Gravity Wall
1.5 weeks
materials: food, paper, paint, string, books, plastic, ink, tape, push-pins, glass, photos, magazines
materials: food, paper, paint, string, books, plastic, ink, tape, push-pins, glass, photos, magazines
In my Design I Gravity Wall, I sought to challenge the idea of a 'wall' through the definitions of gravity.I used modularized units to create a 'wall' that was more mental than physical.
In recreating this project, I don't defy or challenge the notion of a 'wall.' In fact, the wall in this project is a typical, residential, exterior load-bearing wall. It's one of the four walls that box my space and make my room a room.
My Design I project had to do with repelling people in a way. The thought of passing underneath the 'wall', of having the weight just above your head, would keep you away. The wall was a barrier.
This time, I am exploiting the idea of gravity in the opposite way. Attraction. This wall attracts me. It is composed of the things in and around my life that pull me in. It doesn't talk about the gravity of things falling to the ground but what it means for something to fall to the ground. That when I drop an apple, it falls to the ground because it is being pulled closer to the center of the earth. And that is how I understand what this wall does to me. I gravitate towards it. It pulls me in. I am the apple, it is the earth. No barrier. It defines me and my space.
My Gravity Wall is organized by density. Everything is composed of energy, and the idea is that the densest energy is in the middle. This is the matter. The physical things that attract me, like a caramel roll and my mom. The next layer, or ring is emotional. Emotions are real energy, but much less dense than the physical matter at the core. It reflects the emotions that I am attracted to and the emotions I have about what's at heart. The final level of energy is the outermost ring of the wall and is composed of mental energy, or my thoughts.
I gravitate towards the physical, and then this is reenforced and enhanced by the emotions and thoughts I have. I eat a caramel roll, it nourishes and satisfies my body. The flavor, taste, texture makes me feel good. It brings back memories of Christmas and Easter mornings when my mom would get up super early in the morning and bake them. My thoughts pull me back to the center. A new thread of the most dense to the finest, from the physical to emotional to mental can be traced.
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Is there a shadow?
My Design I project had to do with repelling people in a way. The thought of passing underneath the 'wall', of having the weight just above your head, would keep you away. The wall was a barrier.
This time, I am exploiting the idea of gravity in the opposite way. Attraction. This wall attracts me. It is composed of the things in and around my life that pull me in. It doesn't talk about the gravity of things falling to the ground but what it means for something to fall to the ground. That when I drop an apple, it falls to the ground because it is being pulled closer to the center of the earth. And that is how I understand what this wall does to me. I gravitate towards it. It pulls me in. I am the apple, it is the earth. No barrier. It defines me and my space.
My Gravity Wall is organized by density. Everything is composed of energy, and the idea is that the densest energy is in the middle. This is the matter. The physical things that attract me, like a caramel roll and my mom. The next layer, or ring is emotional. Emotions are real energy, but much less dense than the physical matter at the core. It reflects the emotions that I am attracted to and the emotions I have about what's at heart. The final level of energy is the outermost ring of the wall and is composed of mental energy, or my thoughts.
I gravitate towards the physical, and then this is reenforced and enhanced by the emotions and thoughts I have. I eat a caramel roll, it nourishes and satisfies my body. The flavor, taste, texture makes me feel good. It brings back memories of Christmas and Easter mornings when my mom would get up super early in the morning and bake them. My thoughts pull me back to the center. A new thread of the most dense to the finest, from the physical to emotional to mental can be traced.
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Like almost any idea, the idea of making something that I gravitate towards was one of those 'aha' moments. Not the kind that I want to pat my self on the back for coming up with, but one of those that just clicked and I immediately wanted to work with. My mind took off running with lists of what the wall could include but how I would build/construct/organize it weighed down on me. This 'how' turned this project into something I that intimidated me and hence I was avoiding it. Time seemed to easily be eaten up by everything else in my life.
Architecture projects had been my life and eaten all my time. I'm working on finding a balance and harmony because when I think about it, my time isn't actually gobbled up by anything. I need to just continue learning how to work with it and how it works with me so the gravity wall doesn't become so grave before I see the light! So deadlines I set for myself don't get bigger and bigger. So things I want to explore and want to write about and blog about don't become tasks.
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Is there a shadow?
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