Date: May 2020
Size: 1.3 x 1.24 x 2 m
Material: Bamboo, twine, plaster, sellotape
“To come together to form a single unit”
Arms of plaster support forms of bamboo. Stretching the limits of the relationship between the materials and space. Fighting balance, tension and gravity. A constant stream is drawn with bamboo and plaster.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Size: NA
Date: December 2019
Medium: Bamboo, plaster, jesmonite, twine, electrical tape, nails
Balancing, Holding, Relating. A focus on materiality and construction with the every day. Gravity, tension and a harmony amongst opposition is taken into account through the interaction with the environment.
Percolate is there to make you think differently about the building; perhaps in the way you physically interact with it, showcasing the smaller forgotten elements and details hidden in each of the rooms of the unique building, or what the building is and how we view it.
Through the use of sculpture, natural and modern building materials, Abraham is able to consider her own application of simplicity and tension.