This model deals with looking at a solid object and not necessarily knowing what you are looking at. Being in awe of something yet also remaining curious about exactly why you find something appealing is spoken about in the theory of the sublime and remains important to my thoughts during these current model making sessions.
You can only see the insides, you cannot see the detail, you just gain a glimpse of what is happening or has happened within the box previously. As you explore the box, elements and stories begin to reveal themselves. The stories in this instance are about the materiality of the Stanley Dock site, the details and the signage within and around the warehouse units. As you explore the box, you gain a sense of the aesthetics on site, without ever having been there yet you do not know the scale and magnitude of what is actually there. When the box is empty you have a full set of imagery displaying the reality as well as an empty void that leaves you wondering what other information the site has to offer.
The acrylic box houses the information, as you look at the box you focus more on the interior, neglecting the physicality of the transparent material, yet as the exploration continues the insides and outsides become separate, and offer their own meanings.
The box as an empty void, a solid mass and the combination of both...
...the box being expanded...
...and the box is fully expanded with all the materiality of the site being revealed.
I feel this model is successful in my explorations of the site and the final artifact model I will produce over the next month or so. I will take forward the ideas of representing the reality of the site but I think it is necessary to also display other levels to the site - how is it connected to the city, what are the feelings one has on site, what are the vital historically events that have happened on or close to the site etc etc.
More models to follow...
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