Assignment 6 – Parallel Project

Parallel Project: To Deconstruct – take apart

After reflecting on my own research and considering my Tutor’s formative feedback for all of the Part 5 Projects and Assignments, I settled on a theme that has interested me for some time – the picture plane and different ways of looking and thinking about it.

Alongside this I decided to think again about the work that I carried out in Part 4 “Environmental Interventions” in particular.

Together, these two ideas led me to explore again my immediate surroundings, my home and its immediate environment – my sense of place and space. But with a twist. Thinking about ‘deconstructing” my close environment in a way that allows for the reconfiguration of the picture plane.

To this end, I started with a map of what an aerial view of my home and surroundings might look like and thinking about how best to capture this in a way that allowed for reconfiguration I chose some left-over laminate flooring panels as the base for my drawing. The ‘sketchbook pages’ section below explains my thinking and process (pages 7-17). This is followed by two sections showing the recto and verso deconstruction configurations of my drawings.

Once completed, I placed and recorded my drawings in their garden setting – watch video (1m34s) here: https://vimeo.com/330066078

Finished recto drawings

The added impact of viewing the drawing in its various guises in the natural environment brings light and shadow to play on the different configurations.

To deconstruct – take apart, original recto drawing 1 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

I had attached six dowels onto the surface of each side in order to allow the drawing to be placed flat on a surface. You can see their shadows clearly on this recto image:

To deconstruct – take apart, original recto drawing 2 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Standing upright in front of the pond – a precarious balancing act:

To deconstruct – take apart, original recto drawing 3 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Natural tree branch reflections and tree root add atmosphere and more lines, positive and negative space:

To deconstruct – take apart, original recto drawing 4 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Interacting with garden detritus raises interesting interpretations:

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 1 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Drawing panels on decking panels – a bold top outline:

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 2 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Finished verso drawings

The verso drawings show the connecting elastic bands and spring clamps needed to hold the panels together when they are not lying flat on a surface.

To deconstruct – take apart, original verso drawing 1 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Lying flat and connection free:

To deconstruct – take apart, original verso drawing 2 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Some additional help required to stand upright – the coloured dowels for standing flat can be seen:

To deconstruct – take apart, original verso drawing 3 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Leaning, not standing:

To deconstruct – take apart, original verso drawing 4 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Entangled in garden IT construction – who’s going to answer the ‘phone:

To deconstruct – take apart, original verso drawing 5 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Dowel shadows stand out:

To deconstruct – take apart, original verso drawing 6 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Early work on ideas for the Parallel Project can be found here: Drawing 2: Parallel Project – next steps and here: Drawing 2: Parallel Project – early idea sketches

Parallel Project: To Deconstruct – take apart (sketchbook pages)

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 1 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 2 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 3 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 4 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 5 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 6 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 7 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Following my Tutor’s formative feedback on these initial ideas, I re-thought my approach to Deconstruction, moving away from thinking about it in terms of theory and as a particular movement, to considering instead its processes, materials and interpretation.

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 8 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 9 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 10 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 11 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 12 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 13 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 14 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 15 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 16 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, sketchbook page 17 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Completed Drawing – recto, with deconstruction reconfigurations

To deconstruct – take apart, original recto drawing [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 1 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 2 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 3 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 4 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 5 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 6 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured recto drawing 7 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Completed Drawing – verso, with deconstruction reconfigurations

To deconstruct – take apart, verso drawing preparation [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, verso pencil drawing [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, verso ink drawing [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, verso drawing – blocking-in colour codes [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, verso drawing – blocking-in started [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

 

To deconstruct – take apart, verso drawing – blocking-in completed [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured verso drawing 1 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured verso drawing 2 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

To deconstruct – take apart, reconfigured verso drawing 3 [click on image to enlarge in new browser tab]

Stuart Brownlee – 512319
13 April 2019