Room With a View
Jordan Loontjens
"Sight"
68x20x7 cm
April 28, 2017
"Sight"
68x20x7 cm
April 28, 2017
Exhibition Text
"Falling Water" by Frank Lloyd Wright, "Widewalls" and "Tilted Arc" by Richard Serra. The meaning of this piece is represented by the amount of view allow to be seen from the entrance of this sculpture only allowing them to see their wall not what through it. I used the wood that was tilted bend and angled to contour the audiences view when going through my piece.
Planning
Brainstorming/Planning Sketches
Brainstorming/Planning Sketches
1. How does your work create a relationship between land and water?
1. By using the space to create a path between them that has some obscurity and is dividing the water and land.
2. What feelings will people have upon seeing, entering, walking through your structure?
2. Fist looking from the entrance its a small space that has no room for anyone. but as you enter it expands into this wide area of space.
3. How does your structure relate to our world physically as well as with our minds?
3. My structure relates to the real world on how many take the long way out due to obstacles being in their way.
4. How does your structure embrace the lake?
4. by making the trip to get to it more complicated then it should be.
5. How does your structure use the fundamental architecture components of: Path, Portal, and Place?
5. Path is used like the wonky path from the board game candy land. The portal being so open so wide and welcoming. the place is so simple and mystic and so obscure with the wide pathway along the beach.
6. How does your structure embody meaning?
6. That we will take the long way out due to obstacles being in their way.
7. Describe at least 3 meaningful decisions.
7. That we shouldn't judge a book by its cover: how the entrance is small until you walk through and the space and see an open room. The hurdles you have to jump to make it through difficulties
Artist Inspiration
My piece "Sight" my inspiration was "Falling Water" by Frank Lloyd Wright, "Widewalls" and "Tilted Arc" by Richard Serra In my piece. I had smooth curves walls like Richard Serra with "WideWalls". "Tilted Arc" by Richard Serra inspired me the most with the creation of my piece. It helped me capture the three points of our project which is place, path, and portal. Serra helped me capture the element of path within my piece by me using a tilted arc to make my structure enclosed making it more like a path. The other inspiration of Serra with "WideWalls" inspired the least but it helped me figure out what my path would look like in a real life example. My piece title "Sight" was me trying to portray what you get when you take this path on in this place and exit through a portal.
The Meaning
The meaning of this piece is represented by the amount of view allow to be seen from the entrance of this sculpture only allowing them to see their wall not what through it. I used the wood to contour the audiences view. My piece title "Sight" was me trying to portray what you get when you take this path on in this place and exit through a portal. I wanted my piece to hit each of the criterion and "Falling Water" by Frank Lloyd Wright, "Widewalls" and "Tilted Arc" by Richard Serra. The point of this MIAD project is create a structure that will draw the audience at Bradford beach to go through your piece. This can be done by using placement and the form of your structure. Then after this you want to make them go through you piece creating a path for them that will at the end will lead to the sight of the beach. The amount of freedom of this piece is immense and all the possible of what your structure will be just by changing the place, portal, and path of your piece.
Reflection
Throughout the project, I’ve learned many things from this project some on accident. The first problem I had was how will I approach the three main components of MIAD's room with a view project. I wanted to capture place, portal, and path with my piece but when planning this I didn't know how I would succeed with accomplishing all three within one piece. So what I did for place is I put it aside to make it stand out more on the beach.I was also successful with portal having the entrance entering being big but as you go in further it gets smaller. I also was successful with path by having one of my walls be tilted like my artistic inspiration to enclose my structure creating a path leading to the beach view. When being critiqued by Bob he told the group my piece was the best example of what we were trying to capture with this project the purpose of making this structure. Although what my piece was lacking was craftsmanship which I fixed after, but my piece was a mess with the hot glue showing in between the walls and it wasn't a clean presentation of the quality of my work.However this project has make me think more deeply of the reasons for many pieces like mine and my inspirations.
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Proccess
I started by gathering the materials that I need for this piece. I grabbed wooden pieces, black stock paper, and cardboard to construct this project. Then I cut the cardboard into four pieces with an X-acto and then glued them onto my black stock piece of the paper which represents the water of the Bradford beach and the cardboard represents the sand of the Bradford beach. after i glued each of the cardboard pieces onto my black stock paper i then started to make the outline the place where i would be placing my wooden pieces. I made a outline with pencil of what my wooden strips would be like for my walls. After i cut the walls out i then glued them onto my sand on my piece. I then realized that there was a lot of excess glue showing on my piece so i decided to redo it and take more time with it and use less glue. After everything was glued I was finished with my piece.
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Connection to ACT
1. Identify cause and effect relationships between your inspiration and your artwork.
My piece was inspired by "Falling Water" by Frank Lloyd Wright, "Widewalls" and "Tilted Arc" by Richard Serra which helped me come up with the idea of my piece using tilted arcs.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The overall approach to their pieces is to attract the viewers towards their piece and to go through their pointless complex structures.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration? I discovered that pieces like "Tilted Arc" by Serra are suppose to get in your way which was interesting to me they would want people to be mad at his piece.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme of my piece is to find inspiration from those who want their piece to be blocking someones way but still attracting them to go through it anyway.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
That my inspiration Serra with his obscure wall like structures and them having no visual significance besides being a wall and people accepting it as a work of art.
My piece was inspired by "Falling Water" by Frank Lloyd Wright, "Widewalls" and "Tilted Arc" by Richard Serra which helped me come up with the idea of my piece using tilted arcs.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The overall approach to their pieces is to attract the viewers towards their piece and to go through their pointless complex structures.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration? I discovered that pieces like "Tilted Arc" by Serra are suppose to get in your way which was interesting to me they would want people to be mad at his piece.
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme of my piece is to find inspiration from those who want their piece to be blocking someones way but still attracting them to go through it anyway.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
That my inspiration Serra with his obscure wall like structures and them having no visual significance besides being a wall and people accepting it as a work of art.
Citations
(n.d.). Retrieved May 04, 2017, from http://www.fallingwater.org/
W. (n.d.). Richard Serra. Retrieved May 04, 2017, from http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/richard-serra/
Tilted Arc. (2017, April 19). Retrieved May 04, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilted_Arc
W. (n.d.). Richard Serra. Retrieved May 04, 2017, from http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/richard-serra/
Tilted Arc. (2017, April 19). Retrieved May 04, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilted_Arc