Session 1 – topography

In my own studio work I am very interested in the relationship between 2D and 3D. When I first visited St. Mary’s I showed some of my own images and we decided to look at this relationship during our project.  So the question became how to make work that looks at this in the context of this project, as in, communicating mostly over the internet.

The fact that the class and myself are based in different locations interested me, so I took so screen grabs of Google Maps showing my location and the location of the school.  I was also able to show the class when I was working from through the webcam on my computer.

Taking the theme of the Solar System, and having already looked at google maps I started to research topographic images, how we can draw a 3D landscape in a 2D fashion.  I though we could make our own topographic drawings of imagined alien landscape.

To develop this idea further we transferred the images onto templates for platonic solids and cut them out to form 3d shapes with topographic drawings inscribed on the surface.

 

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