Apothem Portal - - -
Apothem Portal - - -
Apothem
Portal
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A Freestanding, highly intentional, octagonal tensegrity sculpture. This piece lacks structural hardware components such as nuts & bolts and only uses tension straps, rudimentary friction joinery, and a splash of gravity for its construction.
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Apothem: a rhetorical radian from the center of a regular polygon at right angles to any of its sides.
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Portal: a doorway, gate, or an entrance, especially when large or imposing
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Apothecary: to cultivate, create or prepare herbal and fungal medicines
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Scorched, to resemble the embers of our own inner tinder to feel Truly seen beyond only in our dreams, using Salvador Dali for direct inspiration on surreal motifs.
Chat GPT to text based generative image processing appllications allowed the ability to create entirely Ai originated animations using a host of several applications, that are then projected onto a silver screen held in place entirely and only by intentional octagonal tensegrity
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Wooden chips can be adorned in language or drawings on any given particular side, one burned, the other painted white. Then with a participants specific intention, it can be willfully relinquished, physically inscribing it into the sculpture itself, many of these chips are used structurally as stabilizing shims as well.
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Your Intentions Built this
Representing creation from destruction, we all write the story of our own lives and the blank canvass of a white “screen” helps us to remember that through the reflection on our own thoughts and self image, this interactive live ai generative magic effectively resembling a mirror into which we can peer.
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With essential herbs and aromas infused within the mystic mist emitter contained within, to titillate the senses, and unvail our unconscious.
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Gilded chains compliment our gaudy nature, and speak to remind us we are but mortals of this earth, as are the gleaming stones we’ve forged our society from.
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The specific petroleum foliage arrangement surrounding the sculpture could represent an apothecary of ancient times lets say, but represented in affordable floral midcentury. ideally invoking homage to generational wisdom transpired through fungal and plant medicines that have come prior.
