June 28, 2007: Trash shadow

Flint · 06-28-2007, 04:25 PM

No, really. If the sculpture that casts the shadow had a visual meaning of it's own, different from the shadow. That would be really tricky.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-28-2007, 04:34 PM

That's what the thread is about. I'm not surprised you didn't know that.

Flint · 06-28-2007, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

... If the sculpture that casts the shadow had a visual meaning of it's own, different from the shadow. That would be really tricky.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's what the thread is about. I'm not surprised you didn't know that.

A pile of trash is pretty visually flexible when you're aiming for a desired effect on the other side. So is a welded together mess of pots and pans, or whatever that is. These pieces have one subject. What I'm talking about is a piece with two distinct subjects, IE a statue of object A that casts a shadow of object B. What would complicate this is that the shadow is fixed (2-D) but people could look at the 3-D part from different angles.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-28-2007, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

A pile of trash is pretty visually flexible when you're aiming for a desired effect on the other side. So is a welded together mess of pots and pans, or whatever that is. These pieces have one subject. What I'm talking about is a piece with two distinct subjects, IE a statue of object A that casts a shadow of object B. What would complicate this is that the shadow is fixed (2-D) but people could look at the 3-D part from different angles.

A pile of trash with two seagulls is an identifiable sculpture. Being easy to create or "visually flexible" has no bearing on it. It's recognizable and casts a shadow of something completely different. If you want it to be a more defined sculpture, why don't you go make one and stop bothering the adults?

Happy Monkey · 06-28-2007, 06:14 PM

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A pile of trash with two seagulls is an identifiable sculpture.

More than the other ones, at least. They're all amorphous, but one has seagulls.

This reminds me of the digital sundial (check out #8).

xoxoxoBruce · 06-28-2007, 08:12 PM

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More than the other ones, at least. They're all amorphous, but one has seagulls.

Aren't all piles of trash amorphous at first glance? That was the point, they are supposed to appear as piles of trash and not hint at the shadow they would produce, even though they were carefully constructed like any other sculpture.

Happy Monkey · 06-29-2007, 11:31 AM

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Aren't all piles of trash amorphous at first glance?

I think that was Flint's point.

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