Shannon Slane: Pepakura Pig

This is a work in progress photo of Shannon Slane's pig model that was created using pepakura. She plans to seal the model with epoxy. I anxiously await the completion of this project. Shannon is a SCPT 250/450 alum. We can thank her for the craft foam discovery and for her wonerful work "Factory".

Shannon Slane:Connected

Connected. Shannon Slane. CNC milled foam, gesso, iron pipes. 2010.

Shannon Slane incorporated CNC milled foam relief elements into this sculptural composition "Connected". The reliefs were created using the heightfield surface displacements in Rhino. The greyscale images were processed in photoshop. It's nice to see this come together in its completed form. This is yet another example of how digital fabrication can be combined and seamlessly integrated into tradiional sculptural processes. To view videos of the elements in progress on the mill visit my youtube channel andrewfscott. They are entitled "crybaby' and cow. A big thank you goes out to Bob Delli Bovi for his help in a pinch this summer.

Shannon Slane: Factory Week 9

2/28/2010. factory in progress.

Shannon Slane: Factory

The 400 level section of the Digital Application in Sculpture class I am taking with Andrew Scott has been challenging as well as rewarding for me. I am an artist to whom freedom is a bit daunting; coming from a design background had trained my brain a little but (I didn't say brainwash!) and because of this I find it much easier to respond to a structured assignment, to problem solve, rather than to have the freedom to do anything. Freedom to use expensive machines to produce anything I please is exhilarating, but to the anxiety prone perhaps, it has been difficult to begin to commit to any one idea--there are just so many.

I decided to create a cow in rhino, which I will serial stack using cardboard, and then cover in(second hand) leather. The pole which runs along the top of it will have several smaller cows running through it as if in an assembly line, being moved slowly and individually towards their doom, and the dinner table. However all these cows, as well as the structure they're inside, look exactly the same. They are of and for each other - the meat industry genetically engineers cattle, and they feed cattle parts of other deceased cattle so they'll breed more cattle... there is a cycle of life that is completely overseen and controlled by another species. This is the basis of my work, rather than some impassioned plea for my audience to turn into happy vegetarians (I am one), I wish that people are reflective upon the downright creepy industry that has grown out of the older model, or concept, of the happy and bountiful farm.


In addition to my 3D modeling work, I have been continuing to vacumform things with craft foam, as well as vinyl. I've been concentrating on cows, only because I am working with this concept otherwise. However, I was eating a salad for lunch the last time I was working and had an "ah-ha!" moment while staring mindlessly into my bowl. I took out a piece of lettuce, vacumformed that, and got perhaps the most successful result of all my experimentation that day. I also played around a little bit with space imagery, pulling a "cast" of two astronauts holding the hands of Private Ham, the chimpanzee who was shot into space during the early days of space flight. I could write for hours on how grossly horrible THAT is, but following my rule of bitching about one cause at a time has always served me well.

- Shannon Slane, SCAD Sculpture, 2010

fishies

Hi all!


Here is what I am currently working on in digifab class. I wanted to do a three dimensional repeat pattern, and have chosen an image of a school of fish to repeat out into a pattern.

I'm going to make a block of fish:
and then vacumform that block, so I have many panels of the same form. I will then mount them all on a wall, creating a large pattern.


I hope to make this design red by experimenting with vacuumingforming techniques and materials. I want to try to vacuumform pieces of soft red felt between two sheets of plastic, which may melt, but may also retain some fibrous quality, which is what I'm after. I'm also going to experiment with wool roving between plastic.
If this does not work out, I plan to paint the back of clear vacumformed plastic red.

The design is red to incite in the viewer thoughts of blood. Although completely icky, that will hopefully lead an audience to reflect on the rampant overfishing of the ocean, which will slowly but surely lead to humanity's own demise. The fish are crashing into each other which is a combative gesture that reflects the combative nature of humans, especially now that we are, as a species, overpopulated... As numerous and compact as fish in a school.

- Shannon Slane