final plaster cube

01.02

SOLID / VOID

01.02

SOLID / VOID

Building off of the previous project, students were here asked to analyze the work of various influential modernist artists, and develop a stereotomic response to them. The opening analysis was captured in uninterupted scrolls of trace paper, entailing 99 diagrams in total. Upon being asked to interpret Theo van Doesburg's "Simultaneous Counter Composition" (1929) in three dimensions, I regrettably gravitated to the literal. Conceptually splitting the elements of the piece into five different layers, my composition was in essence a vertically extruded sculpture of the drawing. Most instructive in the process was the difficulty in refinement – so lacking in the finished piece that I heavily doubted both my design and representational abilities long after completion. The final 6 inch plaster cube remains in my bedroom to this day whenever I visit my hometown, a periodic reminder of brutish beginnings and the ceaseless journey of refinement.

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