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.