Cloud Construction

I have been thinking a lot about what materials would work best for my project. Sara Rockinger used fiber to make the figures in her "In/Visible". Fiber worked really well for her piece but I think for mine, I would like to use a material that will absorb more color. The figures in her piece were very transparent.

Pillows are a possibility. They might absorb too much color though and cast too dark of a shadow unto the  background. But I could play around with the pillow stuffing. Also, I could use some normal pillows and some feather pillows. The different types of pillows may create a different effect.

















Light bulbs could be really cool. I liked the example of a past students work that involved light bulbs. This could get expensive though and I want my clouds to look as fluffy as possible.









Cotton balls could be fun to play around with, but if I use a small material it would be difficult to make my clouds really large. Also I it could be very hard to connect all the cotton balls together.

Video Projection

A few weeks ago, a friend used an iphone to take pictures of these very colorful clouds as we drove to a concert at Red Rocks. For my project, I would like to use film footage of clouds similar to the clouds in the pictures.  I plan on taking the same drive again at the same time of day to record the clouds with my digital camera.  I am hoping the video will be as colorful as the original pictures. I think the more colorful the film, the more impressive my piece will be. I want the clouds I construct to be absorbing a lot of color from the film as well as casting shadows onto the backdrop that the film will be projected on. I think finding this balance will be the hardest part of my project.

Re thinking scale

One of the most impressive parts of Sara Rockinger's "In/visible" is it's large scale. I am moving away from the idea of making a mini scene like David Hoffos' "Scene from the House Dream" this means I have to rethink what I want to project onto the clouds

I would like some of my clouds to be this fluffy, I think if I used cotton balls to create ones like these, then they would absorb light well and would create interesting shadows









I wonder if it would be possible to create something like this, RAINBOW CLOUDS

First Project

Inspirations- clouds, David Hoffos and Sara Rockinger's "In/Visible"

Clouds- I like the idea of projecting light onto white shapes. I would like to make a bunch of clouds, each out of a different material. Perspective Materials-cotton balls, tissue paper, paper towels, white cloth,

David Hoffos- I really liked the way he constructed scenes and I like the idea of having my project being contained in a small space. At this point  I don't think my scene will have as much details as his

Sara Rockinger's "In/Visible"- I randomly saw this piece while I was working. When I saw it all of my previous ideas for the first project went out  the window. This piece is very large. It consists of about six or eight white figures that are suspended from the ceiling. The figures were made out of some kind of transparent, cloth-like, white material. They were hanging in front of a large white wall. In front of the figures was a projector playing a video of farmers working a field on a sunny day. The figures absorbed some of the projected light and created shadows on the white screen. I really liked how the shadows effected the projected film

need to think about what i want to project, I don't think I want to do video. Maybe make the light source interactive. Like a flashlight or cell phone