Workshop 3- Submission 2

This week's theme is "body, space, city" which required a site visit at the city centre. We then need to find an appropriate aspect of the city in relation to our body and explore the experience in relation to the space and time in our text, collage and model.

When I walked from the Hyde Park  to Circular Quay, I found the buildings located each side of Elizabeith Street had two completly different style: the buildings on the left represent a sense of modern with mainly concrete, steel and glass wall structure; the buildings on the right present the historical view of the city, with mainly Gotic and Romania design and brick wall structure. So the aspect I found was "diversity". The Elizabeith Street acts as the division of the design and history located at each side of the street. This concept is shown in my collage:

I also use yellow filter to take photos of the old building in order to emphasise the sense of diversity.

At the beginning of my model design, I was going to use the Gordon Matta Clark's "Splitting" we learnt from the first submission, so I cut the balsa wood and put it on one side to represent the historical view of the city and the white mount board on the other side to show the modern view of the city, with nothing in between. But as my modelling processing, the tutor came to me and suggested that maybe I can just focus on the "division line" as I already showed the same thing on my collage, then I started to put my two parts standing together but still with different material. After that I tried to develop my model by using acetate on both the walls and the top of the mount board. The idea of modern is stressed through the use of transparent material. Then I cut some balsa wood and made them like people standing next to the structure and the steel wire is acted as the connection between the two. The pieces of paper stripe presents the natural environment of the surroundings.

Although I thought the model looks modern and pretty, however, when the tutors checked my model, they put out the paper stripes and the balsa wood sticks, leaving only the two major pieces and the steel wire. Probably they thought I put too little effort into this submission and I only got P- for this task. But for me, I thought I had improved a lot from the first model, which is a pleasing result.