Sarah Molony

Molony's work fascinates me, she knits organs and the human skeleton. I think it is most appropriate to include on my blog as it inspires me for my simulation project. The organs are simulated by the use of materials that are quite clearly not the ones the organs are made of originally.

Post Tutorial

so after my tutorial today i feel a bit more confident about my outcome.

I think that i am going to do a pumping heart but make it out of material and possibly make it pump!

i could then also make a piece of work that simulates the heart. and provokes the feeling of disgust and or even to make the viewing compelling.

Simulating experience

Idea:

There are machine embroidered boxes that simulate inside human organs.

Perhaps in perspex boxes, and on display so that you can look down into them.

Using wool, string, fabric and threads etc

Watch this space!

Machine Emboidery art

As i have chosen to try machine embroidery i thought i should look to other artists that use the same method.

Bernie Leahy

He says that his art is all about capturing fleeting moments of gesture and expression. It begins with paper, ink and pen and then moving onto stitch. He only uses hand embroidery and basic machine embroidery.

Andrea Butler

Butler starts off with drawings and then creates three dimensional sculptures that demonstrate the human body.

"This three dimensional work evolved from exploration into the trans formative power of drawing, upon the human body and spirit.

It also reflects my preoccupation with protection, more specifically how the corporeal body acts as a protective covering around the ethereal self.

A two dimensional ink drawing recording the musculature of the human form has been redrawn to create a more sculptural image of the interior of the body and then developed into a textile form.

Nylon thread and pins were used as three dimensional lines while metal shim, hand felted wool and silk provided contrasting materials on which to make marks. The tensile structure references the tension of the muscles of the human body while the surface striations evoke creases on skin. the protective wrapping encloses an imagined internal site. where the spirit resides and dreams. a boned and laced aperture implies the splitting of membrane, suggesting the release of the spirit from its physical boundary. "

eureka!

Whilst trying to sleep last night i could feel my heart beating. And i thought about what it would be like in a human heart.

People in general get attached and love material things and so i think an installation would be good for this new project.

I was thinking about making a peice you can walk through that makes you feel like you were in a heart.

I also think that using textiles and embroidery i could make it really effective and padded using wodding.

TBC

Old Boy 2003

Ive been left mentally scared after watching old boy... it really messed with my head!

Old Boy

its the whole stuck in one place for 15 years against your will that struck me the hardest - that and when there was teeth being yanked out!

Amanda Hislop is a textile artist and painter from Oxon, UK. And i have included her in my blog as her work does influence my ideas for this project of simulation. The way i see it is that she recreates and imitates the scenery but instead of just taking a photographs she recreates the memories through textiles and i would love to come out of my comfort zone and experiment by doing some textile art.

Simulation

Simulation is not new. It has been with us for as long as there has been education. At its core, simulation requires no other technology than the ability to think. Most simulations take place entirely in the mind, via mental what-ifs: A lawyer plays through an upcoming trial in his head. A skier visualizes herself slaloming down the course.
Our best teachers have always used mental simulations with their students, as when they announce, "What if the South had won the Civil War?" or "Imagine if penicillin was never invented." It requires nothing more than a teacher who can think through the possibilities with students and help them envisage possible consequences and outcomes. Computers help by overlaying a lot of the details, but simulation always comes back to a person asking, "What if?"

Simulation helps us understand complex issues. This is particularly true of complicated computer-model simulation. Today, we can model amazingly complex behaviors while providing relatively simple inputs and clear sensual outputs. With these simulations, students learn about a complicated thing (say, an airplane), system (the weather) or behavior (management), and, without risk of damaging anything or getting hurt themselves, make a wide variety of assumptions and changes and see the results.

Simulation is real-world experience. Professional simulations are used every day in just about every profession: City planners simulate all the factors that make a metropolis thrive or die. Military planners simulate conditions, battles, and equipment. Traders simulate financial markets. Weather forecasters simulate daily and long-term climate. Doctors simulate the effects of drugs, transplants, and other interventions. Ecologists simulate changes in the environment. Engineers simulate the effects of natural and artificial forces on buildings and bridges. Computer-network engineers simulate conditions on the Internet. Scientists use simulations continually

Simulation

After the informal group crit

So after the informal group crit, as i was talking to the group about my ideas i found that ideas were flowing into my head!

As previously posted - i want to concentrate on creating a simulating experience on bringing back the dead. but i dont want to go along the machine and contraption method.

—I want to go with more a personal experience

—A few years after my Granma died, I was in my room and I turned around and I spelt her smell.

—Everyone and every family or house has their own individual smell. And I want to create a piece of art that imitates the captured smells of the people I miss because I’m still waiting for the day that I smell Granma’s smell again. If only I could bottle it.

 

—I thought about who’s smells I would want to capture. Ideas were:

—Everyone who has died in my family… the trouble with this is I don’t know everyones smell of family that died before I was born

—Everyone who has died in my lifetime.

I would also label the bottles/ containers.

—I have been researching things that keep things in that could look visually exciting.

—I thought about jam jars

—Bottles

—‘vintage’ bottles

—Cork bottles

—Medicine bottles

—Swing top bottles