Things You See on the Way to School
An experiment: abstracting elements that interact with water on a walk from my doorstep to the Barnard College campus
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Phase 1 focuses on separate elements on a walk from home to school. Phase 2 abstracts the experience of walking through Chinatown on a rainy night, with attention to the light from neon signs and traffic lights, fabric on umbrellas, the rain, and the interplay between the three.
Phase 1
1.
Piping
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Abstracts pipe systems that carry water from the tops of buildings to the ground
2.
Tortellini
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Abstracts the expansion of plastic construction buckets as they fill with rainwater
3.
Squiggly Tower
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Abstracts the compression of objects in trash cans as they fill with rainwater. Squiggly Tower is filled with colorful items of different densities, buoyancies, and expansion potential such as Lightbulbs, fake snow, sponges, and paper balls
4.
Wishing Well
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Abstracts the rolling of car tires against wet streets
5.
Cake
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The porosity of the bread and flour in Cake are analogous to the porosity of bricks and the dirt between them. Cake exaggerates the effect of rain on outdoor brick surfaces
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Hand-drawing of section perspective combining the six elements into one hypothetical machine.
Phase 2
Close-up of the interaction between light/fabric/water
Section representation of Traffic Lights installation
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Built in AutoCAD