Car park production 2 - reflecting, refracting of light on a mirrored surface

I really have a fasination with the car parking lots here. The shade cloth acting as filter to project the cars from the sun light. The fabric flows free and light. flowing harmonously like music to the space.
(Wearing the space inhabited) The mirror cut in the shape of a 1960´s style, reflects, refracts light. Mirroring the striped pattern above. This mirror cuts a voild in space, leaving the models head, arms and legs floating in space. This creats an illusion, questioning what is real and virtual.
The material becomes immaterial. Mirror a material throught its reflective quality disguises ther truth. I see the material working similar to Mystique power to transform, disguise herself.

LOCATION IMAGES-(entrance to carpark+ 2x interior images).

CONCEPT SKETCHES-(image 1 front + side view of production concept, image 2 detail of props and costume).

Make up by MAC Alto palermo shopping local.

Behind the scenes image during the production shoot: ( model Linnea, Photographer Steve Wong, Production designer Cody Daley)

PRODUCTION IMAGES:

Buenos Aires as a glass vector:

When I first arrived in Buenos Aires, I noticed the way Argentinians loved to admire there own reflection.This production relates to interplay between the glass surface and light in forming refection, The blurring devide between the real and the virtual reflected reality.


CONCEPT SKETCH








PRODUCTION IMAGE

Buenos Aires as a glass
vector

The glass surface, reflects, and
refracts its surrounds through
the interplay of light.

At particular times of the day
the glass surface disguises the
interior within the architectual
construct.

Acting as a mirrored surface
for the Argentine to look and

admire there own reflected self.

Research notes:

All surfaces in Mies Van Der Rohes, German pavilion relfect and refract one another in this virtual space. Mirror ws used to cover a solid, such as the columns supporting the roof of the structure. The mirror disguises the true material within. It appairs as a voild in space, reflecting the surrounding environment. A good example of the is used in a local restaurant. The Standard restaurant in the up market Palermo Hollywood barrio.

Glass, light, reflection, refraction, stage, performance, ACTION BABY.

Dulce de Leche Production

Inspiration for the Dulce de Leche production steamed from, the Lavazza calender (2003) by photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

I really like the playfull nature of this advertising production. The cups and spoon generally used during the daily ritual of coffee drinking. Have know become accessuries in which decorate the body. Like coffee, we desire sex. These two have become blurred.

This production about desire, fantasy. When I first encountered Buenos Aires, I related the colour of the Argentinian men to the colour of Dulce de leche. The relationship to dulce de leche, is something most crave and desire on a daily basis.




PRE PRODUCTION SKETCHES

This production involved painting the body in 6 containers of dulce de leche. A zipper was first stuck to the body and then the body covered in deche de leche.




PRODUCTION IMAGES

Dulce de leche

in alcolhol,

for breakfast,

on pancakes,

flavoured ice cream,

in coffee, in shakes,

on bread or toast,

in and on cakes,

and why not wear as fashion?

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CARPARKING LOT PRODUCTION + overall inspiration for this project

3 x images of both the exterior and interior of Mies Van Der Rohes (1929) German Pavilion
exhibited in Barcelona, Spain.

Mirror has become a central theme in my work. The ever changing interplay that occurs between light and glass fasinates me. At particular times of the day architectual spaces are revealed and disguised. At one moment a glass surface may appair as a mirrored surface, reflecting the surrounding environment, whiling disguising the interior within. In another moment, the glass surface becomes translucient, disappairing in space. Offen people and birds a like are folled and painfully hit the glass surface. Buildings reflect and refract one another and thereby cut a viold in the cultural space of the city. Mirror in my work is used to disguise, producing voilds, perhaps opening into our virtual spaces. The mirror in production series Uniquely wonderful Buenos Aires, connects each image as a series. It also isolates each subject from the environment they each stand in.

PRODUCTION IMAGE

SCAFFOLDING PRODUCTION

LOCATION IMAGE + explanation

This architectual construct of scaffolding, acts as a support to this ageing historic church. From the angle I have selected for this photographic production, shot from below looking upward. This construct could appair like a tectonic ladder to heaven in biblical terms.

In my image, the model appairs suspended in space. Similar to effect, when experiencing a reflective virtual archtiectual space. The model hangs, suspended in limbo, between two worlds, the virtual and the real. This has become more and more blurred and our modern architectnological environments.

In this locational image, this support could symbolise the church falling apart, in a world progressing forward into new beliefs and forms of spirituality.




















CONCEPT SKETCHES

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PRODUCTION IMAGES

Architecture, Photography and cinema exist in the dimention of time and movement. Fashion and Theatre relate to the way we move through, interact with, experience architecture. Buenos Aires city is a stageset, in which to explore these themes. Constructing various staged photographic productions. Since the completion of the first year of Interior design, glass has fasinated me. Mirror in my current project has been used as a direct relationship to Mies Van der Rohes, German Pavilion in Barcelona, (1929) His exploration of surfaces reflecting of one another, creating a virtual space, a light weight space. I am interested in way mirror oscillates between materialism and illusionism. The steel columns are covered by a mirrored surface, becoming almost invisible, a void in space. Mirror in my work acts as platform, or device to separate, isolate each subject from the environment they stand. The mirrored platform reflected the surrounding environment, disapearing in space. Glass, has become a central theme for exploration in my work. The interplay in glass and light at particular time of the day in reveals and disguises the interior and exterior space becoming a mirror in one moment and translucient in another moment. This ever changing interplay of light and reflective surface fasinates me. The buildings reflect each other and thereby cut a void in the cultural space of the city. Mirror in my work is used to disguise, distort, producing voids, perhap openings into other spaces. To conclude this Statement, this is an exploration into understanding and to articulate the surface between the experiencing self and the architectural utopia we live in. “It is us, It is you, It is them” is the 2008 theme and related to very fact that we surrounded by reflected surfaces contstantly changing through the interplay of light.