# 3

3D spatial, saatchi gallery

we've now moved on from vis com and have started to do 3D spatial design. my first impressions of it is that its actually quite fine arty as we have done so much drawing in the past 3 days already. unlike vis coms fast pace, we have been giving a 2 week long project, creating a 3D object from the information we've recorded whilst studying structures and objects that make up our environment.

on our first day we were asked to bring in a bunch of materials (mostly string) and were divided into groups of 6. we had to make an installation, representing where we've come from and how we got to chelsea. in our group we had people coming from belgium, turkey, scotland, and china so our string were directed all over the place. we decided to make chelsea into the messily, stacked/taped chairs to represent the busy, and creative place that we are all experiencing now, and that at these beginning stages, chelsea ways of working can be very confusing and somewhat scary. the different coloured string also represented different means of transport (flight, eurostar) and we also measured the exact distances of each country to chelsea.

we were then asked to fold up a huge a1 sheet of paper into 8 and draw sections of our map installation. when we unfolded it, we had to make sure that all of our drawings linked up together, creating a giant image comprised of different objects of different scales. a section of my drawing:

following on from that, we continued to explore 3D spaces with drawing, looking at words we were given. these included boundary, edge, line, junction. 

a visit to newspeak: british art now at the saatchi gallery introduced me to the work of richard wilson. his mirror like installation entitled 20:50 took up the entire lower ground floor. this piece is the only permanent installation the gallery has continuously shown in each of the gallerys values since 1991. made up of used sump oil and steel, this creates the illusion that the ground is a polished floor, as you can see the reflection of the ceiling in it. however, the room is simply flooded in oil. i was extremely impressed by this piece, and it was exciting to draw from too.