Kaitlin Fall 2020

1. DO IT !

2. QCQ #1: Oscar Tuazon

3. Anarchitecture: One Minute Structure

4. Anarchitecture: A Sculptural Armature (final)

5. QCQ #2: Queer Phenomenology: Introduction

6. QCQ #3: Queer Phenomenology: Chapter 1

7. Anarchitecture: A Wall, A Space 

Project #2 Index

1. The Artist is Present: Research 

2. Anarchitecture: A Wall, A Space (Research) 

3. Anarchitecture: A Wall, A Space (Final) 

4. QCQ #4: Gordon Matta-Clark 

5. Anarchitecture: Anarchitecture (Research)

1. Self-Directed Practice #1: Research

2. Self-Directed Practice #1: Final

3. Self-Directed Practice #2: Research

4. Self-Directed Practice #2: Final

For this i worked on a large scale to play with what I was physically capable to do.

Working in construction and being unable to lift a post shore by myself is something I have come to accept.

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty

Thinking more about space in combination with objects. How we place objects is specific. We do not usually put things in our way through out a space.

An obstical coarse is opposite

In combination with time space and objects

These elements create next level interaction

I was thinking how I can rearrange my environment to make it a different interaction.

Whether it be a transformation of the space itself or placing foreign object into that space.

Removing gravel, making a non walk way.

Phyllida Barlow

Mangroves are my inspiration, they are not land, Yet they appear solid. They are essential, they are fragile, they are strong.

I thought also about that immense occupying of space.

An "above" space.

Stilt houses

Highchairs

Crows nests

Bunk beds

Nests in general

Then I thought of how we occupy a space what do we put in that space.

I think about the objects that accumulate

I want to make something that is an occupied space that can not be occupied by a human entity.

Like the mangroves.

Umberto Dattola

Luise Valdes Cardboard house

What did I urn?

I first intended to make an urn.

Making this i was hoping it was not going to collapse, like it did. So in this respect I have learned many technical work outs that wouldn't be found out in any other circumstance.

Then I thought this gesture that ultimately focuses on me, my death. Putting myself in the middle of a space, the center. I build up the walls to protect my thin skin. And I am quite literally un able to finish or complete it.

In many aspects it speaks of who I am.

1. Corners: QCQ 

2. Corners: Research

3. Corners: Final

4. The Dialects of Outside and Inside: QCQ

5. Door - The Dialects of Outside and Inside: Research

Kendell Geers

Sugar glass

Sam Gilliam

With this i wanted to either visually distort the space, cutting it in half horizontally. Or making things that we interact with in our spaces uncomfortable.

Using fake glass, candy, says something about the space/location.

Food stains, kitchen cloths

Paper towels

Laura White

The process of naturally building material up around a being is intriguing.

I would wonder what form my hive / nest would take

Vessel

Thomas Heatherwick

The idea is to take pieces of my house that is falling apart and place in an underwater space.

Statement on water lever rising

Architecture overcome by the space

"And language bears within itself the dialects of open and closed."

Untitled

With this statement I thought of body language as well and how we communicate without the written word. Then I wanted to make the connection with the door.

To sign the word door you move your hand inward towards yourself. That movement seemed very inviting and personal.

A distinct action.

That relates to the body

It defines interior. In and out

So I constructed a smaller space that requires they movement of the hands to pass through. Making the sign for door.

I wanted to make a clear distinction that its sign language so I put it at a height that people sign at.

Gold mimicking the adjacent gold handle in hopes that the one interacting with this piece will want to touch and use the hands as handles.

Handles open doors, hands open doors

I started to think about how I use my body as a door and what I feel like a door is. I thought about how I use my voice as a door, words can be doors. But without words I would say hands. Still I thought about language .

Then I looked up sign language for door.

Where to draw the line between the outdoors and indoors.

With this i can explore where to over lap