Started with brown book – “you are one of a kind”
Pairing
Titling different common themes in the different areas
Taking the base of a scrapbook as the platform to present, conserve and relive these stationery points of home. Bounded by the 4 sides of the square the images are laid out within the constraints of the 297x297mm page spread. Playing on the idea of a family tree/photo album and how this is a place where memories are captured through a snippet in time, and following a scrapbooking layout to emphasis the growing and ever changing aspects of the 2 spaces. So, even though they are connected through these visual aspects at this point in time, as time proceeds their connection will change but it will still remain.
Line
Taking the line that divides 2 different materials, 2 different surfaces, 2 different components and forms a connection between. 2 different spaces and locations that I have decided to call city and country for the duration of my project with the goal to form larger connections between myself and these spaces that I call home. Country can be viewed as a sand base littered with random clumps of grass, fallen leaves and hollows left behind from the past precipitation. On the other side of a concrete garden sleeper we can see a similar pattern of grass growing up between the impacted gravel that outlines the entrance and exit of the property through a 150 mitre long driveway. With materials and themes of brick, grass, leaves, sand, rain, change, and seeds being identified in this line image.
Down the centre of the page a boundary line is drawn, creating a divide, a discontinue between the country and the city. To show transition from one location to another through the use of concrete, gravel, and dirt we progress to the city.
Similar to the build structures that make up a city this image captures this structure and perfection through the use of camera angle and obscuring a 3 dimensional line into a 2 dimensional one. Focusing on the crisp line between the walked footpath on the side of the road and the line this makes in connection to the road. The tar seal of the road gives way for nothing, no grass, no weeds, nothing can make it move. Unchanged by the weather this surface is made to withstand all the city has to throw at it. Paint sprayed on to the road through a stencil, crisp outlines further extenuating the NO in no parking. Held together by concrete the bricks that line the edge of the road create a step up from one tar sealed surface to another. A differentiation between the driven and the walked paths only visible through the concrete brick step, a further hint that the foot traffic and the driven traffic in the city are at a high velocity.
Boundary
To understand what each of these spaces have in common and what differentiates the country from the city and vice versa we must first change our perspective and ground ourselves to the space that we are in. Through ground angles and a travelling long distance image we are able to see how these “completely different spaces” have a lot more in common than originally thought. A low angle of a gravel driveway, filled with dirt and sand can be seen in the foreground. Through the lifting of your eyes the view begins to change. Traveling down a concrete sleeper that lines the front of the farm shed a tractor, grass and even live animals can be seen. Caged behind a wooden gate more hills and trees continue into the distance. Raw and unrefined the country remains alive and every changing through the growth and energy each season brings.
Across the ditch between the 2 pages bound by the spiral 10 point spine the country reaches out to the city, through the drain we begin to see what it is like on the other side of the ditch.
Concrete brick after concrete brick, end to end they link off into the distance. Followed closely by the paint of the broken yellow line and the glass façade of the buildings. 3 running lines turns into 4, and then 5 with the inclusion of footpath and road. Vanishing off into a distant point the buildings continue along these lines too. Lights illuminate the lines of the road, path and buildings but not enough to break their perfection. Cars line the streets, one by one they come and go as if like magic a gap is never left.
Trace
The sun dances through the city and the built structure frame and glass inserts. Projecting light and pattern onto the polished concrete floor inside. Browns, oranges, reds, greys, blues , blacks and whites can be seen as the light hits the floor. Path and lines are shown through the parts of the lights path that are blocked, these lines creating a connection between the space inside and the space outside of the building through the projection of light. Light, so delicate, so easily lost in a second as the weather changes the tracks disappear. Temporal in nature.
Through a segmented image our eyes travel across the page and on to the second page of the spread. Indents and shadows are highlighted through the use of metallic pain pen to replace these from the original images.
Hollowed out tracks left behind from a vehicle that once drove over the gravel surface that makes up the driveway to my country home. Shadows line the walls of these indents, layering, depth the gravel shows off another shape. Shadows of trees cover the tyre tracks and the sunlight peeps through the gaps in the leaves. Temporal and delicate, these tracks can be washed away in any moment. From the weather, weight or even another living thing. A moment in time so delicate and so raw captured on camera as how it sat at one second in time.
View
| Country | City |
| Trees Grass Fence Animals Flowers Water Sunrise Sprinkler Shed Stones Natural Colourful | Concrete windows Building Sky Scraper Balcony Deck Outdoors Neighbours Fake Artificial Grey |
Window
| City | Country |
| Internal Sunset Clouds Buildings 11 floors up Chalk Internal Decoration Blinds | Trees Nature Sky Curtains Ground Floor Bird Fly screen Silver |
Collection
- Different materials
- Different material properties
- Square corners, squares, rectangle
- Foam board
- MDF
- Bulsa wood
- Black double board card
- Clear plastic
- Glue
- Ink, colour and black
Path
| City | Staircase between Lorne street and art gallery |
| Stairs Rails Tiles Handrails Screws Concrete Grout | Up Ascending Lighting Glass Building |
Built/ Construct
| Country | |
| Driveway Leaves Rust Pipes Construct Wood Plywood Tin Dented | Bushes Edging Exit Gravel Shed Grass Stones Dust |
Sketches
- Collection of detailed sketches
- Sketches of details
- Connection of windowsills
- Connections of different materials
- Connections of the same materials
- Abstracted sketches of tracks and forms
Natural Boundaries
| Country | Leaf vein structure |
| Pattern Structure Floating Loose Fluid | Examples of fall away natural boundaries Detailed print unique fingerprint city grid lines of connection between city and country |
Uniform un-uniform
| Country | Stick light and shadow |
| Structure Light Shadow | Something that stands out from where it is supposed to be uniform but un uniform |
City grid site map
| Country | City |
| Grid Structure Roads/paths/walkways | Cityscape block city grid |
Track to somewhere
| Country | Edge stop track to somewhere tyre tracks |
Combination
| Living Natural Dirt Perishable Mud Nature Alive compress | Rock pile hard wall non-perishable stacked solid grey stones porous |
Displacement
| Moss Dirt Mud Grass Clover Leaves Three White Block Brown Line Yellow green | Grit sand seeds stones dirt black dark orange brown grey veins |
City and country tack upscaling and down scaling comparisons
| Maps home City Surrounding roads Paths Tracks driveways | 1:50 1:100 1:500 |
| Auckland | Gallery |
| Glass/concrete Structure Processed materials “perfect” Not perishable Heavily populated by people Centralised surrounded by everything rigid | Highlight artworks/works grid white walls order square box “perfect” strategic/thoughtful layout Clean/crisp display/dont touch |
| Whangarei | Paddock |
| Wiggly lines Grass/animals/trees/bushes Loose layout “imperfect” Perishables Natural materials Isolated Heaps of space Heavily populated by animals | Dissaray paddock no room unstructured weather weathering no walls srrounded by fences messy/”dirty” open spaces fluid layout open spaces |
No words- continuing
| Shed wall | Shed wall and door corner |
| Track, track horizontal going off into the distance | High angle looking down of track in sand |
| Up close leaf vein structure in comparison to my finger | Further away leaf structure of whole leaf |
| Dying leaf vein structure, dense | Dying vein structure thinned |
| End of the brick path breaking away | Edge of the brick sand path |
End of brown book
Georgia Christina Grace 