- Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991
- A garden shed and contents blown up
Many of Cornelia Parker's artworks are ephemeral or 'site-specific', created for a single time and place. Cold Dark Matter; An Exploded View (1991) was such a work, in which Cornelia Parker had the British Army explode a garden shed, and the fragments were suspended in the air around a single source of illumination casting shadows of the shattered pieces on the walls.
The idea of suspending objects and casting shadows from them could have potential behind the idea. The depth that could come from which objects and how you cast the shadows could be very striking, like the exploding shed which is one of Cornelia's most known piece.
The idea of suspending objects and casting shadows from them could have potential behind the idea. The depth that could come from which objects and how you cast the shadows could be very striking, like the exploding shed which is one of Cornelia's most known piece.
- Alter Ego, 2004
- Silver plated objects, wire
Cornelia Parker is a London-based sculptor and installation artist. Her work is regarded internationally for its complex, darkly humorous, ironic style.
From looking into Cornelia's work, I found her shed project the most inspirational, with the idea of blowing up the shed is very extravagant and exciting, and then creating the shadows from it, is visually capturing. I can expect when in personal with the installation that it can create such an intriguing atmosphere.
Brass Art is another artist which projects shadows from objects like Cornelia above. This piece is called Still Life No.1, which used 3D objects in acrylic polymer, light source, table in black box environment.
Brass Art explore the potential of combining old and new media through strategies of proto-cinematic optical illusion and cutting edge digital technologies.
Looming figures and monstrous fusions invoke an immediate affiliation with the nineteenth century phantasmagoria. A simple, travelling light source casts a slowly spinning of shadows around the walls and ceilings. The piece, is a table bearing an arrangement of museum specimens, tiny figurines and cellophane -their varying opacities against the bare bulb producing the silhouettes and glimmers which create the play of forms.
From seeing this at an exhibition, I found the overall idea and concept of the work very influential again with the concept of projecting shadows from objects. Combining this idea of objects and shadows could help me lead towards a similar concept for my own final piece.
When thinking about different ways of experimenting with shadows without jumping straight to the end, I thought about starting from the very beginning; with shadow prints/ photograms. Where best place to start with shadows than the beginning of photography, experimenting with these can start me off with an example of shadows, shadows from objects rather than people. Here is my link to the experiment:
From looking into Cornelia's work, I found her shed project the most inspirational, with the idea of blowing up the shed is very extravagant and exciting, and then creating the shadows from it, is visually capturing. I can expect when in personal with the installation that it can create such an intriguing atmosphere.
Brass Art is another artist which projects shadows from objects like Cornelia above. This piece is called Still Life No.1, which used 3D objects in acrylic polymer, light source, table in black box environment.
Brass Art explore the potential of combining old and new media through strategies of proto-cinematic optical illusion and cutting edge digital technologies.
Looming figures and monstrous fusions invoke an immediate affiliation with the nineteenth century phantasmagoria. A simple, travelling light source casts a slowly spinning of shadows around the walls and ceilings. The piece, is a table bearing an arrangement of museum specimens, tiny figurines and cellophane -their varying opacities against the bare bulb producing the silhouettes and glimmers which create the play of forms.
From seeing this at an exhibition, I found the overall idea and concept of the work very influential again with the concept of projecting shadows from objects. Combining this idea of objects and shadows could help me lead towards a similar concept for my own final piece.
When thinking about different ways of experimenting with shadows without jumping straight to the end, I thought about starting from the very beginning; with shadow prints/ photograms. Where best place to start with shadows than the beginning of photography, experimenting with these can start me off with an example of shadows, shadows from objects rather than people. Here is my link to the experiment:
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