Natural Rhythms

Since Jerusalem and the photography course i took i have thought more about natural rhythms. It seems to articulate something within me and my work that makes sense.

I took the idea of this through to a 3D idea by casting a romanesco which is an obvious example of the Fibonacci's Number:

This year i would like to take these sequences further and my first idea is to use the sledged mould i made for the dishes as a base and build up clay slip, maybe with pigment in for colour and make leaf skeletons that hang from the ceiling:

Opposite me in the studio space in Jerusalem there was a woman working with this same technique.

Water Sculpture

Home - Taking a break in the sun room - Look out the window - Think the pond needs a bit of sprucing up - Oo why dont i make a sculpture! One thought lead to another and this is what i came up with :

Ceramic dishes that tilt onto the one below it when full enough of water. The water ends up in the pond.

I would like to find a way that allows me to take the water from the pond up to the first dish again with out the use of electricity. Was thinking Archimedes' Screw could be a possible solution. But, it is quite a beefy piece of engineering. 

So my thought was to cast a 4ft balloon to get the correct gradient of curvature to the dish.

But then I learned about Sledging Plaster

So i made a mould by sledging plaster instead of casting a balloon. 

Packed out with clay (could have done more of this before casting, live and learn...

18kg of Plaster used to make this.

Then used Claypitts clay to make the first dish: 

However now it is drying the clay is too heavy so big cracks are forming where gravity is pulling it apart. So i will need to take a cast to make the inverse of the current mould.

Chaicycle

Summer thoughts:

WOMAD

Belladrum

Roskilde Festival

People want to be together. 

Thoughts of leaving university with no job to go to. My dad was thinking of making a cafe. I enjoy cooking/ making food as well so why don't i do a mini 1 person version of that? I like things to pollute the environment as little as possible; so build something onto a bike. Or have a couple people together carrying a tent together. 

What are the practicalities of this ? A tent pole is damn heavy ( i'm talking like on big enough to house a  cafe of people). 

Why not a geodesic dome, i have always wanted to make one so why not now? The staff of the cafe could each have a bike trailer and carry with them a fraction of the weight. 

Food: to start off just sell simple 1- 3 things what about tea chai and coffee ? 

Thomas's thoughts of involving something computer related into the project. Solar sombreros ... charge your phone while in the shade and drinking a chai/tea/coffee. Or wifi on one thing at the desk. 

Rinky Dink (above) has stayed in my mind ever since the live 8 make poverty history march in 2001 ish time. I love the communal nature of this contraption. How it does so many things but fundamentally is just a bike.

Also, Hannah Brackston (above) was my helper 4th year when i was in first year and it was inspirational to see where environmental art could take you. Another good example of a bike sculpture practical thing.

My thoughts for a project:

A Solar Cooker would het up the chai/tea/coffee and be a sustainable and free way to heat the product.

Degree Show Inspirations

Woodlands Garden: Clay oven bread making

Firing up the oven 

First bread attempt: burnt on the outside and dough on the inside.

Fire too hot.

Sharing bread 

Second attempt at baking bread: Bread cooked in pan first to hold the shape of the loaf, then put in the entrance of the fire. needed to turn the bread so it would cook on all side equally

Fire just right bread baked well.

Oven Door on

Jenny's naturally dyed bunting, Turmeric, henna and Rhubarb

Fired

Ash Glazes

Seaweed Ash

Oak and Larch Ash

Oak Ash