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March 03, 2006

A reconfigured vision machine

Well, spring break begins today, so I guess I'll finish posting some of my work from last semester. I took a fabrication class, just to have an opportunity to get my hands on Yales many various CNC machines. This piece was made using a medium 3-axis router and one of our giant water-jet cutters. The materials are 1/4" thick stainless steel plate and american walnut slab. The final product measures about 2'x4'.

The pattern for the stainless steel screen was directly sampled from an Albrecht Durer woodcut, and the height source for the wood surround was derived from calculations based on the same engraving. I've been fascinated by this old woodcut for years...as has just about any other architect with research interests in representation. The idea here is to play the implicit pictorial depth within the original wood cut against the deep space visible through the screen, as well as the shallow surface relief in the wood surround. Its supposed to be a reconfigured version of Durer's perspective machine–illustrated in the original woodcut.

The piece is going to be in a show of digital fabrication going on here at the SOA. I'll post some images of the whole show once its installed.

Posted by mclutter at March 3, 2006 04:42 PM

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