Initial brainstorm for project 1

 constuction based on flat planes::: Nature of humanity (before salvation)

Key concept: (starting with the assumption that) on a fundamental level, we are completely disconnected from the environment, we are inherently sinful by nature.(note the difference from evil and sinful)

relating back to the week 1 class with reference to the way that we build.. ie minimal materials for construction. Discussion towards the nature of western society.

Theorists such as michael focult built their theory of society under the assumption that humanity is inherently good. From my christian background I intend to explore the nature of humanity that it is not. And explore this through the use of materials and the human form to create a discussion on our connection to environment and the spaces we create.

Materials may be of natural and processed nature to support the concept:

timber

geometic shapes (to parallel our organic form yet disconnection from it. )

What this artwork is about is our struggle between our inner consiousness our spirit and soul, with the terrestrial prison that is out flesh.

Have you really just NEEDED something. Craved something so badly, and it didnt make any sense.

This is the struggle we have with our flesh. But sometimes this NEED goes beyond just physical satisfaction.

Light and timber fabrication...

tension between the light and the constructed... this play between the light and the physical form parallels our own struggles with our flesh.

Materiality

The timber/geometric just as we are organic our physicality is disperate from nature

The form/materiality will mirror the timber frame of houses, the bare minimum of materials, form ply, structural pine, screws, nails and metal ribbon.

posture

the figure is positioned in anguish... desperate to free itself.. hiuddled in the featle position ?

The Conflict within Us

14We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.  15I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.  16Since what I do is what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right.  17So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me.  18I know that good does not live in me — that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.  19I don't do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.  20If I do what I don't want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.

21So I find that this law is at work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.  22My inner being delights in the law of God.  23But I see a different law at work in my body — a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.  24What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death?  25Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ!

This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.