Week 1 - Follow the Material

Discover - multiple stories and connections based on materials

Explore - theoretical and historical contexts for materials

Propose - speculative transformations and interventions

Apply - thinking and express this in a proposal for the Major Project detail design

Select - and instruct on applying and processing materials

Communicate - material narrative and design intent

To be inspired and discover new materials I went to the New Forest. Here I was surrounded by wildlife, different elements and plenty of greenery. I picked up leaves, bark, pine cones, ect. All inspired different parts of my work and helped me create figure 3. What I hadn’t realised is that under every step I took was 300 miles worth of fungi glowing through the Forrest. This is mycelium, it has more networks that our brain has neural pathways and works the same way.

‘That which matters about an object is its matter’ - Lange Bernt

Palimpsest : a material story

(palímpsēstos = "again" + "scrape")

Task 1

1. Strip Back - scrape off/ cut into/ paint over all, or part, of the drawn surface

2. Find - materials connected with the IMP

3. Overlay - the drawing with NEW materials

4. Reflect

1 - Strip Back

Stripping back a concrete column to see what's inside

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2- Find

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3 - Overlay

Adding materials found onto drawing

Creating more dimension with the materials to the drawing

Using the bark, leaves and acorn to go through the drawing

Adding levels to it

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4 - Reflection

When I peeled back layers from the concrete column I found many hidden aggregate materials, Some being: sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag and flint.

I wanted to add to the original structure by growing a new interior with more organic materials, I took to nature to inspire me. Finding bark, acorns, plants, moss and earth.

With these materials I made my flat A3 drawing into a 3D visual piece of abstract work. The plants are growing through the paper, some ripping it and some adding extra layers that are strengthening it.

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