Kristine Bjaadal, Underskog

This chair is by Kristine Bjaadal.

The furniture has worn-out as time goes by.

But this chair is apparently different access to design that

it could make a flower pattern as worn-out the fabric.

What I like it is that the worn-out is the useless one but valueable things or beauty itself.

Duncan Wilson, Snowbench

This work is by Duncan Wilson, called snow bench. She inspired by an encounter with a snow covered park bench ; the experience of disturbing the surface, leaving ones mark or discovering the trace of a previous presence. The snowbench uses video-elastic memory foam and diaphragm value to retain the imprint of the user, documenting the physical interaction.

The bench becomes an icon of the object and situation that inspired it,

evoking memories of an experience that contrasts with the present environment and context.

Observe traces in my space

I tried to find my traces in my space as well.

Here is my space, so there are only my traces and also, there could be repeated action of mine.

Thus it could be more strong than other space.

The right picture show same action to kick door as others.

One day, it was broken as my habit to kick.

Those all picture are all about traces, I have used.

Even though, there is quite big space. I use only specific area.

Through this observation, I found that all traces have a user's own track, habit, charactor.



Observe traces in college

These all pictures were taken in Chelsea college.

I tried to find traces by others have left behind.

Those 4 images are the area around door's handle.

It was dirty and worn-out.

This picture show people's action to kick door even thogh there is a handle.

Thus, the bottom of the door was also dirty.

Those pictures are staircase and bar of that.

People hold a bar normally when they go up, so only top of bar was worn-out. and dirty.

These picture are also staircase.

As people's common habit or action to go up in the middle, it was worn-out.

Through out these all pictures, I can find somthing that there is common habit among the people.

Or the traces could be a guildline to do to others.

It could be material problems or designs problem as well.

Thus, I want to develop from the traces which has left by others because there are a lot of information and they tell us common action.

Observe traces in public space

After the interim show, I decided to observe the traces by others in public space and my space.

In the traces, I could find something about people's action and mny information.

For example, the third and fourth photo show the behavior to lean the bar when people stand near that.

Thus, only the area, touched is worn out.

First image show the people's action that they make dirty around the corner.

In the middle image, it is recognized that the area near the bin was dirty as chewing gums.

Those pictures are taken in Tate modern.

All are worn-out the specific area by common habits or actions,

so we can find many information from the traces.

Material Experiments

This stage is slightly tangent works but it was good for material experiments.

I thought that there are many elements to make traces which are maker, user, nature, time and material itself.

This is made by plaster. I press the top of this before dry.

This is made by steel and also, I hit this by hammer to make sink the top of the box.

I dipped a sponge into liquid porcelain and put weigt on top.

After drying, it is fired into a kiln. Thus the sponge could melt and only porcelain has left.

This sponge could wet easily but once dry, it can be fix the previous form.

I melted the candle to fill out the box and then, melted again to make a sink the top.

This is made by alum. I melted alum in hot water and put a thread into a melted alum water.

After a week, the crystal could appear.

This is same method to make a crystal but different shape.

Richard Long : Nature Trace

“My art is in the nature of things

I like the idea of making something from nothing

I can walk all day and sleep all night following an idea

I use the land without need of ownership

My talent as an artist is to walk across a moor
or place a stone on the ground

My work is about movement and stillness
the walking and the stopping places
it can be passing by or leaving a mark

I use intuition and chance body and mind
time and space

I use the world as I find it”(from the exhibition brochure)

Richard Long is a Landscape Artist whose work are about actions in nature.

He makes circle on land or piles stones by repeating action.

This traces are all defferent, depending on the place, the time and the circumstances.

This below picture is a famous photograph, called 'A Line Made by Walking' in 1967.

Richard Long began walking as an art form as a way of considering scale, distance, dimensionality, time and space, and has been doing it ever since. The walks are often documented by photography, text or maps as appropriate, and these become artworks in their own right. It was very satisfying for me to see such an extensive body of work all together

– and to recognise many old friends that I have long known in reproduction.

I was particularly interested in his use of black and white photography, which together with lettering and printing techniques,

both ‘dated’ the works and also gave a sense of an endless journey through time.

His focus is upon the landscape. Whether his walks have been taken close to home in England, or in remote areas of the world such as the Sahara or the Arctic Circle, there is, on the whole, no sign of human activity in the photographs – only the signs of his own passing through. (http://throughstones.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/richard-long-exhibition/)

Muddy Water Fall, 1984

This work is trace of muddy water.

He recorded the process of falling water as a paint.

Symbol

Lego Dispatch work, which is by Jean Vormann, is has been using Lego to patch works in walls and statues, many of which were leftover from World War II.

It creates not only a visually engegning piece but also a comedic one.

These works are as a momorial to repair historical buildings.

Jean Michel Basquit always draw his symbol of sign, corwn, on evey piece of works like Aaron.

In other words, everybody can recognised that the work with crown is made by his own work.

Indexicality

I tried to do experiment to leave traces various way.

Then, I focused on traces as a indexicality, so I found several references.

This works is by Aaron who always leave a his fingerprint on his works as index.

This plate is by Klein Reid who is had thrown and frimmed porcelain plates with unique tell-tale embassed fingerprints each plate is gloss slazed and high fired in an special edition of only 17.

This work is to create a comfortable space for students to relax. At the end of each of the five days the installation was open, she dusted the space for finger prints, then fixed the resulting prints with clear sealer, so that finger prints accumulated over time.

OOO My Desgin

I am also interested in the relationship between people's action and space.

Pin Press is the interactive toy kid's wall, it is a wall made of mobile elements(big pins) that waill create an interaction with kid's activity to makes cleaning up a fun. This work is also the way to leave traces by actions as a temporary way.

Sophie Calle

The Sleepers, 1979

Calle's first Fully realized installation, consists of one hundred and seventy-three photographs and twenty three people(friend, neighbors, strangers) allowed her to observe them as they slept.

She photographed and interviewed these people-each of whom was allotted.

One eight hour sleeping period in her own ben-over the course of an entire week. Such behaviour, which might have seemed intimate or slightly titillating of photographed in a single episode, becomes, when it is repeated twenty three times, of little more interest than a clinical record.

The hotel, 1986

A year later she returned to Venice where she got a temporary job as a chambermaid,

she made s peice of work about her imagined idea of

who the hotel guests were based on their perssonal belongings.

Layer Cup

These cups are made by wood varnish to make layers for permanence.

(This work is developed from the previous work(Leave a Trace 5).
It was made full cups with the varnish and poured it several time while it was drying.

Traces of my daily life

This film is expended the previous work and  leaving my traces of my daily life.

I painted luminous paints all my body and I was acting at home as normal.

After doing all, I turned off the light, so you could know what I had done.

Leave my Trace in London

This film is the process of my journey from waterloo statio to meet friends.

There are two screen which are seen my foot and my sight.

It means that one is the action to make traces where I had walked through and

the other is the memory about what I had seen.

Leave my Trace in London

In this stage, I wanted to leave my traces in London.

I marked number which is steps from Waterloo.

Hoping space to be expanded toward outside, I went to Waterloo Station.

Because I wanted to find a place shich is a symbol of travel for me and others as well.

Nowadays, St. Pancras is the eurostar station.

Thus, Waterloo, the former station, became a symbol fo travel as a trace.

And I live in Wimbledon, I go to waterloo directly whenever I go another place in London.

Those 4 piece of picture are a example of the way to record around the spot

that is by every 100 steps from Waterloo Station.

While I was walking, I just calculated my steps by each 100s.

After making this map, I found something interesting things that the spacing

between each numbers are different on two way.

The numbers on the bottom line, it is quite narrow comparing with upper one.

It means that was crowded in that road to walk at the moment.



Trace & Control

This process to make cup is a same idea to chopsticks one.

By using clay and plaster, I made a cup mould and then, I made hand pressed cup.

Those two experiments could controp people's action to hold cup or chopsticks.

It meas that traces have many information itself, so we can design something by using traces.

Trace & Control

In this stage, I wanted to develop the idea of 'Trace and Control'.

I painted the colour on my hand and grab chopsticks as normal.

Then, I cut the area I have touched, so others can use this chopsticks easily by my traces.

Trace & Control

One day, I found a something interesting that the action of hoplding a cup

could be changed by cup holder.

It means that the action can be controlled by specific objects.