The ArcelorMittal Orbit - Anish Kapoor

08/08/12 - The ArcelorMittal Orbit -  Anish Kapoor

On a family visit to London for the London 2012 Olympics I thought it essential to book a visit up the 'Orbit'.

I wanted to see what had been in the resent press, described as both, "...a ridiculous roller coaster caught up in a spaghetti junction" and yet "inspiring and uplifting."

I possibly think that the best public art always annoys someone..if not most.

Reversed Suspended Systems

Suspended Systems

Suspended in Space

Work completed Thursday 26th April

Amazonian Lines

In earlier crits associations to rivers have been made to my work. 

I have since looked into the passages of water in landscapes and have now begun to appreciate their appearance from above. 

I have looked in many books to see how the lines connect and weave in and out of each other. Its like a traffic light system, the rivers know where to merge and where to break off and make it's own paths. 

The Amazon River is the most impressive river channel in the world and can be seen clearly from out of space.

This is the image that I will use in my current and final work of year 1.

I will draw the main water ways, running to the smaller tributaries in pencil onto the dissolvable material and then use my sewing machine to add the lines. 

I would like to slowly dissolve the backing material by using funnels with filters, leaving only thread that once represented the biggest river in the world, destroyed by a few drips of water. 
It will be a time based piece, much like the other ephemeral work I have produced this year.

Material Evolving

Final semester of year 1!

I have come back after Easter knowing we had not long left before our end of year assessment, but I was very stuck.

I had been sewing and really enjoying the indexical markings that I'd been producing, through using the sewing machine on different fabrics. 

Over Easter I discovered a fabric commonly used in Textiles that dissolves in water. 

In earlier work in the year I had been trying to use the material to change the property another material. The processes of the material dissolving is magical to see, and each time I am mesmerised. 

So this term I am going to use the fabric to see how it can work for me and my work at the moment.

Im realising however, that using my sewing machine is very time consuming and I am already pushed for time. 

Here are some pictures of me working with the material: