Having spent three months surrounded by and looking out onto angular buildings - in complete contrast to my surroundings here on the edge of the forest (Ashdown Forest) - and having become aware of a growing inward change as the Residency progressed, the straight lines and angles slowly getting into my bones, I found myself, these past two weeks, needing to find a way to scratch that itch.
Not an easy transition to make; from organic, flowing curves to the linear/rectilinear and angular. Many problems to address, as always, but the solutions here are different of course, and less intuitive for me at this stage: the thickness of each element, the evenness of each plane, the angle of the joint (in both directions), parallelity, the relationship between the lines, the relationship between the angles, that point where two elements intersect, the proportions of and relationships between the elements ...
I decided I would stay with my trusted method of starting off with the saddle plane, which gets the three-dimensionality going straight away. For an image of a 'saddle plane' click here saddle plane
and an explanation - the saddle plane, which is a convex inside a concave, the convex moving in one direction and the concave moving at a right angle to it (like the saddle in horseriding, or a Pringle, but more accentuated) - as per my post of 14/10/2010
And, of course, this form stems from the 'Form Finding' premise (click on 'Form Finding' under Series/Themes for all related posts).
This is the outcome of this morning's session. Obviously the whole thing will be turned upside down in the next session - it all needs to dry out a little more before that can happen - to extend the three-dimensionality in the other direction, i.e. the side that is sitting on the board now:
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