tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61389457185659840082023-11-15T22:18:39.151-08:00The NummulosphereNew work by Hayden Prujean and Carlos Wedde.
Toi Poneke 4-26 Sept
Previous posts from Deep sea Discomedusae
at Blue Oyster 2012
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-34027539360244576722015-09-13T01:24:00.001-07:002015-09-13T01:24:44.394-07:00The book of the show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some drawings done for the booklet for the show, named " implosion" . Some back story as well as other pieces of ephemera and writing. A fun read...I hope.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-12119572199736297352015-09-11T14:18:00.001-07:002015-09-11T14:18:24.625-07:00Those corals and other stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Pic from the install with those cyclopean corals in the foreground and some other stuff going on. Reading the nummulosphere along with H.P lovecrafts "Call of Cthulhu " started off the idea of making the sedimentary island in the foreground, in the end we called it R'leh after Lovecrafts ancient submerged city but in the weird taxonomy of the show it could be a number of things. Thanks to Sam for sticking all the spikes on..</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-33850287008465352722015-09-05T00:22:00.000-07:002015-09-05T00:22:05.753-07:00Shows up..😬Shows up , I thought I'd share this slightly obscure install photo, x marks the spot me hearties!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-12792840505639074972015-08-29T18:13:00.002-07:002015-08-29T18:14:52.564-07:00Getting there now..last day before we go into the gallery. Just testing out water flume, Hayden working on acrylic and led stuff..looking foward to getting there now..<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-58581809581510034472015-08-15T01:19:00.001-07:002015-08-15T01:19:36.393-07:00Making the nummulosphere<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Randolf Kirkpatrick may have imagined all the rock in the world came from the sea, but I started making my nummulosphere like a coracle. There has been an excessive amount of time spent ripping laminates for this work and the log flume one also. I used tawa, which bends really nicely.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-75000312210846270902015-08-07T14:33:00.002-07:002015-08-07T14:33:46.971-07:00Log flume model<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Clamping got underway on this construction a couple of months ago, still going on this one, adding laminates. It's for a work based on designs by Victor schauberger who built log flumes, and other devices which may have worked but are now thought of as pseudo-science.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-84705529496236733372015-08-05T14:11:00.003-07:002015-08-05T14:11:36.934-07:00Water testing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In our previous show, Deep Sea Discomedusae (see below...) we d always intended to do more works which explored pseudo scientific observations , which is in part what's been added to the new show. Observations around water and its movements have played a big part in this. This is an early test of a water pump for a new work in the show. Pretty basic really..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-35195531769828281582015-08-04T02:01:00.000-07:002015-08-04T02:01:25.282-07:00Cyclopean corals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While I don't want to show too much of what's been put together for this show. .These peculiar castings I found really fun to make, although that may seem abit odd.. It takes abit of work to get that goopey sedimentary look just right however! Imagine what some one else observed and then try and make that and you will likely end up with something completely different from anything anyone thought. Some obsession was involved in doing these anyhow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-16455506843889117782015-07-30T23:34:00.000-07:002015-07-30T23:34:01.401-07:00The aquatic sediments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been some months working on this show, early on we were pleased to come across the work of Randolf Kirkpatrick and his book the nummulosphere which the title of the show comes from. One of the interesting things about Randolf was his unswerving monomania in regard of his obsession with the unlikely theory he held regarding the Origen of the earths crust. This image depicts this cyclopean obsession. I'm hoping to complete a booklet to go with the show which features some of these drawings and other writings around pseudo science, water, ontological origins and that sort of thing..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-25315691712919867362012-10-04T19:59:00.000-07:002012-10-04T19:59:03.452-07:00The eternal cycle...Bit of a review of the show here..<br />
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After packing the car to the roof and heading south, to Dunedin we arrived at the node....of uncertainty - well one of them, utilizing our studies of maritime history and Rene' Descartes assembling our show in a busy Three days. Thanks to all! More to follow..</div>
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I thought this old advertisement found in a scuba diving magazine from 1972 captured an appeal to some version of a bold pioneering spirit which has been associated with "getting into the deep end" for sometime. The imagination of countless young men intent on finding their way to the unknown reaches of the sea and back has been sparked by the possibility of being able to go it alone.<br />
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This desire for independence and adventure seems admirable, and appears to be a hard-wired human instinct, of testing oneself against the elements and emerging triumphant. Interestingly the gentleman in this advertisement is not sporting a Mo' and appears submerged in the infinite void almost up to his knees. The ad itself refers to the fact that the man has made the wetsuit he is wearing himself, but the thrill of going it alone is evident.<br />
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A few night time dashes to the studio yielded this wobbily shape. I've always found the demolding process an exciting part of studio work.<br />
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Statistical phylogenetic analysis of 111 5.85 and partial –
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I was talking with a friend about a piece of writing from Moby Dick I'd read the day before. The chapter involves the narrator describing his experience of climbing to the top of the masthead and taking watch there for some duration of time, perched on top of a couple of planks, whale spotting. It then moves on to some particulars of developments in the masthead - the invention of the "crows nest" and various comforts which furnished this, a little seat, a tot of whiskey, a blanket.<br />
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It then introduces the general character of dreamy young sailors lost in "Platonic reveries" up on this perch, neglecting their duties and lulled by the "cadence of the waves" these characters are set out as tragic protagonists in the melodrama of the last two paragraphs as the story almost shies away from comfortable developments and plunges headlong into a rhetorical and precarious closing two paragraphs.<br />
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There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on thee, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at midday, in the fairest weather, with one half throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, you pantheists! "<br />
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My friend had had some experience climbing to the top of a masthead while out sailing and described to me his experience of ascending a mast to do some sort of repair, and being unaware of his surroundings until his task was completed, only then looking down and becoming overcome with the vertigo of his situation. Lucky for him this is unlike the unfortunate dreamers lulled into a false sense of security in the passage above, whose precarious grip within their physical environment is a metaphor of the peril their "soul" itself is in.<br />
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I am not sure what the author, Herman Melville's position on pantheism is; but pantheism is defined as the general belief that the universe (or nature) and god (divinity) are identical. The idea that to even momentarily forget your precarious separation from the sea, as you balance upon the masthead is to risk oblivion - this is the central melodrama of this piece of writing, its sense of urgency and depth. In reality, perhaps most of us find it very difficult to get knocked off our perch, and are perpetually longing to connect with nature, to give up resolve, the minute we do manage it we want to get back on our perch though...<br />
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Immersion in the world has many other expressions, perhaps less biblical or theologic- like surfing, or scuba diving. These seem like a more banal modern equivalent compared to the above text. Perhaps we no longer need to know what our place in the greater scheme of things is.<br />
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During the lead up to this show it seemed important to do some background reading, particularly epic tales of seafaring. There's a great many tales out there of solitary adventurers achieving feats of nautical navigation and confronting biblical scale challenges to their mortal selves. For this sort of thing you can't go past "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. I'd read a graphic comic adaptation years ago from a series of classics illustrated- a glossy run of painterly quality prints done in the late 80's when the idea of the graphic novel as "a legitimate art-form" sprang to life and got heavily capitalised. Its taken 25 years but I have to say the original read is a whole different kettle of fish.<br />
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While there is a certain amount of "business" in it - waxing lyrical about chowder, jumping into bed with "savage harpooners", taxonomies of leviathan and so forth - its the grandeur of the language that never fails to impress. The frontiers that are being explored are vast and deep. I haven't actually got to the end of the book yet but its certain to conclude with epic tragedy and the folly of man.<br />
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The difficulties faced getting around the world seem considerably less these days, it is however more difficult to find whales. Of course much of the development of seafaring technology has come not from the fact that we like soap and lamps but actually because we like to fight. In the 16th century war and the necessity to have as many cannons as possible on your boat gave rise to the development of The Galleon. The Wassa was a Swedish warship built in 1628 to bolster the glory of the then rapidly expanding Swedish empire. It wasn't quite a galleon but neither was it a Carrack. Five such ships were commissioned by the King Gustavus Adolphus, and The Wassa was the first off the dock. In August 1628 it set forth on its maiden voyage, sailing out of Stockholm harbour and about 2 km into its journey the Wassa capsised and<br />
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Having chosen to create an exhibit which allies itself to "The era of the Nautical exploration of the ocean", the influence of being amongst such a mass of antiquities was overwhelming. The way in which some items, generally usefull things or commonplace objects ( Perhaps from a union steamship boat "touching" cargo at a port ) - items essentially trivial and ubiquitous become something else, they seem something more influential and easily charged with displaced sentimentality.<br />
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Two more attempts at uncertainty, with and without oceanic currents.<br />
This time connecting dunedin, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, the great pacific trash vortex (line) and the mariana trench through the medium of spatial extrapolation of the blue oyster dark side. Predominantly the areas falling between are abyssal plains. hadron.prunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02442796745189290781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-23446586828174661612012-04-08T15:40:00.000-07:002012-04-08T15:40:35.376-07:00Charting the Pacific<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ephermeral macro/micro transposition of relative coodinates betwixt said Dunedin basement and the point of uncertainty. (Early attempt)hadron.prunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02442796745189290781noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138945718565984008.post-76867087603828915392012-04-06T22:23:00.000-07:002012-04-07T00:29:34.576-07:00Getting deep right at the start??<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"What might touching lead to? This light and tentative verb anticipates the many stronger acts of connection we might find in a thesaurus of settlement: to touch, to caress, to infect, to cheat, to improve, to confiscate, to madden, to overwhelm. But in the nautical instance, touching for cargo is soon followed by the carriage and dis-embarkation of passengers who are coming ashore to stay, and they make a landing place or beachhead from which other landings, other exchanges will follow. The landing place is neither the beach of first contact nor the strand of a settled region, but a middle ground enlarged and transformed by traffic coming across it each way. " </div>
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From "The Settler's Plot" Alex Calder</div>
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