Jordana Gurney
I began by noting down the connections between the interior surface and the relationship between the internal/external threshold and passage. From this I created 10 conceptual sketches that I thought could relate to the connections I had discovered. Conceptual sketches 1-3Top: Sketch 1 - level changeMiddle: Sketch 2 - Built around each otherBottom: Sketch 3... Continue Reading →
After creating a series of surfaces in week 5 I started to look at how I could apply to them to site. I knew from early on that I wanted to create an installation in the space and an exercise we did in week 4 - models based off our artist models work- had given... Continue Reading →
Exercise 1 - ObservationFor our first exercise we were to chose a surface close by to us (in the home) and to observe it for 10-15 minutes. Whilst observing we were to note the qualities of the surface such as materiality, lighting, feel, temperature, patterning and atmospheric qualities. I decided to take a photo of... Continue Reading →
Annotation One: How to Encounter a Puddle – Anny Li Li, A. (2018) How to Encounter a Puddle. Retrieved from: https://volume-1.org/Triple-Canopy-How-to-Encounter-a-Puddle Keywords: Documentation, evidence, temporary, infiltrate Anny Li begins to document the puddles she sees as she walks around NYC after noticing that they contain mysterious liquids. Through daily documentation, she is able to view... Continue Reading →
Reading - Radical Interiority: Playboy Architecture 1953-1979 by Beatriz Colomina How does Colomina say Playboy Magazine affected reader's tastes or desires for interior space?- Turns interiors into a masculine space, made it appropriate for men to be interested, more seductive than playmates, created a cycle of desire.Who were some prominent Modernist designers? What do their... Continue Reading →
Reading - Politics of Installation by Boris Groys How does Groys describe the relationship between the "field or art" and the "art market"?- Artwork identified as a commodity.- They're equivalent to each other.What is the main two concepts that he seeks to differentiate through an "analysis of difference" at the bottom of page one?- Differentiate... Continue Reading →
After choosing an artist model to analyse we moved onto a model making workshop drawing on elements used by our chosen artist. I chose an artist - Liz West - who uses colour and light as her main two mediums. I tried to source some materials that were similar to what she uses, or that... Continue Reading →
For my artist model I choose British born artist Liz West. A graduate from Glasgow School of Art, she covers a broad body of work comprised of site specific installations, sculpture and wall based artwork. Liz West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and light. Through this she aims to provoke a heightened sensory... Continue Reading →
As a class we went for a guided tour of the St James Theatre. The theatre was closed to the public in 2007 after an electrical fire and reopened for a final 20 shows in 2016. It has been closed since then due to the rundown state of the building and the potential hazards this... Continue Reading →
After our introduction to group seminars and choosing our research topic in week 2 we got to work answering the list of questions we had been assigned. The questions were designed to get us thinking more in depth about the colour we were researching (for our group it was blue) as we looked into its... Continue Reading →
Spatial Design 