reds sticks !

Playing with the name again...... back to red sticks I'm afraid.  Tried calling it 'converge' as it aloods to what is optically occuring as you walk through the space, but after sitting with this title it sounds rather wh..ky so gone back to red sticks, after all it what they are!  Design Development's going very well, played with placement alongside input from the Verge team and come up with two sweaping arcs that discect the main path from subway to China Town.  Will be updating visuals in new blog posting asap so that those who love to comment on our madness can post feed back.

Thanks for the feedback Peter, yes the concept red sticks have been heavily inspired by the wall created by the blue team, which I thought fabulous.  The way the students wall concept runs through and activates the space was very graceful, indeed its that particular element I have been trying to develop further.  The randomness of the sticks in placement and varying angles, visually breaks ups the actual space; foreground and background whilst also activating the air mass above the ground that draws greater attention to volume one transits through.  On initial discussions with Simone and Sebastian, we agreed for the need to attempt to somehow screen off the main road, reducing or loosening the visual impact of the urban backdrop to the space in the hope that this will make the park more intimate.  Through the placement of brightly painted red poles, devised to transit from exit of the subway tunnel and sweeping up and around the incline to the road, this vista will be interjected by the vibrant red that attempts to redefine focus back away from the crash barrier edge of the park back into the centre.

Working with driver site::unseen, I have become slightly obsessed with creating scenarios where subtlety and discovery become woven into the artworks.  With the red sticks, the pole is divided individually into painted and silver sections, that at only one spot on the park (focal point) will all the combined silver segments join to form a consistent sweep, the mind interpolating the gaps between.  On transiting past this focal point the pattern will break down into randomness.  The sequence of images to follow attempts to visually portray this mechanism.....starting from this focal point



...as you transit the space the wave pattern breaks down....


... the sweep of the poles also converges changing the relationship of the intervention with the foreground and background....

with passage through the park the randomness of the sticks will suddenly but quietly jumps out only to be lost, will you stop and reverse? The artwork intervention acts as a mechanism for us to discover spatial interaction; how we transit the space with varying levels of awareness to subtleties to the experience.  Last image for red sticks being a plan view.  If this concept becomes selected for further development will begin to look more carefully how the placement dissects the park and will attempt to portray that more visually with images taken from the site.


On a practical level, I have looked into use of steel pre-galvanised square tube 100x100x3mm that will be hand painted after installation to achieve optical effect.  The product is light in comparison to old energex power poles, easier engineer, handle and install and smaller foundation holes would be required.  With this idea the greater the number of poles the stronger the concept will translate.