Spatial Design
Week 3 & 4, Mobile

During my week in Japan I focused on the form of a person bowing.
Regretfully, I didn't get any film or sequential photographs of bowing,
so my representation of the movement is based on observation.





The top series of images is a view of the person from the side. The
second is the front, and bottom focuses on the shoulder and arm from the
side. Next I decided to build an interpretation of the bowing movement.
I find the pivoting of the body during bowing fascinating. One pivots
from the hip, and then because the arm is more or less kept straight, you
have interesting movement of the arms against the body. I thought a
mobile would be able to represent the object honestly.

I settled on sculpture wire, and went to work. Regretfully the
connections I made to connect the pieces did not pivot. My work ended
up being closer to a sculpture than a mobile, it was more or less frozen
in place.



I continued to develop this project for intro phys comp.

-- Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:24 -0400

Copyright © 1996-2009 Alexander Reeder
All rights reserved unless otherwise noted