Its only about the first 30seconds that I am talking about, but to conceptualize a stair that is so abstract is pretty cool. Unfortunately we live in a world with laws of physics that don't allow the kind of things that come into Dr Seuss' head, but the freedom of creativity in the world of Dr Seuss is truely inspireing.



I have also been meaning to post some other images, so I might as well do it now. I mentioned before that M.C.Escher had some influence on my other creative work, so I thought I'd post some of his conceptualisations of stairs.





Here are some links to animations of Escher's stairs on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raBC8Vs_f6M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yrg5oeiXKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jRmo7iM5vk&NR=1