Time to Re-think and Re-group
It seems as if it would be prudent to re-think my project for the final presentation.
Initially I was intent on exploring the nature of the fold in relation to constructions that comprised of my knitted substrates which involved exploring various 3 dimensional programs such as 3d max. I was interested not only in performing these multiples of actions in three dimensional Space, but also representing them in Time.
My initial experimenting focussed largely on the latter aspect of the problem which led to a prolonged encounter with various video editing programs and the implications of collecting and compiling clips and stills on a time line. This took a lot longer than I had initially anticipated and left very little time to properly encounter any further development of the dimensional aspect of my brief.
The final consensus therefore, of necessity has been to continue to concentrate on making a collage, collating and compiling various aspects of evidences on a time line in a Video Editing program.
Because the notation connected with recording knitting structures is often represented in a graphed format, this has become pivotal in my work.
I then will confine my efforts to exploring this connection.
I am reminded of an incident that occurred to me some time ago. I was very friendly with Irene and Jane Halsman , daughters of the Photographer Philippe Halsman. They recounted a project that he was working on with Salvador Dali. This was a video that was constructed around the idea of a ‘grid’ of boxes. Various objects were situated in each box. For example, in one box there were some motorcycles, in another some female models. Yet another held a group of Pigs and another contained some popcorn. As it was recounted to me, …the video recorded the popcorn as it flew up into the box with the pigs who then ate it; and the motorcycles flew over to the box where the women were and started to undress them. It seemed, at the time, to be very bizarre.
If I now were to work to a gird, could I adapt this idea of objects flying from one square to another in order to perform various actions ?
Deleuze and Guattari in Chapter 14 of their book ‘A Thousand Plateaus’ speak about ‘the smooth and the striated’, contrasting the two elements… nomad space and sedentary space as two opposites in nature. That is, a rigid and uncompromising space with a fluid and creative space. But they also add that the two exist only in mixture.
My knit stitch grid gives rise not to a fixed geometrically shaped substrate, but to one which more closely resembles an organic structure. In other words, I might attempt to convey the idea of this quality of morphing in my presentation as well as the notion of a conglomeration of elements [stitches] as a metaphor for the planes that are made of up innumerable monads collected representing the accumulation of tensions within the piece.
Initially I was intent on exploring the nature of the fold in relation to constructions that comprised of my knitted substrates which involved exploring various 3 dimensional programs such as 3d max. I was interested not only in performing these multiples of actions in three dimensional Space, but also representing them in Time.
My initial experimenting focussed largely on the latter aspect of the problem which led to a prolonged encounter with various video editing programs and the implications of collecting and compiling clips and stills on a time line. This took a lot longer than I had initially anticipated and left very little time to properly encounter any further development of the dimensional aspect of my brief.
The final consensus therefore, of necessity has been to continue to concentrate on making a collage, collating and compiling various aspects of evidences on a time line in a Video Editing program.
Because the notation connected with recording knitting structures is often represented in a graphed format, this has become pivotal in my work.
I then will confine my efforts to exploring this connection.
I am reminded of an incident that occurred to me some time ago. I was very friendly with Irene and Jane Halsman , daughters of the Photographer Philippe Halsman. They recounted a project that he was working on with Salvador Dali. This was a video that was constructed around the idea of a ‘grid’ of boxes. Various objects were situated in each box. For example, in one box there were some motorcycles, in another some female models. Yet another held a group of Pigs and another contained some popcorn. As it was recounted to me, …the video recorded the popcorn as it flew up into the box with the pigs who then ate it; and the motorcycles flew over to the box where the women were and started to undress them. It seemed, at the time, to be very bizarre.
If I now were to work to a gird, could I adapt this idea of objects flying from one square to another in order to perform various actions ?
Deleuze and Guattari in Chapter 14 of their book ‘A Thousand Plateaus’ speak about ‘the smooth and the striated’, contrasting the two elements… nomad space and sedentary space as two opposites in nature. That is, a rigid and uncompromising space with a fluid and creative space. But they also add that the two exist only in mixture.
My knit stitch grid gives rise not to a fixed geometrically shaped substrate, but to one which more closely resembles an organic structure. In other words, I might attempt to convey the idea of this quality of morphing in my presentation as well as the notion of a conglomeration of elements [stitches] as a metaphor for the planes that are made of up innumerable monads collected representing the accumulation of tensions within the piece.
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