Week 04: Imaging Scales

The work outlined below is due on Monday, September 16. We will discuss these criteria on Wednesday, September 11.

Consider three primary factors to make scale a part of the affect of the images you are producing:

1. Association with the ground(s). On Wednesday (Sept. 18) we will add ground (dirt, sand, soil) back into the images to bury the casts according to the site conditions of Sexhauer Field.
2. Human Form(s). Use the scaled figures (three sizes) to occupy the casts. I will bring the scale figures to studio. Reference, An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture by MOS and Studio Lin.
3. Matter into (Human) Form. How can the casts be made to transform matter into human form (figure out what that means)?

Imaging:

1. Print, trim and stitch one (1) T02 Blow-up image with scale figures of different sizes. Group the figures according to spatial and material relationships (figure out what that means). Think of the Bosch paintings, the density of people, their sizes, and organization across large swaths of space.
2. Print, trim and stitch one (1) T02 Blow-up Mirrored image with scaled figures. All scaled figures must be upright (people can’t be upside down or sideways) in the completed image. The image can’t be an exact mirror.

Cast(s), optional based on weather:

1. Make a new cast(s) according to the in-studio reviews and the image effects you are observing. The images outlined above don’t have to be made from these casts.

Writing:

1. Select 2 sentences (they don’t have to be consecutive) from Francesa Hughes’ “The Architecture of Error” and make them specifically relevant to your project. Copy these sentences and fill the gap between them by asserting a material/spatial position. Your observations should be about the specific consequences of the dig-cast-dig process.

You’re going to learn how to talk about your work by studying the reading(s).