Spacial Blueprint

Folded Landscape

Printer Paper, Masking Tape, Super Glue

16" x 10" x 2.5"

This piece is a representation of my old home back in Vermont. I wanted to take a more geometric and minimalist approach with this relief sculpture, emphasizing the contours of the land which is juxtaposed with more rigid forms to represent the forest. The decision to use a monochromatic blue color palette is reflective of the cold winters up north. At the time of starting this project I was also working with packaging design and paper folding. I really enjoyed the techniques used to turn 2D templates into 3D objects and wanted to incorporate them into this piece. All of the forms in the piece were designed in Adobe Illustrator, printed, and then folded according to the guidelines I had defined.

Research

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Diane Ackerman: Touch

"Also, scientists have discovered that most of the nerve receptors will respond to pressure, as well as to whatever they specialize in. For the longest time we assumed that each sensation had its own receptor and that that receptor had its own pathway to the brain, but it looks now as if the body's grasslands of neurons relate any sensation according to electrical codes." With this concept, I wanted to create a diagram of the assumed anatomical structure of the nervous system. The key word is "assume", as the design is entirely interpretive, much like how the original scientific interpretation was inaccurate. The colors loosely correspond with different senses, and all travel back towards the brain. "In the sand-swept sprawl of the panoramic film Lawrence of Arabia a scene of quintessential machismo stands out: T. E. Lawrence holding his hand over a candle flame until the flesh starts to sizzle. When his companion tries the same thing, he re...

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