23 more life in 3D

 Ute was in the driving seat on Thursday and we continued with work on 3D around our ideas as well as the 'Cell' I had started in class last week I had started a model of the Cuban prisons that were close to a physical realisation of Bentham's Panopticon'


 I started with a flat piece that was painted and had rough representations of  windows:  


This was then roughly moulded to a semi-circle and secured to a base









A roof of painted paper was added











Some more experiments were carried out around the cell construction and how this might be realised.

With the isolation being shown via B/W and shadow 


Ute spoke about the sort of people who we might look at including architects who use 3D Models in their work(Richard Rogers and Alvar Aalto for example) along with designers like Philippe Starke (of lemon squeezer fame) .

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Also mentioned were the works by Artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg (see goat below)  who made 3d works in the case of Johns some of his most memorable works were encaustic collages of (for Americans controversial) flags.



Ute kindly signposted me to work by Langlands and Bell who in their work explore  systems that are deployed to facilitate and regulate our lives, including  prisons.

I have researched a little  for ideas around prison colour palates for the Langlands and Bell colours are largely around white but  I see many prisons are using pastel colours so this white is by no means uniform.

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