A discussion of models for an egg shaped structure to be installed in the MK Gallery show along with other ideas for the lounge space including using the windows as natural lightboxes, with projected images or video.
where people can feel the tension between communion and seclusion.
Egg -pod-like things (5’ high structure, upholstered (tufted?) hanging from the ceiling, occupiable)
The sculptural structure will be like a sensory dep. tank
Maybe comforting, maybe weird, but not so much symbolizing a strict dichotomy like the other proposed installation with pillows.
Did you see the pods in the SAM sculpture park?
Ernesto Neto?
Remember, Amy O.’s (yes!) animation in windows in Jamestown?
Look at the Beth Campbell mobiles.
another artist: Sheila from seattle, showed at LC 5-6 years ago, made fabric structures, some made for one some fore two, swaying structures. Pat wrote review.
Robert Irwin video, the beauty of questions. talks about sensory deprivation.
Are you wanting to play with the boundaries of the work, between sculpture and interior design?
It would be cool with animations/projection on the windows inside and out?
Are you thinking about modernist furniture design? Moon chairs?
The egg sculpture will be a very dominant object in the space. I like that.
This construction is more evocative, a less obvious, placeholder in the dichotomy than the pillows.
Think about other tools to create invitational space, things to make a comfortable space.
What are you inviting people in the gallery to do?
Maybe you should make upholstery decisions prior to building.
You can use the fabric to tie the other elements in the room together.
Make the sculpture collapsible.
When someone gets inside will it be sitting room only, one person, two person?
Would there be sound in it?
A cat purr?
Think about the negative space within the structure, this might determine whether people get in or not.
What about the floor? --Check out Ann Hamilton’s Tropos. for a cool floor.
It’s a kissing booth!
Rather than thinking ‘well this could go here or there’ just think about how you want the inner outer dichotomy to work in the space as a whole.
Let the structure create a space within a space itself.
Do you want us to think about decorated space, and space making itself?
You talk about the dichotomy between virtual and physical space but I am not seeing it yet. How will you bring in the aesthetics of virtual space?
Check out: video: How coffins are made. (youtube)
How places are made for people in captivity.
You don’t necessarily have to have a chock full thing, you are talking about overload and deprivation but it doesn’t mean the outside has to be packed.
It seems the video and sound is really important, you need that contrast, but it maybe too predictable?
What if the walls were painted dark, a loss of boundaries, would mean you are enclosed by light and sound.
Keep the window panel up in the air as an option. Maybe you would want the windows blocked or diffused.
This is so much about the ergonomics/aesthetics of a space, you should look at the history of design of public spaces
Check out Tobias ry. (as Erik)
You can kind of reference in-between places of interior design, instead of just inner/outer, or reference a mid. space so that there aren’t pigeonholed areas of thought.
Check out: Moriko Mori
It sounds fun,
What if you could strap into one and roll around.
Do you want the inner space to be luxurious? or Visually different from outside of the structure.
Will the inside be dark? Can you use color psychology?
What about womb imagery?
Patrick’s “Big Hot Love”
The pod structure is interesting in itself but...write, draw, shoot, collage, think about the exterior space just to give yourself more options
Build a small room within the room, a smaller entrance after the entrance. so you are already asking people to engage in that way?
Remember Holly Andres’, false wall and bedroom door. A distinctive and subtle way that told you were not walking into a gallery but into a girl’s bedroom.
How can you take command of the entrance.
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