Landscape does not exist in isolation, it is of course part of the cultural & environmental climate that shapes it. We envision it as we move through it. Change is naturally inevitable.
A picture – ‘landscape in the storm of discontent’
ideas – brewing.
Following images begin to give an idea to what the Insictor form is all about and the layering of elemental keys.
The fluid transitions rise and fall, escarpment, swathe and hollow.
Traveling at speed below the edge line of the South Down.
Whilst at the same time transcending scales – animated in motion, walking, crawling at perhaps no more than 6 mm high.
It is a complex project and a long way still to go as yet.
The thread bars that lock the elements onto the stainless steel frame. Eventually these will be shortened and capped.
Middle section profiling next.
Now the main structure and assembly is well underway, its time to begin looking at the style, line weights and fluid transitions of the components.
Its quite a task. The main components are quite large and being totally irregular in form, clamping and gripping takes time to set up to work on each of the component pieces.
The images show one of the lower leg arrangements taking shape.
As each cut progresses periodic re-assembly is required in order to evaluate the form in its entirety.
Insictor is an asymmetric piece, however it is still imperative that the overall form appears reflectively balanced and that each line weight movement flows gracefully into the next.
Insictor structure begins to take shape – strung together on a stainless steel tube sub frame assembly.
At this stage nearly all legs have been initially fitted to the body structure although the compound curve gap set joints previously mentioned are still to be fully formed.
These images give a first glimpse to the spatial presence of the piece and you can perhaps begin to get a sense of what this work is all about.
And here are a couple of sneak glimpses of the new hammerhead chair. (see earlier posts)
You will be able to experience this piece soon at the end of March – 21st Century Furniture – The Arts & Crafts Legacy 2 – exhibition.
At the Millinery Works, Islington, London
For those unable to attend – full set of images will be published April.
