The Solar System

 

The Solar System

 

The solar system is a cycle because the planets are constantly moving around. This is never ending. Also the shapes of planets remind me of a cycle because a shape is never ending and has a continuous line.

Rachel Whiteread

 

                                           Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, "Untitled (Library)" (1999) installed at Hirshhorn. Dental plaster from polystyrene mold and steel mounting.

Compare Richard Artschwager’s 2008 Book in Formica and wood, wherein he simplifies the book to its iconic shape.
Or, compare Victor Schrager’s Composition as Explanation series, which pictures unlabeled books as color compositions.

Or compare the image of books from Kirby Pilcher’s Room Temperature series. This photograph of unidentified books at a windowsill is evocative and the most located of the works discussed in this show–a certain desk, not “a desk,” and certain floral curtains, not “curtains.” Kirby depicts the singular–a small set of books in a specific place, where Whiteread casts the inparticular and sometimes imposing form of the library bookshelf.

Negative charge. A domestic light switch box, cast inversely in delicate plaster, becomes an impenetrable source of embalmed energy. An early edition by Rachel Whiteread in plaster and brass. Signed with initials by Rachel Whiteread, dated 1994 and numbered on the reverse of the archival box. Published by Parkett Publishing, Zurich.

 

          http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/rachel-whiteread-2319/text-artist-biography

Clocks Cycle

                   I decided to look at numbers wich relates to my idea on 'Clocks' being a Cycle.
                   I particularly liked this video clip as i thought it was powerfull and created an impact.

 

"Clocks" is a song by British alternative rock band Coldplay. It was written by all members of the band for their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head.

I chose to look into the idea of clocks as a possible theme. The shape of a clock is a continuous shape wich reminded me of the word 'Cycle. Also the concept of time and aging is a Cycle too. I wanted to incorporate makeup into my project as that is my main interest. I am going to make a survey on how long people take to do their makeup each morning.

 

 

 

 

 

Heartbeat Cycle

Here is a heartbeat monitor. I personally think that this reflects the meaning of the word 'Cycle' because everybody who is alive has a heart that constantly beats and therefore it is an ongoing Cycle. The only time a heart ever stops beating is when a person is dead.

Daily routines Cycle

                           This Cycle here shows two different morning Cycles

               This Cycle here shows different stages and different things people do during a day

I think that a daily routine Cycle is an interesting Cycle to monitor because it is a Cycle that we all do and that we all take for graunted. It would be interesting to set up a camera in all the rooms that I enter during one day and film every little detail. This could be interesting as it would allow me to appreciate the things I do that I would normally do in a rush. It may also reveal things or habbits or ways of being that nobody else has seen before except for myself.
I could also record my daily Cycle in many other ways such as;

- Making a flip book of the usual things I do during a day

- Taking a series of photographs of the activities that I do during a whole day

- I could get somebody to set up secret cameras of myself during different stages of the day. This would allow me to act natural and how I normaly would act as I would not be aware of being filmed. When people realise they are being filmed they automaticaly become artifical and present themselves differently are are more careful and aware of what they say and do

- I could hold the camera and film the places I go so then it becomes my view of my routines rather than somebody looking at me and my daily routines. I could also add sound to any of the films to make it more diverse and interesting. I would then need to think; am I going to add music as the sound? Or am I going to use sounds that relate to the things I am doing such as door creakes and footsteps?

Washing Cycle

                                            
This diagrame here shows the different stages of washing and what we do with the clothes after. I think this Cycle is realy important to our everyday lifes because it is constant and everybody takes part in their own washing Cycle.  We have luckily developed a quick and effortless way of washing our clothes using the washing machine. Before this everything had to be washed by hand in a big bucket. This must have been extremely time consuming and hard work.

                                                                       From this

 

To this

 

If I decided to do the idea of the washing cycle I could;

-  Make a massive washing machine and put it in the middle of a room and I could set it so that it washed things in reverse so I could put clean clothes in and have them come out dirty or I could put dirty clothes inside the washing machine and have it spinning the wrong way and for the whole process inside to be going backwards to break the cycle

- I could get a room with glass windows all around and I could fill each wall with washing machines facing the outside of the glass and they could all be open with clothes in and foam and water spilling out so eventualy the whole room gets full of water. This would be a realy interesting instillation and people could only view it from outside. This would make people feel at ease as it would suggest the washing machine is broken and in controll of what it does itself. I do not think I would be able to produce this instillation as I would not have enough money to buy all the washing machines and I would also need to be able to find a room that I could use.

                                                     How does the washing machine work?

Water Cycle

                   The water Cycle is a natural Cycle and therefore it is out of our control