Waterman

ТЕКСТ

Визуализация воды и человека. Вода:
Вовне, в ~
Не-воды и не-человека тоже, потому что:
Материя воды ускользает от словесного «water»
Образ человека мной не прочитывается.


TEXT

Visualization of water and human. Water: out/in
Side ~
Non-water and non-human too, because:
The matter of water eludes the verbal "water"
The guise of the human cannot be read by me.

Water sculptures

Water is a powerful source and metaphor in terms of both creative and destructive forces of our planet. Water is like an abstract painter creating the slow-motion visual history of the world transformation by drawing unique patterns on surfaces it interacts with.

These water-fluid imitation sculptures are covered with different surfaces textures, which were somehow changed under the influence of prolonged impact of water on them. Among them are asphalt, granite, tin, plaster, mud, iron and stone.

Imminent Call

Previously the surpassing powers were explicitly symbolized by mythic images of gods and heroes, be it the cataclysmic potential of Neptune, benevolent strength of Zeus, or courage of hero Samson subduing the lion. The fountain complexes of Peterhof still bear such images as an integral part of its symbolic and aesthetic constitution. In the modern world—often called too soon a disenchanted one—these powers are imminent and implicit in the technology surrounding us. Technology mediates our access to them. One call can set in motion forces powerful enough to stop a natural cataclysm or to ignite an artificial one.

Sometimes, under the inundating need, such a call to higher powers becomes imminent. And when calamity approaches, we still appeal to them, whatever form they're disguised in, and never mind the interface we call through.

This virtual object combines 2 artifacts encountered during the project week of Water Machineries. First, an emergency call box from the Saint Petersburg dam complex that, if used, starts the closure of the dam, and so an appropriate call with it can save the city. It was modeled from its photos. Second, a bas-relief from the original fountain complex in Peterhof that depicts, it seems, an image of Neptune. It was 3d-scanned in the Museum of Fontain Craft in Peterhof. The hybrid sculpture symbolizes the relation we sometimes have with technology, the hopes that we put into them.

To create Audio composition, the following were prerecorded: the sound of immersion in the water of the Gulf of Finland near the Laskovy beach and the sound of blows on the manhole cover of a sewer well in the same area.

The audio work refers to the idea of a transition to another world, a mysterious watery kingdom, from under the thickness of which the muffled sounds of conversations and terrestrial life can be heard.

Force source

The fountain system in Peterhof is considered as a high achievement of engineering. Water is supplied to the fountains through a 20 km long system of channels, and the water pressure in the fountains is achieved by narrowing the pipes (without pumps).
During the Water machineries workshop, I was inspired by the story of the Peterhof fountains and decided to dedicate my work to this phenomenon in the history of St. Petersburg.
The image of the fountain nozzle is central in my work. The nature, the strength and the sound of the water jet completely depends on the shape of the nozzle. That is why the nozzle is the most important element in the fountain structure, and only the master could cast it (apprentices were not allowed to do this work).
The final object is a 3D model containing of nozzles, "a fountain without a fountain", which is located on the edge of land and water, and its invisible jets are the breath of the city, on the one hand, and the breath of the river, on the other.
The textures on the nozzles are a collage of photos taken during the field research of the Water machineries workshop.

White Rabbit
I was amazed and at the descriptions, stories about of the the aftermath city during of the the natural floods. of ideaI want to propose figures of hares as an Art object for digita space.The prototype is a well-known monument in St. Petersburg.Its history is also associated with floods in this city. According to legend, a hare, fleeing from the flood,jumped on the boot of Peter I, immediately when he went ashore from a boat moored to the island. On the island itself there was an unprecedented number of hares. After this incident, Peter I began to call the Hare Island.

I would have like luminous to propose eyes to, which make from some side will resemble a lighthouse (symbol of hope). But at the same time due to their combination with a living object, they wil aadd anxiety to the exposure, recalling the fragility of the balance in the world.
Musical accompaniment: ambient combined with the sounds of waves.