A while ago I was browsing the internet not really purposely searching, I came across some interesting videos or art pieces that I thought looked really cool. When thinking about what to do for this project I came across these pieces again, which in turn sparked my interest in wanted to base this project on weather in some way.
Daniel Wurtzel (main inspiration)
Using air as the main focus of his work Daniel Wurtzel does very simple and calm pieces of art that float or fly around in the center of the room. He creates these works as a way to make you look at the beauty of things that would originally gone unseen, like a plastic bag blowing in the wind. He tries to entrance his audience through having them watch his pieces, not making them question what it is but to relax the viewer.
The piece Magic carpet inspired me to make a piece that had some fitting music to it. So I looked further into his work finding that he has also done some work with smoke machines and projectors.
Magic Carpet
Feather Fountain
Snow
Fog and Fire Tornadoes
His work with the fire tornadoes got me thinking about natural disasters, but of course doing a piece that consists of hazards won't be very good let alone allowed, bet then he did a piece which he uses fog from a smoke machine to create a harmless tornado and then projects colours onto that fog to give it a fire effect.
Dustin Yellin
Dustin's piece called Psychogeographies gave me the idea to some sort of human based piece or sculpture. He also gave me the idea to create the sculptures faceless or with very undefined features this way people or audiences can relate to the pieces easier.
His pieces also give this effect that the person the sculpture is representing is being effected by what they're made of.
Ben young
And referring back to Ben for another artist study but the way his uses the glass for his pieces, making them look like water, from a material that's quite the opposite is very clever, giving me the idea to try and recreate disasters in physical form to apply to the sculptures.
Lotte Geeven
I picked Lotte as she has done some quite adventuress sound pieces and found her when looking for sound ideas to go with my piece.
One of her outstanding pieces that I've taken a lot of inspiration from is The Sound of the Earth as no one, not that I know of, has recorded the sound of the Earth so far underground. More information about the piece.
Another piece of hers that I briefly looked at shows her sending two sensory robots either side of the Atlantic Ocean to see if they might in the middle. Letting nature control the outcome of her art piece.
Tony Oursler
After a tutorial with my tutor she said that the artist Tony Oursler related to my idea. As his work consists of projecting images onto objects I'll look into is work to see if it can help me with projections and making objects to project on too. The same as Daniel Wurtzel he had projected onto fog or smoke which started off my inspiration.
Luke Jerram
When looking at this artist for another part of this blog I didn't realize that he did a piece on the Tohoku Japanese earthquake, the most devastating earthquake that caused 2 or 3 large tsunami waves to hit the coast of Japan and wash away most of it's coastal towns.
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