Experiments, Research

Hand Arch – Failed Experiment

I attempted another experiment to create a 3D render of a hand, this time using 123D Catch. Unfortunately this resulted in another failed experiment, however the failure did have an interesting effect. Instead of creating a model of the hand, it instead captured more of the wall and left a gap where the hand was. Forming an archway dappled with some of the texture of skin merging into the painted stone of the wall.

handarch

This accident reminds me of the work of Rachel de Joode and in particular her work entitled ‘Sculpted Human Skin in Rock (I)’. De Joode’s work explores the relations between surface, materials and process and the interplay when a 3D object is presented in a 2D space. De Joode’s work with skin and texture is particularly interesting for me, taking fractured elements that make up the body and transferring these into architectural embodiments. Surface and what’s underneath pose interesting dualisms to explore in my own project work, the human condition to be embodied (to be an object within and around other objects) and also to have the ability to think of and perceive yourself outside of this.

Rachel de Joode

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