UNTITLED PROJECT GLORY KUK UG3
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man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest sions which are its material.”
PERFECTIONISM
ABANDONMENT
VOID
DYSMORPHIA
SELF-HATRED
THE FIVE AGONIES
Cryosection through a male head
A project to create detailed sets of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. The male cadaver was encased and frozen in a gelatin and water mixture in order to stabilize the specimen for cutting. The specimen was then “cut” in the axial plane at 1 millimeter intervals.
THE VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT (1986-1995)
Cryosection through a male abdomen
THE HUMAN HEAD | CHANGES
CLARENCE SCHMIDT | MIRACLE ON THE MOUNTAIN (1940-1972)
After building a small waterproof cabin, he undertook a 30-year exploration of the house as an artistic medium. The house crawled up the mountainside with story after story of hubcaps, babydolls, beer cans and more, until it stretched seven levels high with 35 rooms, all connected with a multitude of galleries, porches, corridors, stairs or walkways.
The house is a statement of who he is and who he was, a house that will never be completed. “I began to collect things to give me comfort. A sort of womb. Somewhere to hide”.
STEPHEN WRIGHT | HOUSE OF DREAMS
PIXAR | SOUL (2020)
It is the appreciation of small things in life to brings us forward and feel moved. Lives don't boil down to some binary success or failure, but rather it's in the way each moment is lived, no matter how small, that gives all time on Earth meaning. Furthermore, the film's exploration of lost souls through 22's incapacitating pessimism touches on themes of self-worth, which producer Dana Murray describes as learning to love one's self.
Housed in from 1676 appeared so opulent that it was compared to none other than the Palace of Versailles. The hospital may have looked like a palace and almost a tourist attraction, but treatment of patients was hardly ideal, as shown in this etching of William Norris in 1814.
BETHLAM ROYAL HOSPITAL | LONDON
The face of the Sphinx can be directed to ‘stare’ at various points in the city. In response to the level of nervous energy in the Metropolis as a whole, the whole head can be jacked up or down.
HOTEL SPHINX | DELIRIOUS NEW YORK
Welfare (now Roosevelt) island is a long (about three kilometers), narrow (200 meters on average) island in the East River, more or less parallel to Manhattan. Originally the island was the site of hospitals and asylums – generally a storehouse for ‘undesirables’. A time when the island was entirely dedicated to the care of “the diseased, the criminal, the impoverished, and the otherwise undesirable of New York City.”
WELFARE ISLAND (1921 - 1973)
A historically rich structure of Welfare Island that is now in ruins.
RENWICK SMALLPOX HOSPITAL (1856-1950)
Cavaglieri provided a more detailed review of the Smallpox Hospital, which he stated, was “in a very bad state of disrepair.” The roof was beyond mending, the architect recommended that the collapsed wall on the west façade be shored with a new wall constructed of concrete masonry unit blocks and that the ironwork be removed from the structure’s balconies and stored inside the building. The concrete masonry unit wall still exists today. It is unclear, however, if any of the building’s original ironwork is still somewhere within the building’s core or if it was later disposed of.
RENWICK SMALLPOX HOSPITAL (1856-1950)
Collect all fallen architectural details like “cornices or tiles or similar decorative fragments or stone pieces or… plaques with lettering or decorative motifs” for further historic review.
RENWICK SMALLPOX HOSPITAL (1856-1950)
properly grade soil around the structures to help with water run-off and prevent further flooding board-up all broken windows to ensure rain water and debris not enter the structures shore and brace walls that show signs of collapse seal all roofs and clear gutters to prevent further flooding.
WELFARE ISLAND | CHANGES
RENWICK SMALLPOX HOSPITAL | CHANGES
Made over an eighteen-year period from 1980 to 1998, it presents a galaxy of forms and represents a fulfillment of Bontecou’s longstanding desire to create art that encompasses “as much of life as possible—no barriers—no boundaries—all freedom in every sense.”
LEE BONTECOU (b. 1931)
The small details in life get overlooked, hence the act of drawing itself acts as the appreciation of details, a drawing that will also serve as a diary of the journey.
ACT OF DRAWING AS A DIARY OF APPRECIATION
The earliest written accounts of what is now known as depression appeared in the second millennium B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. In these writings, depression was discussed as a spiritual rather than a physical condition. Like other mental illnesses, it was believed to be caused by demonic possession. Hippocrates, a Greek physician, suggested that depression (initially called "melancholia") was caused by four imbalanced body fluids called humours: yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood. A Persian doctor named Rhazes (865–925 CE), however, did see mental illness as arising from the brain. He recommended such treatments as baths and a very early form of behavior therapy which involved positive rewards for appropriate behavior. During the 18th and 19th centuries, also called the Age of Enlightenment, depression came to be viewed as a weakness in temperament that was inherited and could not be changed. The result of these beliefs was that people with this condition should be shunned or locked up. Persian doctor named Rhazes (865–925 CE), however, did see mental illness as arising from the brain. He recommended such treatments as baths and a very early form of behavior therapy which involved positive rewards for appropriate behavior. During the 1960s and 1970s, cognitive theories of depression began to emerge. The cognitive theorist Aaron Beck proposed that the way that people interpret negative events could contribute to symptoms of depression. One of the first drugs to emerge for the treatment of depression was known as Tofranil (imipramine), which was then followed by a number of other medications categorized as tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs). At the present time, doctors believe that depression arises from a combination of multiple causes including biological, psychological, and social factors.
HISTORY OF DEPRESSION
A form of autobiographical writing, a regularly kept record of the diarist’s activities and reflections. Written primarily for the writer’s use alone, the diary has a frankness that is unlike writing done for publication. Its ancient lineage is indicated by the existence of the term in Latin, diarium, itself derived from dies (“day”). The diary form began to flower in the late Renaissance, when the importance of the individual began to be stressed. In addition to their revelation of the diarist’s personality, diaries have been of immense importance for the recording of social and political history. Interest in the diary increased greatly in the first part of the 19th century, in which period many of the great diaries, including Pepys’s, were first published.
HISTORY OF DIARIES
'Whom do I tell when I tell the blank page?' Virginia Woolf asked her own diary. “No matter what their form or type,” says Johnson, “diaries are the living embodiment of E.M. Forster’s famous dare: only connect.” “It’s like an oil change for the brain. A mental and biochemical tune-up.” -- Dr. Neil Neimark. “Writing (a diary) is the ax that breaks the frozen sea within.” --Frank Kafka “A journal is the ideal place of refuge for the inner self because it constitutes a counter-world: a world to balance the other.” -- Joyce Carol Oates.
Meanwhile, writers from Tolstoy to Woolf to Lessing mined diaries for their creative work, and historical and political diaries - most famously, of course, that of Anne Frank - illuminate what diaries do best:enable a movement inwards so that the troubled mind can find a way outwards. Since the invention of paper, diarists have, in Johnson’s words, “wanted to be seen, admired, forgiven, transformed.” people forever reaching out into the universe with a voice that will be heard and somehow matter. And that’s the point.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF DIARIES | ALEXANDRA JOHNSON
In modernism Literature emerges as self-reflexive writing that folds back on itself to create a virtual space of meaning. Within this space characters can comment on themselves and on one another at a critical distance. Writing as a technology of the self in Kierkegaard and Foucault working on oneself, but has various potential outcomes. Another possible outcome is to use the virtual space of Literature as a realm for experimentation, self-objectification, and testing of the limits of language (critique). It sought to delve beneath the surface appearances and uncover the innermost secrets of the self, It assumed the self was open to sub deceptions.
MICHEL FOUCAULT | TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF
Orwell: “Outside my work the thing I care about the most is my gardening.” Gardening is part of his social and political sensibility, which is connected to his writing world. The Roses that Orwell left behind critiques totalitarianism, it is his pleasure and commitment outside the political realm. When the gardener is gone, the living beings are still being present, a part of them is still growing. Trees are upright guardians of the past, witness of our social and political responsibility. Roses are a quest for peace with its layers of symbolism. It feeds us joy with its unspeakability.
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS PODCAST | ORWELL’S ROSES
The Gardener symbolises maintence and care; to care for a garden, which one can plant seeds, tend to young plants, feed them, nurture them, and watch them grow. As the gardener of the drawing, reconditioning the drawing over time indicates the maintence and care that goes into the space.
CHARACTER | THE GARDENER
The Visitor visits the garden and may create chaos within the garden based on their emotions and behaviour that day. The vistor visits the drawing, creates new experiences as they inhabit and get lost within the space. The relationship between the two is one where they will never meet each other, only seeing the trails of the other as they are one.
CHARACTER | THE VISITOR
A list of small things in life that gets overlooked; which informs the making and form of the spatial prototype.
APPRECIATION & GRATITUDE LIST
CONCEPT SKETCHES
As more details are discovered and appreciated, the space grows and acts as a diary to capture the moments of gratitude. The space is reconditioned daily as an act of recording in a diary.
THE ACT OF DRAWING
Petals creating Ripples
Growing Vines on the Facade
Running Hands through Fabric
Moss growing in between Cracks
Exposed Roots of Trees
Hallway of Falling Petals
Intertwining Branches
Keys Turning in the Door/Light casting Shadows
The role of nature in architectural ornament has been actively questioned since architectural surfaces were used by Egyptians to record history. In labeling this explosion of energy “efflorescence - that which is within, deposited on the surface, that the inert, or crystalline nature of geometric forms contain within them great quantities of a vital organic energy. Geometry, rationality contains the organic, the emotional.
LOUIS SULLIVAN | A SYSTEM OF ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT
LOUIS SULLIVAN | CARSON PIRIE SCOTT BUILDING
These organic bursts of efflorescence are described by Sullivan as sub-centers of energy. These sub-centers effectively bind the concentric overlays of geometry together weaving over and under each geometric layer and ultimately reaching beyond the ornamental frame to bind the ornamental element to its background. His work remains as the prototype of “building-as-organism” tha underpinned the most significant revolution in space and form in American Architecture to date, thePrairie Houses of Frank Lloyd Wright.
CONCEPT SKETCHES
DRAWING DIARY | 1 NOV - 3 NOV
PENCIL Creation of matter and material in the mind.
MAKING OF THE DRAWING
MASKING TAPE Connection points in the mind; temporary fixings between memories, able to reconfigurate.
PAPER Landscape and basis of the mind.
“The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material.” Both sides of psyches, one suffers whilst the other cares and orchestrates the space for the former. A love story between both sides of the individual.
THE GARDENER & THE VISITOR | A LOVE STORY
“She will pass by and love the way how the petals fall.”
“It must be the wind that blew these rose petals my way.”
“Walking barefoot is more comfortable.”
“I like reading under the tree as leaves fall.”
“My jacket got wet from the water.”
“The bench is still warm, almost as if someone was here before me.”
TRACES LEFT | INHABITATION OF SPACE