Secular Submission

A mixture of the earlier 'Spatial Envelope' drawings and the theory of creating an interuption into the existing interior performance in the church in order to adapt to the shift in social values surrounding belief and religion and therefore the role of the Christian church. The new injected sculpture would require users to rethink how the space be used questioning its current function and the importance of a new function as a reflection of current social opinions. The new church would allow users to freely express relgious and moral opinions without commiting to a specifc line of thought.

Happy Birthday Daddy

Spatial Envelope Drawings

Three drawings experimenting with the notion of 'spatial envelopes' attempting to create a variety and different scales of interiors through enveloped drawing. 

Depoliticization of the church

Collage Photos

Site Photos

Contradicting Bible Quotes Collage

Edited Photos From Dark Room

Photo Models

Depoliticization of the church:

The new site for our current project is St Mildreds Church Canterbury. When asked to create drawings and models I decided to take a personal stance by looking at how I see churchs as a representation of war, conflict, pain and hypocrisy. I started by creating images that represent this by a. overlapping images of conflict with the church and b. placing bible texts that conflict with historical events (in my case I looked at the events of the Northern Ireland trouble as I was raised as I had a Catholic upbringing and have a large Irish family) I placed the text over 'typical' characteristics of a church such as the pointed roof, crucifix symbols, stained glass windows and gravestones.

My next step was to use film photography and develop a series of photographs in the dark room that begin to 'rub out' these typical aspects of a church. It is here I begin the Depoliticization of the church.

Following the rubbing out of photographs I began to slice the building cutting it into sections depending on certain materials and characteristics I then rearranged these into models quite aggressively creating a 'new' church something that I could no longer associate with the historical events linked to religion.

Spatial Envelope Models

Spatial Envelopes:

Group work using found objects to create models. Steph and I used a shopping trolley which we threaded with wool before sewing newspaper into the spaces created by this 'wool-web' in order to create spatial envelopes.

Crit Day!

Synoptic

Synoptic:

This task involved placing the designed sleeping machine into the partial demolition space. My ideas stemmed from the current political situation in which the government will be responsible for the rise in student fees. At first my ideas revolved around the sleeping machine providing basic living for those who could not now afford a maintenance loan to cover living costs but I took this further by also making it something that students could use to get more for their money in terms of taking claim over the spaces they use which would therefore have an effect over the hierarchy of education with the students moving from the bottom to the top due to the amount of control they would now have. 

It also worked well that my original designing of the machine looked at the divide between public and private so this machine was now providing very private and isolated spaces for people to disappear into within a busy and public space.