Monday 18 January 2010

+ A draft for my project report

While day time is changing, the forms in nature are changing also; there are the slight changes formally, and the parallel changes visually. The changes outside are reflecting inside. The memories which are recorded with the glance from inside to outside are archived in the airship over the time by using projection technique.

Technology of the last century is quite dependent on projective principles, such as optics necessary to photography and cinema, virtual slicing of the body for medical imagery systems, and targeting weapons from handgun scopes to advanced GPS-based military hardware (Caste 2009). My projection technique conceptually refers to the way of thinking about 4D time-based spaces.

The airship has a reflecting speciality which allows one to see the inside from the outside. This speciality provides an opportunity to observe the position of the airship in the parallel time. The shadows of the constructions are used as deformed copies of origin of a memory in a time-based system.

When one change is repeated a second time, it is occurring quicker next time, and also archiving a copy is becoming quicker (Sheldrake 1998). These copies are creating a system which includes some data of elements such as the climatic conditions and the population in the landscape.

The landscape in the Stowe Garden. Stowe Garden is a place in England that includes several types of structures which belong to different time periods and geographies. Each structure has a different history, culture, art and different notions of spaces. These landscapes build a spatial composition bringing together all particular moments in time which give inspirations to the painters for the picturesque landscapes. The picturesque was a concept that emerged in the eighteenth century, embodying a new attitude towards beauty in nature (Liverpool Museum 2002).

However, there is a contradiction in structures such as Chinese house, Gothic temple, Palladian Bridge, because they were not constructed for their typical function. Stowe was owned, enhanced and expanded by one family for almost 350 years. Two key characters Lord Cobham and his nephew Earl Temple were extremely rich and powerful men during the 18th century. Together they created one of Europe's most influential landscape gardens. There are over 40 monuments and temples in the 300 hectares site (BBC 2006).

These recordings will be used to construct a concept under light and shadow. The airship will be between concrete and abstract, dealing with light and colour as the spaces are more open or closed or smaller or shifting.

I will add references of the idea of drawing the shadows, light performance, corridor, dazzle pattern, palimpsest, copy, and inside-outside to the report.

References

BBC 2006, Stowe gardens: A brief history of the Stowe, Retrieved January 14, 2010, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2006/07/07/stowe_history.shtml

Caste, R 2009, The Origin of Painting. Retrieved November 12, 2009, from http://projectionsystems.files.wordpress.com

Liverpool Museum 2002, The picturesque landscape. Retrieved January 14, 2010, from http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/turner/landscape.asp

Sheldrake, R 1998, The Presence of the Past: morphic resonance & the habits of nature, Park Street Press, Vermont.