This Sucks.

Tablecloth on wet ground, air has been pushed out from underneath creating suction. Rope pulls from center.

A brick.

 

 Too simple, there isn't enough of a pull from the brick.  Also the hole where the rope is attached lets in air which is slightly problematic; it doesn't last long.

Integrating the walls.

        A small rock being held by the square of suction cups stuck to a long white rectangular sheet of alluminium (left), and again with the brick working from the vacuum on the floor (right).

Thread is wound around the suction cups, spreading the pressure and grip, making a stronger anchor.

 Small rock hung from three footprint-shaped non-slip shower fixtures. Walking up the walls/ rock-climbing.... (bad joke).

Granite

 Instead of three seperate rocks working from three areas of suction, they are all interconnected and assisting each other in holding up the block of granite. Thread  was swapped for twine because of the sharp edges. The sheet of alluminium on the left which has the square of suction cups stuck to it is only screwed to the wall at the top, this allows the sheet to pull away from the wall and gives a visual of the pull on the suction cups.

   

I replaced the white tablecloth with a lighter temporary tablecloth, the lightness of the fabric shows the strain and suction more effectively; it shows the activity. I used a bulldog clip to attach the twine rather than cutting into the fabric.

The granite is too heavy, it won't hold for too long. I also prefer the asteroid look of natural rocks, they tie in better with the anti-gravitaional theme.

A medium-sized rock.

I replaced the granite with another rock and the twine with thread. I prefer the lines from the thread, they are hard to see from a distance and give the illusion of a floating rock, but they are easy to see close up and show the structure of how it is held.

  

The weight is distributed a little too efficiently, there is hardly any tug on the tablecloth, a heavier rock is needed.

A larger, heavier rock.

The thread needed to be spaced ridiculously carefully with this larger rock, hardened dirt created rough patches which don't bode well for sewing thread. I used small crevasses and curves in the rock, and the other threads, to hold each one in place from slipping.

 This installation lasted all day, I watered the vacuum on the floor at lunch (2pm) and took it all down at 5pm. There was still enough water left underneath the tablecloth to leave it for another hour at that stage. It could be sustained in a gallery environment by watering it every four hours or so. The suction cup wall fixtures can last a couple of days.

surface tension

Looking at the effect of line on water, how water bends around the contact area. The surface tension creates a sort of gravity; objects floating are drawn together.

 Bent paper clip:

  

Weight distribution using line:

 Some of the lengths of paper clip were shorter than others, making it difficult to fix together at a central point, so I made the circumference smaller and the angles sharper.

walkway

A set of four co-ordinates are laid out on the floor. Each square point contains material found on a couple of hikes I took, they are materials that I walked accross during the hikes. The co-ordinates are squares which can be stepped on, the footsteps of each interaction are amplified and played at one of the other squares. They are interconnected by sound; one square's sound being played through a speaker at another square, and that one's at another, and so on, until the trail loops. The sound's trail is one drawing which loops back on itself, but the trails of the people who cross the co-ordinates are not predetermined. The squares pick up a moment of crossing rather than defining the path or tracing it's entirety. For the exhibition in D-Light the co-ordinates were set out in and around the space where the catwalk would normally be for a fashion shoot, replacing it with a less defined walkway.

    

    

robot-v-wind drawing

This is an interactive video piece, it is projected onto a wood-framed screen at eye-level. The viewer is invited to map out the line that the pencil is making, recording the history of the drawing. The pencil point viewed from below can only be seen as a point in motion, it's route cannot be viewed as a whole unless it is recorded. The four time-based drawings start and stop abruptly, they are cut short and you are thrown into them, they are snippets of drawings that have all ready begun and haven't quite finished. Tracing where the pencil has been is difficult if you cannot keep up with its point, but anticipating its direction thereafter is where it becomes impossible.

This is one of the four drawings.