Date: May 2020
Size: A5
Material: Ink pen on printer paper
Transformation between materials and scale, practising, planning. The intricacy of layers in transformable objects. Determining the next steps.
Outline
Hexahedron Wafer
Date: April 2020
Size: Under 3 x 3 cm
Material: Matchsticks, tissue paper and glue
Planning, preparing, balancing. Producing transformable structures, under gravity and tension. Small scale weight to determine a future of sculptural installation that encompasses an area.
Stasis
Date: March 2020
Size: 2 x 2.5 x 2.5 ft
Material: Bamboo, twine, plaster
Gravity takes its toll when adding weight. Unpolished, it could be disturbed by a simple knock or push. Holding itself in the moment. Two materials forced into a moulded relationship, to work together, to balance. Too heavy to hold itself without support.
Dan Shipsides
Reflecting a life of climbing, relationship to space and participatory engagement. Seek to create open narrative through that experience. Often using the contribution of others in multiple mediums. It draws from, responds to, documents or reflects the experience of seeing, being and doing whilst linking to social, political, environmental or historical contexts. Large-scale, noticeable from afar, making a statement.
Blush
Date: March 2020
Size: 2 x 2 ft
Material: Bamboo, red wool, brown wool, blue wool, white wool
Tepid or harsh. Soft against solid. Natural materials coming together to intersect and encompass. Exploring tension, fluidity, stasis. Blend in to the bamboo, or contrast against it. Linking and weaving together. Planning, preparation.
Bamboo Fissure
Date: March 2020
Size: 2 x 2 x 2 ft
Material: Bamboo, twine, wool
Tightening joints, making barriers and creating tension. Sturdy cube, gravity acting upon its weight. A methodological working of the twine, to intersect the bamboo and create it’s simple innocence. A series of linked, transformable items.
Bamboo
An invasive focal point that thrives in moist soil in a sheltered and sunny area. Running with underground stems to spread rapidly and rampantly. Evergreen perennial flowering plants with hollow stems and vascular bundles. Feeding off the environment, spreading its own seed, ready for those in the environment to feed off of it. Soft bamboo shoots, stems and leaves are the major food source of the giant panda of China, the red panda of Nepal, and the bamboo lemurs of Madagascar. Growing, chopping and manipulating into the useful forms that we use today.
Evince
Date: February 2020
Size: 2 x 2.5 m
Materials: Bamboo, electrical tape, twine, plaster
Reflecting surrounding architecture in its primal form. Balancing, holding, relating. Tighter connection of bamboo, playing with gravity and tension. Exploration into the capabilities of material.
Pressed
Date: February 2020
Size: Varying, <20 cm
Material: Plaster
Calming and curved, pumped up to reflect spaces of the every day within the environment. Larger, more potent in the space, providing gravity and tension to lighter areas.
Conjugated Cubes
Date: January 2020
Size: 15 cm x 7 cm
Medium: Wooden matchsticks
Balancing, holding each other in suspended motion. Natural material highlights the points of contact. Repetition, multiplication and relationship with gravity and tension.