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Impressions
de Lumière - from an artist in residency at L'Arbre de Vie / Chateau de Blacons, France - 2007 - © Lloyd Godman
Construction
& installation of - LEAF
Impressions - Impressions de Lumière - 2007
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16
- 20 Aug 2007 - The first step was fabricating the leaf
shapes from thousands of newspaper pages. This involved
glue 5 or 6 layers of newspaper together and then gluing
each set of pages onto the next.
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The
process of gluing all the sheets together took several days
and many hours. During this time it brought back memories
of my first job as an apprentice electrician at the Otago
Daily Times News paper in Dunedin, New Zealand |
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I
developed a technique of gluing the paper so as to replicate
the textural cell like structure of a leaf and designed
the works so there were no colour images appearing on the
surface. |
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The
finished leaves comprised of one large leaf that would incorporate
the Carbon Obscura structure, and 6 progressively smaller
leaves. |
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21
Aug 2007 The newspaper leaf templates were completed and
transported to the gallery ready for installation on he
lawn the next day. |
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22
Aug 2007
The
morning was spent at the market sampling fresh foods, there
was a huge down pour of rain for several hours.
Later
in the afternoon, the weather cleared enough to begin installing
the news paper leaf shapes on the lawn outside. |
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There
is a connection in this technique to the the work PLANeT IV where a template was laid on the ground to grow an
image into the grass. The idea was first noted by Archimedes. |
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The
leaf shapes were arranges pointing towards the pergola structure
for the carbon work. |
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Stones
from the drive were laid on top of the newspaper forms to
weigh them down and also to form the rib structure of the
leafs. |
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Detail
of the stones laid on the paper leaves |
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Choosing
and arranging the stones I noticed there were two types.
Some stones were smooth and rounded, alluvial stones, perhaps
from the local Drome river. They reminded me of the stones
from the Clutha River from the Last
Rivers Song project of 1983-4.
The others had been through some form of quarrying process
and had been shattered and broken which reminded me of the
quarried rock from Blackhead - Secrets
from the Forgotten Tapu project - 1986 |
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23
Aug 2007
We
had a meeting to finalize the poster, press release which
took sometime as this all had to be translated to French.
Later in the afternoon, more stones were laid on the paper
leaves to complete the design. |
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The
afternoon saw the attack of the geese, who came to investigate
proceedings and took delight in walking all over the paper
leaves and also rearranging the stones. |
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View
with the Chateau behind. |
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View
from the window of the 4th floor of the Chateau. |
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View
from the window of the 4th floor of the Chateau.
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28
Aug
cut and pasted up some another 7 newspaper leaves - also
repaired the leaves on the grass that the geese had damaged.
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29
Aug - 2 Sept 2007
continued
to make more smaller leaves and finish off the other larger
leaves |
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3
Sept 2007
finished all
the newspaper leaves |
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28
Aug
cut and pasted up some another 7 newspaper leaves - also
repaired the leaves on the grass that the geese had damaged.
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29
Aug - 2 Sept 2007
continued
to make more smaller leaves and finish off the other larger
leaves |
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3
Sept 2007
finished all
the newspaper leaves |
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