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I was working in the group charged with constructing the base of the tree. Immediately below are the only pictures I have in progress of the real tree, so as promised, I have recreated the steps in a much smaller model. What was a foot in the original is an inch on the model.
No one in my group was initially on board with the design, but after the first model they let me take my shot. I measured the boards in millimeters and hewed them down so they were the same size. Then, with a considerable amount of help, cut off the extraneous bits to make the two sides the proper shape with hand saws. Then I measured the internal slits that would hold the pieces together on both boards. After that, one group peeled off to saw one board and I borrowed Boe and someone else (she's nice I'm terrible at names I'm sorry) to box-cutter (yes that's a verb) the second board. After its maiden fitting, you dropped by to draw some lines, we finished the rest. Then we all took to the boards with box cutters and attempted, usually successfully, to cut the boards without perforating our fingers with them. From there is was mostly out of my hands, the base was constructed out of the leftover squares from the box that made the main structure, tree limbs and roots were made by various people, Jatyra (lord knows if I spelled that right) worked on the round branch with me, and anyone who wasn't doing that was supporting the frame with hot glue. Janaina Mello Landini, practicing her art in São Paulo, Brazil, constructs displays by unbraiding ropes and displaying them on canvas, walls, or stretched across entire rooms. These are part of a series she calls 'Ciclotramas', a word Landini coined combining the root word for 'cycle' and the Latin word 'trama', meaning warp, weaving, or cobweb. She's relatively new to the sculpture scene, but has caught my attention with her creative use of rope. The ones stretching across rooms most intrigue me, it produces the feeling of a world deconstructed, being unraveled piecemeal, methodically, though seemingly without designs on the end result. It gives me ideas of other common items that can be artistically disassembled.
Her site displays some of her other works, but since my Portuguese language ability could be uncharitably described as 'nonexistent', I found it difficult to traverse. http://www.mellolandini.com/ |
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