David Ogle Workshop

" Much of my work to date has dealt with exploring notions of materiality, of permanence and of the perception of objects in space. using light as a sculptural medium, my work is innately ephemeral. it begins as a set of strict mathematical procedures that are played out within an environment. the space simultaneously shapes the work and becomes manipulated by it."

David Ogle.

I found todays workshop with David Ogle really inspiring. the way he used simple thin materials such as fishing line but on a huge and mathematical scale, illuminating this with ultra violet lights to create this lazer light effect. Due to the lightness of these materials, they can also be scaled up and down easily within a space to adapt it to the environment. One thing I found fascinating about David Ogle was the way be could really change the concept of a space and change the way people encounter it. He uses run down warehouses and unused spaces and turns it into something amazing. 

David also gave a load of great advice within this workshop, which was to always have a venue in mind before creating a piece, so that you are able to determine what your capable of doing within that space and to plan as much as possible weather it is making small models of your piece to work with. 

 

After David Ogle's workshop, we was set a small 15 minute task to create an instillation and adapt it to the environment we were in. Most students decided to leave the room to look for spaces else were, but me and a fellow student decided to collaborate and work with the heated floor board. As most of the materials we had were neon colours or involved lighting, this was a great place to create our installation as it was very dark. The piece consisted of shot glasses, neon straws, glow sticks and el wire. I liked the way that unless you walked right over the installation you weren't able to see what was inside. and a lot of the other students were surprised when they actually got closer and looked within. considering we only had 15 minutes or so to make this piece we definitely did a good job at adapting it to the environment we were given and can see myself continuing to use the shot glasses and lighting throughout my work.