Client: Selina Hotels
Project: Library Art Installation
Role: Design and Fabrication
Excecution:
Planning and designing a library sculpture by ways of using recycled material from the original hotel pieces that had been stored away in a garage for years. Selina Hotels was renovating a hotel on the island of Florianopolis in the south of Brazil. While living there, I met several other artists and was offered a place to create an installation for the hotel. The space was a large octagon shaped room on the second floor overlooking the parking lot and the beautiful campus of the hotel.
Creating the installation was broken into several parts. Initial concepts were presented and after final sign off I began rummaging through the various materials deep in an old damp garage filled with tons of materials to upcycle. I was in heaven!
Knowing the piece was meant to be hung meant the material needed to be light and easy to work with. Once those material paremters were set I stumbled upon 30-40 doors with a lattice of wooden rods.
This installation used over 1000 up-cycled wooden dowels pulled from old doors found in the back of the site. The doors were heavy solid wood (see first picture in series above). The wood was from cinnamon (canela) wood. Every time you cut a piece you would get a lovely wiff of cinnamon. After doing the math I pulled wood from around 15 doors ( I think ). I then created a jig for the dowels, hanging wire, and hooks ( <--see gif on left). After creating my assembly line it was bend and hang for a while until I created the paint scheme.
Many podcasts later (thanks #npr #tedradio #wnyc #radiolab #spotify) I was able to hang the pieces in my grid (see plans section above). With a little bit of help everything worked out very well. I am happy with the piece, and what a learning opportunity!
This experience was one in a million. I was new to Brazil and this was my first project in a shop of only Portuguese and Spanish being spoken. With the words I knew at the time I navigated as best I could and through the help of some wonderful craftsmen and women we created this piece. Thank you crew and I look forward to the next project!
Project: Library Art Installation
Role: Design and Fabrication
Excecution:
Planning and designing a library sculpture by ways of using recycled material from the original hotel pieces that had been stored away in a garage for years. Selina Hotels was renovating a hotel on the island of Florianopolis in the south of Brazil. While living there, I met several other artists and was offered a place to create an installation for the hotel. The space was a large octagon shaped room on the second floor overlooking the parking lot and the beautiful campus of the hotel.
Creating the installation was broken into several parts. Initial concepts were presented and after final sign off I began rummaging through the various materials deep in an old damp garage filled with tons of materials to upcycle. I was in heaven!
Knowing the piece was meant to be hung meant the material needed to be light and easy to work with. Once those material paremters were set I stumbled upon 30-40 doors with a lattice of wooden rods.
This installation used over 1000 up-cycled wooden dowels pulled from old doors found in the back of the site. The doors were heavy solid wood (see first picture in series above). The wood was from cinnamon (canela) wood. Every time you cut a piece you would get a lovely wiff of cinnamon. After doing the math I pulled wood from around 15 doors ( I think ). I then created a jig for the dowels, hanging wire, and hooks ( <--see gif on left). After creating my assembly line it was bend and hang for a while until I created the paint scheme.
Many podcasts later (thanks #npr #tedradio #wnyc #radiolab #spotify) I was able to hang the pieces in my grid (see plans section above). With a little bit of help everything worked out very well. I am happy with the piece, and what a learning opportunity!
This experience was one in a million. I was new to Brazil and this was my first project in a shop of only Portuguese and Spanish being spoken. With the words I knew at the time I navigated as best I could and through the help of some wonderful craftsmen and women we created this piece. Thank you crew and I look forward to the next project!
The Final Product
The planning
The work
Ripple:
1000 up-cycled wooden dowels pulled from old doors. You can view this installation at Mole beach location on the isle of Florianopolis, Brazil.
Design and engineering: Life Takes Time
