M.G.research and experimentation

Amir H Fallah

2009-05-18T03:18:00.000-07:00

Title: Sheltered
Date: 2007
Info: Fort installed at "Under The Indigo " show at The Third Line gallery in Dubai, UAE. The fort was built onsite with found wood, scrap metal, recycled nails and paint found in the galleries surrounding neighborhood. Dimensions variable.

Amir H Fallah

2009-05-18T03:14:00.000-07:00

Title: Sheltered
Date: 2007
Info: A 2 story fort/terrarium made of 90% recycled materials and including living plants for Rogue Wave 07' at L.A. Louver Gallery in Venice, CA. 2007. Painted camoflauge on the outside and flourescent hunting orange on the inside. Materials: Paint, found wood, plexi, soil, cacti and succulents, ceramic pots, and panties. 240 x96 x 80 inches

Refugee Housing

2009-05-18T03:10:00.000-07:00

Artists: Suzan Wines and Azin Valy

Architects at I-Beam Design constructed a house for refugees made from wooden shipping pallets in a New York warehouse. Palettes are versatile, recyclable, sustainable, and easily assembled. Their transportation cost is negligible because they are used to carry shipments of clothing, food, and medical supplies to disaster areas.

Gateway

2009-05-18T02:48:00.000-07:00

Preliminary documentation of my final show piece. Using pallet wood sourced from building sites and construction yards, i deconstructed them into individual planks to begin building. The connection to their original usage is clearly identifiable without them having to remain in their pallet-shaped forms, this provided a strong enough link to their source without each having to retain their shape.

Christo

2009-04-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

Medieval Tower Wrapped in Plastic by Artist Sculptor Christo

Construction of Degree show Piece

2009-04-28T11:03:00.000-07:00

After measuring the dimensions of the main tower, i laid the planks from the pallets i had collected to visualize the size of the structure. From here i began to build the skeletal frame of the piece. I was forced to construct the installation in segments so the pieces where more manageable and not too heavy for transport. this made my job a lot more work, but these requirements where necessary as i will have to deconstruct the piece for transport when it is exhibited in the london show, and by building it in pieces now it makes it easier to dismantle later.

Review of Kawamata's Reims Plan 4

2009-04-26T04:29:00.000-07:00

The way in which Kawamata illustrates his concept for Reims Plan 4, is similar to the way in which i plan to construct the main tower for my final piece. How will i set out the planks, will they be horizontal or vertical? will they be fixed randomly together or will they be tightly fitted and arranged precisely?
How will i attach each plank, with tacks, nails or screws. will i secure each piece with wood glue to supply the structure with extra support? if so that would effect its ability to be easily deconstructed for transport.
Build the entire structure in pieces to allow for easy deconstruction and reconstruction, this way it makes each piece more manageable, easy to transport and adjust if necessary.
Will it be lighted, and if so how? with its own separate light source? why? what would this add/give to the piece?
Make it a functional, accessible structure that complies to health and safety regulations, allow spectators to enter and interact with the materials as i would have done during its construction.

Tadashi Kawamata

2009-04-26T04:27:00.000-07:00

Title: Reims Plan 4
Artist: Tadashi Kawamata
Date: 2007
Materials: Plywood and balsa
Measurements: h: 50 x w: 60 x d: 30 cm / h: 19.7 x w: 23.6 x d: 11.8 in
Style: Contemporary

Tadashi Kawamata

2009-04-26T04:24:00.000-07:00

Title: Cathedrale de Chaise
Artist: Tadashi Kawamata
Date: 2007
Materials: wood and paint on plywood
Measurements: h: 210 x w: 153 x d: 15 cm / h: 82.7 x w: 60.2 x d: 5.9 in
Style: Contemporary

Tadashi Kawamata

2009-04-26T04:20:00.000-07:00

Title: Tree hut in Basel, Plan 2
Artist: Tadashi Kawamata
Date: 2007
Materials: plywood, balsa and acrylic
Measurements: h: 100 x w: 153 x d: 20 cm / h: 39.4 x w: 60.2 x d: 7.9 in
Style: Contemporary

Tadashi Kawamata

2009-04-26T04:17:00.000-07:00

Title: Tree Hut in Tuileries 2
Artist: Tadashi Kawamata
Date: 2008
Materials: Plywood and balsa
Measurements: h: 150 x w: 100 x d: 100 cm / h: 59.1 x w: 39.4 x d: 39.4 in
Style: Contemporary

Mattias Adolfsson

2009-04-23T08:43:00.000-07:00

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Combining more than one raw material in the same piece, something i don't do in my practice, why?
The reason for me me not incorporating more than one material into the same piece is simple, i react to the materials available to me, and in most cases there has been only one type of resource in place for me to use, or one particular dominant resource. It just so happens that when constructing a non permanent structure, i feel using individual materials rather than a grouping of materials works better both for the piece aesthetically and my current practice.

Crates

2009-04-23T08:11:00.000-07:00

Crate Architecture

2009-04-23T07:44:00.000-07:00

Using large scale crates to construct with, their size and shape resemble bricks and each is designed to interlock with the next, which helps with the stability of the overall structure. Reacting to the found materials and the surrounding space, i decided to build a wall with a narrow passageway leading through to a door on the exterior of a close building. Being of a light-weighted material the crates were easy and fast to work with, however alterations in shape and form are restricted to a minimal, only what the crates allow. With remaining crates i constructed a staircase to test their durability in narrow construction. the time it took to erect was noticeably fast and required minimal labour or constructional expertise, hardly any knowledge of materials was needed to work with this resource.

Secret Book Castle - Maquette

2009-04-23T07:13:00.000-07:00

Andrew Miller

2009-04-15T09:10:00.000-07:00

Artist: Andrew Miller
Title: Morecambe & Wise
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 1992
Materials: wooden table frames
Measurements: height: 178 cm - width: 53 cm - depth: 210 cm
Style Period: contemporary art
Subject: object, table, functionality
Technique: assemblage

Mark Pimlott

2009-04-15T08:55:00.000-07:00

Artist: Mark Pimlott
Title: Vehicle
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 1992
Materials: wood, lacquered wood, plywood, mdf
Measurements: height: 120 cm - width: 120 cm - depth: 45 cm
Style Period: contemporary art
Subject: object, urban
Technique: wooden construction

Sally Mankus

2009-04-08T03:29:00.000-07:00

Title - Tower of Pans
Artist - Sally Mankus
Date of Work - 1996
Materials - Pans, wire, kitchen sounds
Measurements - 81" x 34" in diameter

Matej Kren - Passage

2009-04-08T03:23:00.000-07:00

Title - Passage
Artist - Matej Kren
Date of Work - 2005

Matej Kren - Omphalos

2009-04-08T03:19:00.000-07:00

Title - Omphalos
Artist - Matej Kren
Date of Work - 2004
Dimensions - height 250cm

Matej Kren - Gravity Mixer

2009-04-08T03:14:00.000-07:00

Title - Gravity Mixer
Artist - Matej Kren
Date of Work - 2000
Description - Sculpture installation in the pavilion of Czech republic, Hannover, Germany

Matej Kren - Idiom

2009-04-08T03:12:00.000-07:00

Title - Idiom
Artist - Matej Kren
Date of Work - 1994

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

2009-04-08T02:54:00.000-07:00

Title - Tunnel House
Artists - Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

The layering of wooden slats used in Dan Havel and Dean Ruck's piece is aesthetically something i hope to achieve with my final piece. By layering the recycled planks from the wooden pallets i have collected, either one on top of the other, next to, or overlapping slightly, it will make up the exterior surface of the tower. Connected upon a mixed skeleton of rough construction ply and the reused pallet joints.

Gate Maquette

2009-04-02T08:30:00.000-07:00

Monument Maquette

2009-04-02T08:22:00.000-07:00

I constructed this maquette from lego blocks to familiarize myself with how i imagine the actual piece to look. Obviously it will look entirely different when constructed form former pallet planks, the purpose of the lego structure is just to give my ideas a 3D view.

Chickamauga Monument

2009-03-26T17:13:00.000-07:00

A monument put on the Chickamauga Battlefeild.

Instead of a tower, what about a monument? using the sourced materials i have already located could i construct my own monument, perhaps leaving the inside of the structure raw and unrefined as to show the process of the construction of the piece, leaving the skeleton of the work visible will incorporate an alternative assessment of the piece itself. Would this concept comply with what i hope to present?

Liam McNamara

2009-03-26T09:33:00.000-07:00

Liam McNamara is an artist working with pallets, he constructs his sculptures, usually trees or abstract collections of juxtaposed crates and pallets, both in gallery spaces and urban environments.

Evaluation of Kawamata's practice in comparison to my own

2009-03-26T09:10:00.000-07:00

Kawamata creates projects which border on installation and architecture, his artistic interventions are focused on urban sites. The artist refers to the relationship between the artistic creation /material/ existing space, by composing the work into the existing environment and building a structural connection. Kawamata's works are ingenious simulations of urban situations - roads, bridges, passages, "private" spaces - they are unreal, unrealistic and non-functional objects. The artist relates to the urban chaos of modern cities which is invisible at first glance because it is hidden behind rational, planned structures. Kawamata builds over existing urban objects, facades and interiors with complicated labyrinths of scaffolding, creating a resemblance of architectural "cancer". He defies the rules of logic and symmetry, the laws of architectural rhythm and multi-level hierarchy, questioning the systems of habits linked to utility and aesthetics. His projects provoke associations with the polymorphous and equivocal nature of fractals.

Some of the fundamental themes occurring in Kawamata's practice feature heavily within my own practice. ideas of showing the relationship between individualistic artistic creation/ materials/ and already existing space's, the incorporation of these ideas exist as underlying concepts within my practice. How best can i communicate my ideas, and in what form should these concepts be constructed?

Tadashi Kawamata - Venice Biennal 1982

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Tadashi Kawamata - Toronto 1989

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Tadashi Kawamata - Paris 1997

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Artist's - Brennan Buck (with help from Rob Henderson and students from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna)
Title - Technicolor Bloom

What if i built a tunnel, passing through the gallery space for spectators to interact with by walking through it. The experience would be the journey through the tunnel. How would i (if i did), light it? Would i use the pallets to construct it from?

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

2009-03-26T08:40:00.000-07:00

Artist's - Dan Havel and Dean Ruck
Title - The Tunnel House

Olafur Eliasson

2009-03-26T08:36:00.000-07:00

Artist - Olafur Eliasson
Title - Tokyo Tiles

Around 7,000 platinum-glazed ceramic tiles in a courtyard of a house in Tokyo.

My experience into carpentry

2009-03-16T05:16:00.000-07:00

Each summer i spend working on numerous building sites to raise money for my following year of study, unknowingly the skills i learnt during these times have become dominant in my practice. I feel comfortable working with raw materials and feel the outcomes i produce are increasingly successful. On each new site i spent my time laboring and learning from tradesman across the spectrum of contemporary skills used within construction, from these life experiences i have gained an invaluable knowledge which has both broadened my concepts with how my current practice is developing, and on what i am now able to achieve with my newly gained industrial understanding.

Knock Down Fittings

2009-03-16T05:14:00.002-07:00

Knock Down Fittings
There are many different types of knock down fittings. They are usually fixed with screws to the two pieces being joined and are pulled tightly together by a locking screw.
Most knockdown fittings are used for temporary joints which hold pieces together without the use of glue. They are usually used with self assembly furniture.

Cross Halving Joint

2009-03-16T05:14:00.001-07:00

Cross Halving Joint
This type of wood joint is used where two pieces of a framework cross. It is similar to the corner and tee halving joints, and can also be strengthened with dowels or screws if necessary.

Dovetail Halving Joint

2009-03-16T05:13:00.001-07:00

Dovetail Halving Joint
This joint is much stronger than the Tee Halving as it can withstand pulling of the cross member. It is a difficult joint to cut accurately.

Tee-Halving Joint

2009-03-16T05:12:00.001-07:00

Tee-Halving Joint
This is similar to the cross halving joint, but this joint is used to make Tee's or separators in frameworks. It is quite strong but the tee can slide apart if pulled.

Corner Bridle Joint

2009-03-16T05:11:00.000-07:00

Corner Bridle Joint
This is a strong joint. It is sometimes called a corner mortice and tenon. The mortice is often cut 'blind' and it is then known as a stopped mortice and tenon.

Corner Halving Joint

2009-03-16T05:09:00.000-07:00

Corner Halving Joint
This is a simple corner frame joint that can be made with just four saw cuts. End grain shows on both sides of the joint and although quite strong it is often dowelled or screwed.

Corner Mitre

2009-03-16T05:03:00.000-07:00

Corner Mitre
As with the box mitre joint this really needs pinning for strength. The end grain is hidden.
This type of joint is often used on picture frames

Stopped Housing

2009-03-16T05:02:00.001-07:00

Stopped Housing
Is more difficult to cut but gives a neater finish. It is normally just glued into place.

Housing joint

2009-03-16T05:01:00.001-07:00

Housing joint
Is stronger than as simple butt joint. It is usually used for shelves or partitions but it is difficult to cut accurately. It is usually glued but can also be nailed.

Dovetail Joint

2009-03-16T05:00:00.001-07:00

Dovetail Joint
This is a very strong joint but is also a very difficult joint to cut. It has very good mechanical strength which is increased if it is glued.

Comb Joint

2009-03-16T04:59:00.000-07:00

Comb Joint
This is an interlocking corner joint. It must be made accurately or the strength and appearance of the joint will be severely limited.

Dowel Joint

2009-03-16T04:57:00.000-07:00

Dowel Joint
This corner joint is essentially a butt joint which is strengthened by wooden pegs called dowels which are pushed into both pieces of wood as they are glued. Dowel joints can also be used to make partitions. If the dowel holes are 'blind' (they do not go all the way through) the dowels are completely hidden

Mitre Joint

2009-03-16T04:50:00.000-07:00

Mitre Joint
This joint is used on corners. It is useful because it hides the end grain and also provides a larger gluing area. Like the butt joint it is weak unless the joint is strengthened. This is often done by cutting slots and gluing veneers in between. Mitres must be cut at 45O we use a mitre box for this purpose.

Rebate Joint

2009-03-16T04:49:00.001-07:00

Rebate Joint
This corner joint is stronger and more rigid than a butt joint, but some end grain shows. You will need a saw, chisel and mallet to cut this joint by hand

Butt Joint

2009-03-16T04:44:00.000-07:00

Butt Joint
The butt joint is the simplest of all joints. It is rather weak unless strengthened by using glue, nails or corner blocks. Butt joints can be used on corners or as partitions.

Overview of the Babylon Exhibition

2009-03-13T14:28:00.000-07:00

I discovered this exhibition online and decided to visit as it strongly supports my practice. The story of the mythological tower is something i read about as a child, myths and fables have always interested me and were always a dominating theme within my childhood, so i am not surprised that my practice has (perhaps subconsciously) turned down this route. Personally i find historical architecture interesting to learn about, and find it visually stimulating. The thought of these amazing structures once having existed, having been built purely by hard labour under immense visionary skills, is something i enjoy researching and am sure will benefit my concepts positively.

The Story has reached us most widely through the Bible, the most extensively read book in the world. This is what gives the Babylon fantasy its remarkable reach. From the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians; the taking into captivity of the Jews; the psalmist laments about sitting by the rivers of Babylon, the Tigris and the Euphrates, and remembering Zion, have all entered our consciousness on a primary level through the education of the Bible. When stalking the halls of the British Museum i find myself engrossed in all and everything it has to offer.
The show consists of a thoroughly absorbing display of relaxed revisionism that sets out to tackle the myths about Babylon. Its not filled with ancient treasures, and marvelous wonders from the old world. Instead, an interesting array of maps, models, texts and photos, accompanied by a precious selection of battered artifacts make up the source of the exhibition, in a comprehensive telling of Babylon’s fantastical story. An exciting display of hopeless western pictures, desperately trying to visualize the distant Metropolis present some of the exhibitions most interesting work.

The most exciting artworks on display are western pictures trying hopelessly to visualise distant Babylon.

Babylon Myth and Reality - Installation View of One Room

2009-03-13T14:25:00.000-07:00

Babylon
Myth and Reality
British Museum, London
WC1

View of the British Museum's exhibition showing glazed brick reliefs of lions and a model of ancient Babylon. For 2,000 years the myth of Babylon has haunted the European imagination and inspired artists, writers and philosophers. The exhibition at the British Museum in London explores the Babylon of our imaginations alongside artefacts from ancient Mesopotamia to build up a picture of one of the greatest cities of antiquity.

Babylon Myth and Reality - Ziggurat Etemenanki

2009-03-13T14:23:00.000-07:00

Scale model of the ziggurat Etemenanki. Ziggurats were built as stairways to heaven.

Babylon Myth and Reality - Installation View of Three Paintings

2009-03-13T14:20:00.000-07:00

A view of various paintings of the Tower of Babel. The Biblical story has inspired artists from Brueghel to Rembrandt and continues to be a source of great debate amongst Historians

Babylon Myth and Reality - Lucas van Valckenborch

2009-03-13T14:18:00.000-07:00

Title - The Tower of Babel
Artist - Lucas van Valckenborch
Date - 1595
Medium - Oil on panel

Babylon Myth and Reality - Cornelis Anthonisz

2009-03-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

Title - Fall of the Tower of Babel
Artist - Cornelis Anthonisz
Date - 1547
Medium - Etching

Babylon Myth and Reality - Michael Lassel

2009-03-13T13:55:00.000-07:00

Title - Tower of Babel/Der Turm Babel
Artist - Michael Lassel
Date - 2001
Medium - Oil on canvas

A modern interpretation of the tower by artist Michael Lassel

Babylon Myth and Reality

2009-03-13T13:52:00.000-07:00

Barbed wire surrounding the archaeological site of Babylon, about 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. The British Museum protested at the use of the site as a military base
Photograph: Karim Kadim

Babylon Myth and Reality - Julee Holcombe

2009-03-13T13:47:00.000-07:00

Title - Babel Revisited
Artist - Julee Holcombe
Date - 2004 Julee Holcombe

Tree-House Studio

2009-03-10T14:33:00.000-07:00

DAWN DEDEAUX
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Dawn DeDeaux has been wind tossed by Hurricane Katrina to a Tree House on the Fish River a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico in coastal Alabama. American Artist Dawn Dedeaux relocated her studio after her original space was destroyed by a hurricane, making her new live and work in studio a piece of work itself.

Worlds Largest Tree-House

2009-03-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

Built for Lord Northumberland. Located on the grounds of Alnwick Gardens just 95 miles south of Edinburgh. The 6,000-square-foot tree house soars 56 feet above the ground and is connected with 4,000-square-feet of suspended walkways.

Anne-Marie Watkins

2009-03-08T11:47:00.001-07:00

Artist - Anne-Marie Watkins
Title: Monument
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 1988
Materials: mdf, sensosan reflect
Measurements: height: 4.8 ft - width: 5.6 ft - depth: 2.6 ft
Style Period: contemporary art
Subject: object

Description: Metallic mirrored square arch and lintel, standing on a mirrored base.

An alternate means to forcing the spectators to interact with the piece, whoever looks upon any surface of Anne-Marie Watkins's 'Monument', sees his or her own reflection, immediately making them apart of the work.

Laura Morrison

2009-03-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

Artist - Laura Morrison
Title: Mini Monolith
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 2005
Materials: paint, canvas, non firing clay
Measurements: height: 15 cm -width: 13 cm -depth: 9 cm
Style Period: contemporary art
Subject: object, architecture, recurring motif
Technique: sculpture, painting

Description: A series of objects and paintings. Selectors’ comments: ‘Great interplay of objects and paintings. Which is the detail? Where is it going? Very obsessive and rewarding. Inside the sliced mini mountain is a wall, a hole-less cave. The troglodyte forgot to make a door and was worshipped as an Aztec jumping has been. The feeble blue castle turret did offer scant protection to King Gerry the Gerbil for republican rats.’

Geraldine Marks

2009-03-08T11:30:00.000-07:00

Artist - Geraldine Marks
Title: Crazy About You
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 1993
Materials: miniature mountain on table: table, plaster, irridescent paper, perspex, acrylic paint, glitter
extent: photograph
Measurements: height: 105 cm
extent: table installation
width: 52 cm
extent: table installation
depth: 52 cm
extent: table installation
height: 75 cm
extent: photograph
width: 50 cm
extent: photograph
Style Period: contemporary art
Subject: landscape, mountain, miniaturism

Jenny Dunseath

2009-03-08T11:21:00.000-07:00

Artist - Jenny Dunseath
Title: Tunnel
Work Type: sculpture
Date of work: 2004
Materials: paper, gum strip
Measurements: height: 60 cm - width: 100 cm - depth: 160 cm
Style Period: contemporary art
Subject: architectural object, tunnel
Technique: paper construction

Description: Series of sculptural constructions made from simple materials.

Donald Rodney

2009-03-07T16:26:00.000-08:00

Artist - Donald Rodney
Title - In the House of My Father
Date - 1996-7
In the artist's open hand is a sculpture made from sections of his own skin. These were removed when he was having treatment for sickle cell anaemia.

Paint and Stairs

2009-02-25T10:40:00.000-08:00

Tunnel Vision

2009-02-25T10:21:00.000-08:00

Ishihara 5 - Tunnel Vision

2009-02-19T07:54:00.000-08:00

House of Trash - The Forgotten Kingdom

2009-02-19T07:44:00.000-08:00

House of Trash - Pin Castle

2009-02-19T07:39:00.000-08:00

Documentation of pin castle

2009-02-19T07:37:00.000-08:00

Castle on table

2009-02-18T11:29:00.000-08:00

Castle and Hand

2009-02-18T11:28:00.000-08:00

Castle amongst Studio Activity

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Castle on Polystyrene Cliff

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Castle by Main Entrance

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Castle on Automatic Door

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Castle on Plant Pot

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Castle by Theft Detectors

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Castle on Staircase

2009-02-18T11:09:00.000-08:00

Castle on Drawn Castles

2009-02-18T11:01:00.000-08:00

Snow Guard

2009-02-18T10:45:00.000-08:00

Here the snow has grown from itself, crafting a snow turret to monitor its defenses from unwanted threats to its demise. oblivious of its ultimate fortune, the turret stands hard-edged and humble in the presence of its creator

The Ruination of Castle over Time

2009-02-18T10:36:00.000-08:00

On going back to revisit a piece of work i created and left to stand the endure the trials of time in its erected location, these are my findings. the once proud and strong form of the castle has now begun on a course to a slow dereliction. effected by the unruly weather and other forces out of my control, the structure has begun to collapse and ruin, leaving the remnants of a once full standing construction.

is it important that my work is about construction, or could it be about the issues of deconstruction. i am interested in both.

Midnight Tower

2009-02-18T10:22:00.000-08:00

This is a piece i built on a construction site found in winton on Alma road. Once again my guerilla mind set of creating work urged me to locate an alternate site to work in. Whilst searching i came across this freshly placed site, its materials all unpackaged waiting to be used. The dominant resource present were piles of both dense-form concrete blocks and standard breeze blocks. Setting myself the task of constructing a tower to rise above the surrounding wall, both making it visible to spectators on the pedestrians side of the wall, and introducing a dominant structure within the building site, i set out a floor plan with breeze blocks to visualize my ideas and experiment with measurements. After selecting the appropriate size and specific siting of the piece, i removed the light-weight breeze blocks and began construction with the heavier concrete blocks. Working without rest, only to conceal myself from the passing patrolmen of the site, which luckily for me only passed every twenty minuets exactly, so there movements were easily tracked. Fortunately they passed my mid constructed piece multiple times without suspecting anything amiss. After around three hours of fast construction and scheduled concealment times, the tower was complete. I quickly documented the piece and left the building site unnoticed, the tower remaining a monument for the builders the following day to ponder over. I plan to possibly construct another sculpture in this location as the amount of available materials applicable to my practice was abundant on this site.

Chili Moon Town

2009-02-09T14:22:00.000-08:00

Title - Chili Moon Town
Artist's - Anna Galtarossa and Daniel Gonzalez
Location - Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
Date - April 2007
Materials - 10-ton steel structure, printed and decorated vinyl, 90 plastic barrels.
Size - approximately 26 x 26 ft base - 29 ft height

Chili Moon Town is a utopian floating city of dreams that knows no boundaries. It is born as a free city without frontiers. It doesn’t make its inhabitants migrate but it migrates itself. It is a metropolis with futuristic hand made skyscrapers. Chili Moon Town Tour is an archetype of the fable without a moral, like a child’s tree house: a magical hideout for private experiences.

My work doesn't have to be a castle to display fantastical concepts. experiment with other den-like structures?

Panel Bridge

2009-02-03T02:48:00.000-08:00

During the exploration of this particular building i located this room, large and broad with two stages at opposite ends, possibly a dinning, or entertainment area in its former use, now littered with piles of dust, ceiling plaster, broken ornaments, general industrial waste, used mattresses and sheets. on contemplating what to construct in this area which i found interesting, i concluded to discover a solution to connect the two stages continuously. firstly i cleared the space, then i transported a relevant quantity of fiberglass panels i had discovered a few rooms previous into place at one end of the room, before proceeding to construct what became 'Panel Bridge'.

Beam Tower

2009-02-03T02:38:00.000-08:00

As in some cases, when i enter a premises, the initial concern is to search the immediate environment checking it is clear for me to begin construction, and secondly to search and locate relevant materials. sometimes i will find a location completely barren and clear of any required resources, in these circumstances i will use anything available to create some experimental architecture. as was the case with this specific installation.

Crisp Packet Castle

2009-02-02T03:20:00.001-08:00

A sketch made on photoshop for 'The House of Trash' exhibition.

Houses of Parliament - Berlin/Germany

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Tadashi Kawamata - Cathedrale de Chaises

2009-01-28T04:43:00.000-08:00

Artist - Tadashi Kawamata
Title - Cathedrale de Chaises
Date - 2007

Details - Approximately 1200 chairs. installation view

Political Minimal - Berlin

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Polish Poster Shop

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Berlin Architecture

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