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Stage 2:

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Stage 2 Assignment:

Begin Thursday, September 20, Due Friday September 21

 

Assignment products due from each individual:

 

1. Produce a 30”x 40” horizontal drawing sheet composed as follows:

1. One Photoshop photomontage series illustrating your three folded paper constructions—boat, plane, mask

2. One Photoshop photomontage series illustrating your body positions, its overlaid point geometry, and its wind tunnel characteristics

3. One Photoshop photomontage series illustrating the construction of your RiverBody

4. All three of the above Photoshop photo montage series should be composed as follows: Draw over the photographs with arrows and dotted lines and text/sequence numerals/notations as necessary to explain the process and meaning of the work, and to explain observed or anticipated air flow, water flow and sunlight registration. All photos should be object and air, water and sunlight/shadow context only--no backgrounds! All photos should be black and white unless selected components are highlighted in original color and/or in fill colors for coding and annotation purposes.

5. These photomontage series should be composed as a single beautiful presentation drawing page, plotted at full size as a single sheet. Text should be Helvetica or Arial or similar simple modern Chinese character font, small, well-composed and not used as decoration.

6. You may use Autocad or other drawing software for line drawing over your photographs. These approaches and techniques will be discussed in your studio sections.

 

2. Produce the following RiverBody

1. You will build a paper RiverBody. It will be made of large sheets or rolls of good quality drawing paper, such as Arches. In order to be economical in your design process, you should make quick test components in butcher paper, and then replace these with finalized Arches paper components as your RiverBody develops. 

2. Again, work quickly, be creative and have fun—don’t agonize over your decisions, there are still no right or wrong ways to get started on this. If you cannot find the prescribed materials, be creative and use something similar and equally effective—never get stopped or bogged down because you don’t have exactly the right stuff or because you don’t know what to do. Work safely, be neat, and work to a high level of craft—these projects must be beautiful and will again be photographed and drawn as the basis for more project steps to follow.

3. Create this folded paper RiverBody for your same previously designed body positions, based on the river flows in you section of the river. The folded paper RiverBody structure should be designed according to the same material and construction rules as in the previous Mask folding project. The purpose of the RiverBody will be to protect and to make comfortable your previously designed body position as it resides in the river flow.

 

4. This RiverBody may be created from multiple sheets of paper, but the RiverBody should be one continuous surface linked together as a single object with substantial structural integrity (since it is designed to enfold your body position, it does not need to be able to stand on its own if not wrapped around your body, but it should hold its form and should be able to be pinned to a wall and maintain the geometry of your body position). In designing and building your RiverBody, use the following criteria: Remove no material from the paper sheets—you may cut and fold, but do not cut away unless this is essential in some individual area. All folds and all cuts must be straight lines—no curves. Try to keep the surface planes of your project as flat planes as much as possible, rather than as curving surfaces, though some amount of curvature in the paper is expected and can be used to good advantage in certain cases. Holes and perforations should be made as straight cuts with paper folded away. In general, again design your cuts and folds to favor long, directional actions intended to follow or reinforce the environmental flows (light, wind, water) you will expect to act upon the RiverBody and your body position. You may use glue this time if necessary or useful, but you should mainly use mechanical fasteners such as the paper itself, or sewing with needle and thread. You will probably need to use multiple layers and reinforcements in many areas, and you will need to fold and create stiffeners to create the necessary form and structural integrity of the RiverBody. Use these materials and methods to make your body position comfortable and safe in the following environmental conditions:

 

5. Your designed body position is resides in its designated section of the river, oriented to the current water flow at each tidal condition, and at rushing flood and gentle flow conditions.

 

 

6. It is 10AM on September 21 and the skies are clear. There is a fresh wind of 20 KM  per hour, in the prevailing wind direction at your designated point in the river.

 

 

7. The relatively low southeastern morning sun is intense. You want some sunlight to warm your body, but you will need to protect yourself from between 30% to 70% of the morning sun—your choice, depending on whether you grew up on a southern beach or on a northern mountain.

8. Your view is important, but with the intense sun, wind, and water flow you will need to baffle and shade your eyes.

 

9. There will be cheers and human sounds and machinery sounds arriving from the closest banks, and you will want to direct and funnel these sounds toward your nearest ear if these are welcome in your section of the river, or away from your ear if these are unwelcome in your designated place in the river.

 

10. It is difficult to breathe in a strong headwind, and the better smells on the river tend to arrive off the ocean or from nearby trees and grasses, so you will also want to thoughtfully baffle and direct airflow surrounding your nose position.

 

11. It is not intended that the RiverBody will cover your entire body. It should be strategically added to your body as a partial wrapper or shield as necessary to temper your body’s environment in its particular position and conditions—to protect, add comfort, and to enhance and focus your senses. It is not intended to be a floatation device, as you are already comfortable and at home in the river.

 

12. Photograph your folded paper components at each important stage in their making—against a white background. This recording of the construction sequence will be used in the making of your photomontage series.

 

13. Bring your folded paper RiverBody, along with your white painter’s coveralls and hood, safety pins and other listed materials to another photo session on Friday.

 

14. You will take your positions in the wind tunnel water flows again, for testing and photographic recording. The environmental flows and impacts on your body position will then be compared in the photo sequences of your designed body position pre- and post-RiverBody.

 

Tools and Materials for each section to have  present and ready for Thursday and Friday test and documentation sessions:

∑ Digital Camera and tripod

∑ Clear package tape, one roll

∑ Blue painter’s tape, one roll, 1/2” wide or similar

∑ Prepared geometry apparatus and backdrops

 

Project Tools and Materials expected to be needed for each individual:

∑ Good quality, heavy drawing paper, large sheets or rolls

∑ Bring the same prepared and beribboned white painter’s coverall and hood

∑ One box of safety pins

∑ Sharpie permanent markers: 1 black, 1 red

∑ White tape, one roll

∑ Heavy black thread: one spool with a lot of thread

∑ Lightweight, black ribbon that will flutter in wind: one long roll

∑ Knife and scissors

∑ Eagle drawing pencil

∑ Clear safety glasses

∑ 25’ x1” measuring tape

∑ Black electrical tape, one roll

 

 

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