Ok, a few new things started this week but none of the old stuff finished because it is evidently underwhelming. I’ve started making one of the most basic systems that I can think of which is a 3-dimensional grid structure. It’s 8×8x8 units and part of it looks like this:
I think it’ll look a little bit like Sol Lewitt’s cube structures but then I’m going to cause it to fail somehow. Can’t decide if I want to smash it, burn it, or cut chunks out of it.
I think it’s very difficult to show both a system and its failure simultaneously because every idea I seem to come up with is either just an exploration of a system or a depiction of a failure. The only way I’ve figured how to do both so far is by building a system and then causing its failure. Or making a system which is destined for failure.
I also went to a vacant factory building this weekend and took somewhere around 100 photos. The coolest (and coldest) part of it was a decaying building built with the Butler system. Here’s a couple images from the trip:
I think several of the photos turned out quite good, although they’re not ultimately what I’m looking for with this project. I think it might be possible for me to get access to the space again…
Time Log: 19 hours
