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Fuerza Natural

Vertical Studio Instructor: Hernan Diaz-Alonso


In this studio three objects were used to explore the literal and the cliche. The original pieces are clearly identifiable while the whole is a novel object producing a form which shifts between the recognizable and the unknown. The original objects were hunting trophies from dutch still life, gothic windows and vapes. The project mines the cliche, forms that have been long overlooked, to uncover its hidden potential.
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Early study models were amassed through a centripital energy. Character and posture arose as the vapes protruded to appear like limbs and the windows became heads and bodies. These forms evolved from the animal (the goose), the natural (stone window), and the technological (the vape). This partial synthesis resulted in a form of becoming. An inbetween form, part nature and part machine, the unresolved quality of the objects produces a discomfort. Are they frozen or in motion? Cruel or kind? The forms become beasts, feral machines.


  

The harvesters are the primitive models. They collect and filter the water from the river to irrigate the fields. The project became a dove hunting field. The site is located in Rosario, Argentina on a large plot of land beside the river, dense suburban housing and the Rosario Victoria Bridge. Hunting is a rural pastime whose presence in the urban environment results in a productive tension. These forms are in a way the instantiation of that friction.
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