afsart:musings

AFSart: Black Power Nkisi

2010-07-26T19:36:00.000-07:00

AFSart: Black Power Nkisi

AFSart: BlackManGrove Pneumatophores

2010-07-25T21:47:00.000-07:00

AFSart: BlackManGrove Pneumatophores

AFSart: BlackMangrove | Resilience | Pneumataphores

2010-07-11T18:56:00.001-07:00

AFSart: BlackMangrove | Resilience | Pneumataphores
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All the three elements have been produced. cnc, mill and fdm. Now each element will need to be refined as the final sculpture is completed. More posts coming as the work progresses.

first mill project

2010-07-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

mobius stripped

2010-07-07T18:16:00.000-07:00

digitalsand

2010-07-07T17:02:00.000-07:00

afsART: BlackManGrove 2010

2010-06-27T16:58:00.001-07:00

afsART: BlackManGrove 2010
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At about the 60% phase on this sculpture. The epoxy work is done. I have to resolve the eyes and the mouth. Then it is on to the base. This evening I will work on the models for the pneumatophores so that they can be fdm printed. Oce printed they will be molded so that casts can be created from them. I intend to use foam to create the massing for the base.

AFSart: BlackManGrove | Resilience

2010-06-17T21:35:00.001-07:00

AFSart: Resilience
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This was a quick concept sketch that I developed for a sculptural idea almost three years ago. In the proposal i stated that "The “Black Man Grove” series adopts the mangrove tree as a symbol of the African Diaspora. Nature has provided the mangrove with many adaptations that has allowed them to thrive in challenging ecological environments. The form of the work incorporates the tap root system and pneumatophores of the mangrove tree with anthropomorphic abstractions of the human form that resemble and allude to African Nkonde and Nkisi invocation figures. The resulting objects combine to create a testament to the resilience of nature and the human spirit."

This sketch will serve as the starting point for my work this summer and my explorations of both two dimensional and three dimensional digital fabrication processes.

AFSart: Pepakura02

2010-06-16T21:41:00.001-07:00

AFSart: BlackManGrove: Pepakura02
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It's really nice when things come together. I had fun putting this piece together. I challenged myself to build it without looking at the computer model. It certainly went together better than the first model in tag board. This paper stock has a lot more structural integrity and I will be using it to construct more paper models this summer.

I am awaiting some brush-on epoxies from polygem that I will be using to further stiffen the model in order to make it more permanent. There is a clear epoxy that goes on very thin that will stiffen the paper and another product that can be used to build up a 1/8-1/4" shell. For this model I will be using the clear to coat this model.

Joe Siepel, a fellow sculptor stopped by to talk with me the other day and began to admire the piece. He told me that he loved the numbers on the piece that are used for registration. I told him that I liked them too and that I really love the way they become more dense in the areas of high detail in the model. He made me promise not to cover them up. This study is more about the digital fabrication process and will reflect the hand of the artist and the tools that were used to create it. The numbers stay.

AFSart: BlackManGrove Pneumatophores

2010-06-16T21:20:00.001-07:00

Afsart: BlackManGrove | Pepakura01_Plaster
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This work embodies the sculptural attitude that when you complete a digital fabrication process you are only at the 40% stage of the sculptural development.

When I created the original Pepakura Study I used manilla tag board. I was somewhat disappointed by the lack of structural integrity in the material. When I stuffed the piece in my car the paper lost alot of its structure and began to buckle. At one point I thought about cutting the work apart to cannibalize the parts. (I've been known to do that) the piece sat in my garage for a couple weeks until the end of the quarter.

In one of those "what the heck moments" I took it to the studio and decided to see if I could cover the paper in plaster to see how it would hold up. To my surprise it worked very well. As the legs were completed the head began to regain some of its integrity. I decided to cover the head with rigid rap in order to maintain some of the details of the underlying form. Suffice it to say I am very happy with the results.

I am currently covering the plaster with sculpting epoxy bringing to life the black mangrove tree form. The shift in scale imbue the work with more power and sculptural presence. As I was working I realized that I will be able to bring to life an earlier computer model that I created around the idea of BlackManGrove Pneumatophores.

I will be posting the progress of this work and It will be one of the themes that I will be exploring during this summer.

afsart: mobius fdm

2010-05-16T16:53:00.001-07:00

afsart: mobius fdm
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This is a square version of an earlier mobius model. http://afsart.blogspot.com/2010/04/afsartmobius-fdm.html. I am currently working on a large scale pepakura model based on this design.

afsart: FDM Mask

2010-05-16T16:30:00.001-07:00

afsart: FDM Mask
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An update of an earlier posting on the rendering "Mask". This is the completed fdm model made using the new translucent abs plastic.

afsart: BlackManGrove Pepakura

2010-05-16T16:22:00.001-07:00

afsart: BlackManGrove Pepakura
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BlackManGrove Pepakura Study II. Modeled in 3d Studio Max. UnWrapped using Pepakura Designer paper unfolding software. www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/. Laser cut tagboard. Model is composed of 159 pieces that are glued together.. 4.5'x4'x3.5'app. The next step will be to coat the paper with a material that makes the sculpture permanent.

afsart: SCPT250 Spring 2010

2010-04-29T10:34:00.001-07:00

afsart: SCPT250 Spring 2010
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One of the abiding principles of SCPT250 is the 40% principle. This principle reflects the attitude that when you get your object back from the fabrication technician you are at the 40% stage of the sculptural development of your object. One of the ways that we encourage further sculptural exploration of objects created through the milling process is to create molds of the artwork. This accomplishes several things. First, It diminishes the preciousness of computer aided manufactured object. It encourages students to think of digital fabrication as an intermediate process in the exploration of sculpture and it presents the opportunity for further material and process explorations using the computer generated forms.

afsart: mask

2010-04-24T07:21:00.001-07:00

afsart: mask
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This model is an abstraction of a mask form. It is an extension of my continuing explorations of polygonal modeling techniques in maya. This geometry began as a cube primitive that was articulated using surface extrusions and polygonal bridges. FFD and Twist deformations were used to further transform the form that was then subdivided to add more detail.

The model will be FDM printed using a new translucent material. I am very excited about this and can't wait to see the finished print. The model was designed to fit within a 8"x6"x6" build envelope.

afsart:mobius FDM

2010-04-02T22:19:00.001-07:00

afsart:mobius FDM
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A question by one of my students led me to go home and work out this problem for creating mobius strips. Deconstructing the problems in its simplest terms yields a line rotated about a closed circular path 180 degrees from start to finish. Thankfully Maya has many powerful commands that can be used to accomplish this easily using polygonal modeling techniques..
http://digitalsculpture250.blogspot.com/2010/02/mobius-stripped.html

Andrew F. Scott | Mass >> Serial Volume

2010-03-08T05:50:00.001-08:00

Andrew F. Scott | Mass >> Serial Volume
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I created this form as a part of a video demonstrating the cut my ribs script by un didi. http://dimitrie.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/bridge-to-materiality.

Andrew F. Scott | Gavel on a Cold winter night

2010-01-08T08:18:00.001-08:00

Gavel on a Cold Night
At my opening "Invocations of Power" at the KIACA gallery in columbus ohio. Ruth Newcomer of the Ohio Supreme Court reminded me that I should go down to the court and shoot some snow pictures of the Gavel. This had to be the coldest photo shoot I've ever done. Pardon me if the photos are a little blurry. I was freezing my @$% off. She also let me know that the work is very popular with everyone in the Supreme Court Building and that it is has also become the place to take that iconic Ohio Judicial Center Photo. Sometimes you get it right.

black mangrove panels

2010-01-02T21:18:00.001-08:00

black mangrove panels
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I have to thank my former studio mate david bamber for helping me install my multi-panel laser engravings in the Kiaca Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. I look forward to installing the rest of the show and the opening on Thursday Jan 7, from 6:00 - 9:00.

afsart: digital relief prints

2009-12-18T20:31:00.001-08:00

afsart: digital relief prints
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This posting is dedicated to my high school art teacher Bernard Rattiner who introduced me to the joy of printmaking and made it my first artistic love.

Over the winter break I have been exploring relief printing using laser engraved plates. Through a series of experiments I have come up with some techniques and applications that are beginning to yield some very good results.

While the texture of the wooden plates yield some very nice effects I have a little more work to do on both the pressure and the inking in order to get the quality that I want.

When preparing the wooden plates there is a lot of work that needed to get the laser setting right in order to avoid burning your plate when you have very dense lines. After some trial and effort or I should say charr and error, I have got those settings dialed in. These settings will come in handy when I am creating wood burnings as an end unto themselves.

Acrylic plates seem to be the way to go to get rich color and excellent line quality. Additionally there is the added benefit of being able to use the same plates for Intaglio processes. My colleague Prof. Steven Ramsey has turned me onto a real cool application for combining both of these processes on the same plate.

I am currently working on a new series of plates. Once I have them printed I will devote a posting that deals more specifically with the content of the work and the digital processes that I use to create them.

afsart: black mangrove | ambient occlusion

2009-12-11T18:32:00.001-08:00

afsart: black mangrove | ambient occlusion
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The relationships between rendering and digital fabrication processes to traditional printmaking is an important aspect of my current work.

Ambient Occlusion rendering provides a means of creating renderings that manipulate value and create marks that are similar in many ways to lithographic printing processes.

While wood engraving and block printing seems to consume much of my creative energy these days, I look forward to exploring the lithographic process through ambient occlusion rendering.

Etching, Wood Block Printing and Lithography. I guess it all has come full circle.

Sankofa

2009-11-17T18:47:00.001-08:00

My day was made today when John Adams and Ricki Dwyer said to me that their sculpture was created in the spirit of Sankofa an Akan word meaning "Go back and fetch it". It embodies the need to understand your past so that you are prepared to step into the future. Made my quarter.

Week 10:

2009-11-16T21:32:00.001-08:00

Week 10: Work In Progress
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Sometimes during final week my students really bring it. In this case it is a collaborative Sculpture by John Adams (Industrial Design) an Ricki Dwyer (Fibers). This work combines digital fabrication and basket weaving techniques.These photos depict the work in progress which will be complete for finals in two days. This is an excellent example of both the collaborative and high-tech high touch ethos of the sculpture minor program.

BlackManGrove: Black Ice 1109

2009-11-07T22:47:00.001-08:00

BlackManGrove: Black Ice 1109
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An extension of an earlier work "Soul On Ice". In this work the form of the BlackManGrove is encased within a cubic framework. The Object within is revealed through the interior contours. I love that the three dimensional form is revealed within based on the light and the viewers location from the piece. The refraction and reflections of the light reveals the modeling of the form.

FDMSummer09: Update

2009-11-02T04:29:00.001-08:00

PA261308
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This is the Bronze cast created from the FDM model begun during the Summer of 2009. I have completed almost all of the devestment of the ceramic shell and chasing. That was fun. I am currently thinking about how I want to move forward with the patination for this piece. I really like the open nature of the form. Overall I am very happy with how this turned out. More updates as the work progresses.

[fab_lab]_SCAD: AuthorShape

2009-11-02T03:14:00.001-08:00

[fab_lab]_SCAD: AuthorShape
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Enlisting the help of photography majors, each member of Fab.Lab.SCAD was instructed to “paint” a fluid form using a light source in front of the open shutter of a digital camera, beginning and ending in the same position so as to ensure continuous author-shapes were created. The digital photos were randomized and presented to the group, where each member was then asked to pick a shape. Each photo was placed in Abobe Illustrator and live-traced, producing vectors that could be exported into Rhinoceros. These author-shapes were arranged in a random vertical sequence, removing individual identification and any resulting sense of hierarchy within the group. Using a loft command a seamless surface was created through a series of continuous curves between each author-shape. The resulting form derived from unity and balance represents the individual role in collective collaboration: the column.

Afsart: Cut My Ribs | Massive Unroll

2009-08-20T22:40:00.001-07:00

andrew f. scott: Serial Form Studies

I love the fabbing world. This sculpture is an application of scripts developed by Dimitrie Stefanescu in Bucharest Romania. His scripts CutMyRibs developed the waffle intersections for these forms and his MassiveUnroll unrolled the sections for laser cutting. They have helped to streamline the process of creating both waffle and serial forms. I look forward to continue using it in the future to develop sculptural objects. More of his great work can be found at his blogsite Un Didi. Check him out. He does great work.

Summer09:fdm

2009-08-20T22:21:00.001-07:00

Summer09:fdm
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I have recently made the decision to begin posting my computer models. I always considered the computer models a part of my sketchbook that I use to develop the sculptural forms that I create. I feel very strongly that the work has to stand on its own. For this reason I have made a point of only posting the work.

My teaching provides me with the opportunity to explore new techniques and to step out of the box of my normal studio process. While I am still spending a great deal of time exploring Digital Fabrication techniques. I have had to focus on 3d computer modeling and rendering as a part of my teaching.

The image above represents a form that was created to show how polygonal modeling techniques could be used to create an open sculptural form that could be transformed parametrically by manipulating maya nodes. The form was also used to introduce students to basic rendering and lighting techniques.

The object is currently being grown using Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). Once the model is complete my long-term plan is to cast the sculpture in bronze. I will provide updates to the process as this work is created. For more images go to: http://tinyurl.com/nxcy87

Soul on Ice

2009-08-01T00:24:00.001-07:00

Soul on Ice
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A new twist on a old direction. In the previous work light was used to illuminate the form hidden within the cardboard corrogation. The resultant work has a ghost like quality. In this exploration Plexi-Glass is used to explore the interior and exterior domains of form. This work is a proof of concept for further sculptural exploration of digital fabrication techniques. The title is taken from the book written by Eldrige Cleaver.

Andrew Scott Installs Sculpture at King Arts Complex

2009-07-23T19:24:00.001-07:00

Savannah College of Art and Design News Center Scott installs sculpture at arts complex

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