Coe's apples

This was a mental exercise with a hint of Joseph Kosuth: ie. 3and 1 chairs.



Mine was more a 4 ways apple.



1- Hyper-real / Photoshop version on the wall.
2- Video montage with pretty lighting and just a slight mist of glistening water droplets.
3- Audio of the apple being eaten.

All 3 digitally captured/altered and rendered

4- is the actual rotting remnant of the first 3 in a museum display box.

Presentation was not the main concern here, just the idea to play with and ponder.

Mental Architecture 2

Vague, symmetrical
like the perfect memory
of a perfect face

or the easy calculations
of a virtual space
either way . . .
your choice

Mental architecture

Implied structure. In cyberspace and mental space who needs walls? At least we know the floor will always be in the same place?

lifeless

I can feel you but I can't touch you.

The nothing box

This is a nothing box.

There is nothing special about the box itself
It's just wood
Its empty . . .and not
There is something in it
You cannot see it
You cannot hold it
It has no color
It has no shape

It is sound
the sounds of my memories
maybe they are familiar to you

people react to the nothing box in the most peculiar ways

When it chirps, they are surprised
When it ticks, they hold it suspiciously
When it sounds like water, they hold to one ear like a shell at the ocean.
When it purrs, they cuddle it

There is nothing special about the box itself.
It is just wood.
It is empty . . .and not

Post residency re-cap

On the live-vellum -
the consensus is . . .







1) the sensual glowing screen of vellum should be made as a horizontal plane
2) to make it more accessible
3) to isolate the focus of the viewer (as they look down, the surrounding space disappears)
4) projecting on the same cloth it was shot on is poetic (death/re-animation/etc.) but frankly, it looks like shit.
5) the video is too slow now and probably needs a bit more side lighting to increase the shadows.
I'm working on the possibility of projecting from below and hiding the technology as much as possible.
Other than that . ..
It is still fascinating to watch.

update

Moon city

I have a stand for this . . . .
It is still fighting me but I will post it once I have tamed physics . . . .

My white cube

Much easier to design an installation when you have your own portable white cube.
(That's my little helper Edna in there)

just for fun

touch

I just learned a bit of Final Cut Pro and quick time


This is the diffusion test w/o the vellum:
I find this one a bit creepy . . .




Just hands - this was supposed to be about touch but seems to go way beyond
into issues of voyeurism surveillance, eroticism and sexual ambiguity . . .
Let me know what you think. . .

vague material

In my search for tangibility I found a vellum that feels like human skin.
Sensual and Creepy

So I brought it home and played with it for a bit.
Then I added to it a bit.
Then I played with it a bit more.


This is a vellum backing with maple leaves punched out of vellum and acetate glued to the surface.














This is what happens when it is lit from behind.
















This is what happens when it is lit from behind without the stupid florescent lights that are the bane of my creative existence!



I am really enjoying the translucent nature of the materials and am working on projecting video through the back.


More on that later . . .

Just a few on what I'm Makin'

This is my studio space!
Lot's of room but small windows and lot's of ventilation noise. And . . .oh yeah a huge pile of used photo equipment.

Follow this link to see some close-ups of what I'm makin'.

http://www.coelynn.com/aib/projects1.html