Design Museum - The Future is here : A new Industrial Revolution.

"We are in the midst of a transformation in the way we design, make and use the objects that we depend on. It is a transformation that will affect commerce, industry, and the way that we all live as profoundly as any previous Industrial Revolution."

This links to the subject of identity and how technology is replicating objects and resources which turn out exactly the same, having no difference. Losing a quality of uniqueness where nothing is hand made anymore, society very much so depend on industry.

Stuart Haygarth


I recently visited the Design Museum. One particular piece of work i was fixated by was Stuart Haygarth's piece called 'Twenty Twenty Chandelier'(a play on 20/20 vision, a phrase denoting perfect eyesight !)It consisted of  reused waste, old sunglasses turned into a decorative object that has another purpose being a chandelier. This made me think about how I could use his work as inspiration in thinking of ways I could reuse my own waste or a majority of consumers waste towards my own art. For example using clothing, or old items people do not want from shops, food stores,clothes stores,furniture etc and re using them as something else giving them a completely different purpose. 

 

 I did a continuous  line drawing of the chandelier looking only at the object and keeping my eyes off my paper. Ideas which cam to mind maybe reusing discarded materials, that become something with another identity and purpose for example this imaginative chandelier.

I then researched more into stuarts work and other materials he has used in creating an object with a certain purpose. The objects are normally collected in large quantities categorised and assembled in a way that transforms their meaning.

'My work is about giving banal and overlooked objects a new significance. '

Disposable 20005

Created from 416 disposable plastic wine glasses with a pink fluorescent light source. 

TIDE (2004)

The original Tide chandelier is part of a larger body of work based on the collection of ' man made' debris washed up on a specific stretch of Kent coastline. I have been collecting material over many years and the work is still in progress. The material collected is sorted and categorized and several individual pieces of work were produced.

thoughts: A collection of my own memorable objects that don't mean anything to me anymore. submerged into a whole new identity, by creating an object out of them.

 

Bouncing Vases.

Designed by Ron Arad 2000, this was produced as part of Arad's not made by hand, not made in China series, this early experiment in additive manufacturing is thought to be among the first commercial uses for 3D printing. I found this piece most intriguing as it was the left overs formed from the 3D printer. An object that doesn't have a purpose but could be used,giving it an identity rather than discarding it to waste. An idea i had of turning non biodegradable objects like plastic bags and using them as another product rather than for waste or being made into waste.

Beautiful feminine, curvaceous shapes almost symbolising  a figure?.

Some of my sketches of the vases are below.

Thoughts: Bones, another feature of a structured skeleton?

Outcome form using  3D design. very quick sketch getting all the aspects of shadow where the light hits the object the most.

Little miniature lamps.