This week has been focused on a few tests for how the final production of the Brazil work is going to go. Initially we had struggled with trying to find something which would be right for the concave shape of the cooling towers but two plastic shot glasses end to end has really done the trick!
Thinking more about the extra pieces - bookmark is going to be practicing making the clouds that go on the sides of the cooling towers. It will be different techniques of painting them and making them seem more ‘cloud-like’. The folded architectural drawing makes us think of a story someone told us about an architect at a party; after asking a stranger at a party what they do for a living and being told they’re an architect, they go on to tell them they’re looking to redo their house and if they could take a look and see what they think. The architect says sure and picks up a napkin and does a sketch which takes about 30 seconds, hands it to the other person and says, that’ll be (insert inappropriately large sum of money). The other person is very surprised and says ‘but that only took you 30 seconds’ and the architect replies ‘oh no, that took me 30 years of practicing architecture’. A very long winded way of saying that actions add up; becoming an architect takes about 7 years of training and learning, becoming a doctor takes even longer etc. Things that at first might appear not to have immediate value because they share the aesthetics of something that is unconsidered (sketchy or incomplete) may in fact hold much greater value due to the previous thought that’s gone into it. This can then be linked back to conceptual art; things which don’t necessarily appear to have lots of production behind them but are heavily considered.
