Summary post for keeping track of everything :)
It's been a slow week for me. I'm still working away on finishing some readings and literature reviews, and have been mostly focusing on creating works that can be explored in the upcoming critique. Current focus is the point cloud rock videos, thinking on the concept of landscape, temporality, shifts in form, interaction of human and non-human histories,... The idea of the earth constantly reshaping itself; an ongoing state of ecological and geological flux... The anywhere and everywhere -ness of it all perhaps.
I'm also doing a little revising of and planning around On the horizon, just above the waves, my video work from last year, as it was recently accepted for exhibition at Window Gallery in May (which is exciting and a little scary!)
What I've been reading:
Photo of my current reading pile, most of which I'm about 1/3 of the way through... Some are more relevant than others to my practice, but am enjoying delving into all of them. Have also been revisiting On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell (managed to find a copy for myself, yay!), Lucy Mackintosh's Shifting Grounds, and Geoff Park's Theatre Country.
Studio work
Revising and creating point cloud videos from scans of volcanic rock walls in Cornwall Park, Maungawhau and Tāmaki Drive. One of my favourite rock walls is the free-standing one in Cornwall Park, which isn't connected to any other surrounding fences or structures. It's a bit paradoxical as an object, given what it was initially built to do. I like it a lot for that reason...
I also really love how there are a few stones along the Tāmaki Drive sea wall that have visible lava flow patterns; looking outwards towards Rangitoto, the volcanic creation element feels really tangible. To my knowledge these rocks were quarried from Mt Wellington - I'm not sure how much I want to explore that linking of site so much as the commonality between the volcanic material...
I've figured out that some of the more ephemeral point cloud works come from the larger object scans - for example focusing on the top of a 6 meter long wall in Cornwall Park, rather than the smaller studies that focus on 1-2 meters of rock.. The point cloud density is high enough to give the forms in the works an vapour-like quality without the points being too visible, while allowing the form of the rocks to still come through as unique 'landscapes' in their own right... Something to keep in mind for future gathering expeditions
Below: examples of a small study point cloud works. Am hoping to get into DEMO next week to do some more tests and see what things look like next to each other...
More TBA as they render (currently taking between 2 and 24 hours per video depending on complexity...)
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