I uploaded most of stuff last year working with projection and learning more about it practically and exploring theories behind it.
I have recently been invited to participate in UAL Russia Alumni 'Share It!' debate centered around topic of '01. Reconstruction', where I have presented my work to audience of UAL Alumni and students of British Higher School of Art and Design as well as those from Moscow creative community.
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| Presenting |
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| Me talking about my research interest |
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| Showing sculptural work |
When considering talk for this session, I analyzed my experience and got to thinking that in my practice I have been interested in sculpture, and it was really exciting for me to observe how architectural model making becomes more of a sculpture with a change of aim and thus method applied. I started thinking about the sculpture outcomes as more of a separate line of work rather than a step towards the installation, and prepared specific set of work done for this presentation, in which I managed to explore my approach to sculpture further.
This sculpture from 2010 was created extruding the outline of the dome section.
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| Wax sculpture made extruding the section outline |
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| Sculpture pushed further through hands on experimentation with form |
These particular three have a much more complex shape than those that were simply extruded. Here I managed to simply experiment in the workshop, which I think allowed me establish expression I wanted to achieve, but the method I used was a bit vague.
Recently I started analysing my experience. I questioned my method for those sculptures I created in the beginning and started reimagining ways to create them using a different approach/ ways of combining my methods rather than imagining them as different directions in order to push this line of my work further. I realised I would like to look into a more systematic approach to shaping the form of the objects.
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| Negative space traced and filled |
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| Lathe |
This time I came up with tracing negative space, rather than outline of the section. Then, I decided to lathe it rather than extrude.
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| Explanation of section |
Again, as my interest was mainly about images, that could be obtained from models, I decided to make sections of 3D objects.
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| Slices of negative space |
It was exciting to listen to opinions when presentation finished. I was asked an interesting question whether the process could actually become a result in itself rather than a way to some sort of outcome. I am considering that and see ways the body of work completed as experimental stage could become actual work to present or exhibit. Having this method now I intend to experiment more with negative space as a substance for sculpture. I plan to explore this line of work further creating more experiments and then establishing connections to theory.
