Current explorations:

These are some photos of garments I have found locally along K rd, Auckland City.

As I mentioned before I have started to become interested in finding these already ordered and constructed garments, dismantelling them, pulling them apart, and then reconstructing them into new patterns, sometimes combining garments, and exploring the colour relationships in these patterns.

 

 

This is a small knitted blanket from another op shop

 

•  I am unravelling it ftom the centre becasue I am intereste in how the blanket itself can become both the item that I draw material from and a background frame/support.
• I am planning to continue unravelling the garment until I am happy, then use the thread to possibly connect to another hanging frame infront of the blanket...
• I am unsure of how I want to try and construct this fram..maybe wire, plasic or wood
• Then I want to construct a joining pattern from the blanket frame to the hanging frame (in the end the frame may just b for holding shape and the thread will layer up to build a structure around this support.
• I may also try using the thread to creat a structured pattern of my own next to the blanket or over it - altering the structure, and the rhythm of the origional pattern to make a pattern of my own.

 

This scrap material is another way for me to get materials and create my own images/ change existinig patterns.

 

 

I have also been collecting smaller constructed items like bracelets to unravel and create smaller works with their bold/buzzing colours.

Unwinding them and combining them will allow me to take these strands which have previously been manipulated and structure by someone else, and re order them to make a pattern/ image of my own.

 

Collected by someone else  ->  made into a constructed item with a purpose  ->  found and dismantled by me  ->  reconstructed with a new rhythm and purpose (without a purpose)



 

 

 

 

 

Looking at different ways of portraying my ideas of chaos and control (a sense of structure, order, system, repetition etc)

Artist: Cai Guo-Qiang 

Daytime fireworks:
He has created displays using microscopic controlled explosives, all calculated to create different patterns. coloured smoke, and sounds on both the ground and sky.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/news/article/-/12352196/intense-daytime-fireworks-explode-with-brilliant-colour/
 - video at the bottom of the page.

rendering of 'wreath' from black ceremony 

outside the museum walls, cai planned his signature explosions as part of the exhibit opening. 'black ceremony' is a progression 
of 10 detonations near the city of mathaf. 8, 300 shells ignited to form a black pyramid as well as colorful circles, 
triangles and rectangles; shapes which hold significant meaning for the arabs. the video of the event is presented 
as part of the displayed works.  

Black Ceremony, 2011, Controlled explosion, 8,300 black smoke shells fitted with computer chips, Explosion area 29,500 square meters, 3 min.

rendering of 'halo' from black ceremony 

• these works start as a controlled, set up installation that has been made from small explosives which themselves are chaotic, violent and destructive.
• I am interested in how something such as a bomb that is seen as violent has been arranged to generate these beautifully controlled explosions.