The Installation Urges and Intent is a fountain. A fountain that all urges and intents are put and that are recycled and flowing.This fountain is made of wood, with four levels to it. The reason why it is four levels is that this seems to be a common memory held by most humans to go back to as a reference. That is from the child to the great grandparent and not beyond, four generations. The four levels of these large wooden ponds are one above each other with a wooden column holding them apart. I imagine it to be like a tree but quite perfect in shape and dimensions. I thought of making it quite organic but I wanted to try and depict how it would look in the mind. Such as in the mind we can imagine perfect objects that don't exist in reality. I suppose like we read in class, Plato's work.
Around the edges at each level of the fountain are figures of humans and animals in cast iron. They are in cast iron as they have fixed urges and intentions at any one event. I have not fully worked out what types of humans or animals will be placed at different levels. I thought first poodles and corporate bankers would be at the top level and farm workers and sheep at the bottom. But I felt it played into a stereotype I am not comfortable or agreeable with. So I am playing around with who I think should be at each level. All of the animals and human characters have water coming out of them, some like they are urinating some coming out their mouths. Where this water is coming out of them is where I see these different characters and animals having urges and intent that feed into the common experience to all living things on this planet. As the water from the characters hits the main body of water in the pond it causes ripples, ripples that cause water to flow in different directions and flow over the edges of the first pond and down into the second one. When the water hits the rim of the pond it causes different sounds depending on where it hits, these sounds would be caused by which character is poring the most or least water into the pond.
I would put this installation in a very public place with a mixture of people from all walks of life like fed square. People will be able to interact with this installation by pressing buttons of characters they most relate to. Then more water would come out of those characters to affect the ripples on the water. Also in the centre of each pond would be a column that hold the ponds apart and there it would be covered by mirrors. When a person presses a button for which character they want more water to come out of, not only does that happen but a name of each character is digitally displayed on the surface of the mirrors. This is for different reasons but I kind of wanted to find a spiritual dimension to this installation that was reflective of human experience (maybe the reflections in the mirrors is like seeing God).
Around the edges at each level of the fountain are figures of humans and animals in cast iron. They are in cast iron as they have fixed urges and intentions at any one event. I have not fully worked out what types of humans or animals will be placed at different levels. I thought first poodles and corporate bankers would be at the top level and farm workers and sheep at the bottom. But I felt it played into a stereotype I am not comfortable or agreeable with. So I am playing around with who I think should be at each level. All of the animals and human characters have water coming out of them, some like they are urinating some coming out their mouths. Where this water is coming out of them is where I see these different characters and animals having urges and intent that feed into the common experience to all living things on this planet. As the water from the characters hits the main body of water in the pond it causes ripples, ripples that cause water to flow in different directions and flow over the edges of the first pond and down into the second one. When the water hits the rim of the pond it causes different sounds depending on where it hits, these sounds would be caused by which character is poring the most or least water into the pond.
I would put this installation in a very public place with a mixture of people from all walks of life like fed square. People will be able to interact with this installation by pressing buttons of characters they most relate to. Then more water would come out of those characters to affect the ripples on the water. Also in the centre of each pond would be a column that hold the ponds apart and there it would be covered by mirrors. When a person presses a button for which character they want more water to come out of, not only does that happen but a name of each character is digitally displayed on the surface of the mirrors. This is for different reasons but I kind of wanted to find a spiritual dimension to this installation that was reflective of human experience (maybe the reflections in the mirrors is like seeing God).
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