Orbit in Berlin/Wedding

Exhibition pics of Orbit at Gallery Wedding in Berlin, 13 - 28 September, a group exhibition as part of the Kulturfestival Wedding - Moabit 2013.

Orbit

Orbit made while working and living in a studio in Berlin for a month in May 2013 will be on display at

Galerie Wedding: „Wedding - Kunst Pur!“
from 14 to 28 September 2013
Müllerstraße 146/147, 13353 Berlin

Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag bis Samstag 12.00-18.00 Uhr
Eintritt Frei

'Cyano' in 3-D

Cyanotype on silk threads, 17.5cm x 34cm x 14cm. This piece bears all the marks of trying and finding out - so I learned a lot... The white 'sphere' within is not centred but an asymmetric oval.

The whole thing is, or rather its layers are, a 'blueprint' using sunlight to cyanotype the white 'egg' in the threaded blue body.

See also post on 19 August 2013 Is it or is it not?

Some debris...?

While tweaking Orbit a little bit to get it ready for the return trip to Berlin/Wedding in a couple of days (see events) I looked up images of 'orbit' on the www.

Curiously what came up - and caught my eye - were images of space debris ...

Screen-shots from an ESA video [at about 09:20 min.]

From: Debris in motion (video)

Computer generated images of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent the current location of each item. [...] not scaled to Earth. These images provide a good visualization of where the greatest orbital debris populations exist.  Source: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/beehives.html

Is it or is it not?

The piece mentioned in the last post, Globe... I made it ages ago and it is 'haunting' me ever since. Its body is nothing but vertical threads, so the white sphere is in there and not there, simultaneously. Maybe the images don't do justice to this aspect, but the three-dimensional impression of this piece doesn't let me go. So, this is what I'm currently wrestling with, again and once more.

'Stairs' ...

... is what came out of last year's On loom printing. Suspended in the studio this immediate kin of Globe now works as a compass for another sculpture. 

It is a study of how such a threaded body filters, reflects and absorbs light, when it is composed of rectangles, instead of a seamless round shape (see Globe). The white oblongs stepwise decrease in width while increasing hight.

At first Stairs was way to dense. Only after I removed every other thread the spaces between the threads were wide enough to 'fill' with light. Ultimately within the rectangle body of such a sculpture round shapes seem to work better.

Another web

The silk and polyester 'velcro' warp, see post  21 April 2013, has been patiently waiting... Now it's 'done' and off the loom, ready for printing - almost...

The warp behaved better than anticipated. And the actual weaving felt rather like bookbinding - threads instead of paper.

Filigree drawings in 3-d

When I recently scanned the garage, or rather shed, for useful items to reinstall my studio in Hull I came across these webs. Fortunately I resisted a first impulse to wipe them away - they were somewhat in the way - and realized how intricate and beautiful they are.

Underneath the webs I found loads of chipboards, moved from Basel to Hull ages ago - in fact it's 12 years... These boards now shield the wooden floor in my redecorated workspace from future activities. And yes, I managed to remove the boards without touching the webs.

Another asset is that much of my equipment, loom included, is now on wheels. One of the things I learned in Marion's studio in Berlin is, that it's soo handy when shelves and stuff are movable!

Orbit

Just completed last night. The shell of half a sphere, made of Mohair fibers, 42cm diameter.

Dancing up and down, between ceiling and floor - strung, crocheted and sewn with nylon thread.

And it's full moon today.

PS: Orbit is now part of a private collection.

Working

My 'work bench'. Drilling holes into acrylic glass with a drill thankfully borrowed from neighbours upstairs.

Most things take a little longer than expected... Finding material is a task on its own, but very rewarding. I came across Modulor and was happy to cycle 8km back and forth, twice. Three storeys packed with an enormous range of materials. It was hard to get me out of there.

I'm working on various items simultaneously. Things that I've done before happen in different ways. Using other materials changes the outcome. And, Marion's facilities provoke different procedures.

Sketches

1. co-ordinates

2. static

3. spiraling

Patterns of dots in a circle - with a sphere in mind. The co-ordinates (from H to B, see post 30 April) may have left their traces in these drawings.

4. sunflower seeds
[Source of image]

The first sketch 'Co-ordinates' merged into a drawing based on circles which is more static (2.). This turned into a spiraling (3.) version.

The resulting design recalls the pattern found in fir cones and sunflowers (4.).

The aim is again to transform from second into the third dimension...

Walking

Finds during the first few days, all within about 15 minutes walk from my current dwelling:

West:

Having said that there isn't much green near my doorstep I 'found' this piece of landscape not far from my current home:
Ploetzensee, a lake fed by groundwater in the middle of a huge green park, or rather three large parks.


South:

Lady with a hat peers over the trees into a street further south from here.




East:

Galerie Max Hetzler resides high up on the forth floor of the 'Osramhoefe'. A huge space entirely lit by daylight.
Work by Tony Ziegler.

Some more pics here.