Assignment #3B
Public Art Installation
Stormking Art Center is a massive sculpture park just north of New York City in the Hudson Valley. It is home to a large collection of sculptural works that spread across 500 acres of rural land. And Goldsworthy, Richard Serra, Linda Benglis, Carl Andre are just a few of the names of artists who’s work is in the collection. But notoriety aside, the draw for me is the sheer scale of the work on display.
Spending time here is one of my favorite pastimes, it is a place I visit in order to get lost.
I always thought it felt like entering a Pink Floyd Album cover.
I have an ongoing series of sculptures I make that I always see as architectural. For this assignment I decided to scan them and scale them up to architectural scale.
I used the iSense iPad scanner to capture the models. The complexity of the models was hard for the scanner to accurately capture. They look like frosting or some organic form.
Exploiting the limitation of technology in this way is exciting to me.
I printed the models at about 5 inches, not a very architectural scale!
In order to present the prints to a scale I was imagining in my mind, I decided to create a diorama of a sculpture part similar to Stormking.
I carved out a landscape from a block of foam core. In retrospect. Would have liked to model this in Meshmixer and print it on the CNC machine.
Here are some images of the final diorama. It was fun applying these fake natural materials and seeing this world slowly come to life.
