This is just a few words, describing my opinions of design, space and viewing.
The Night City.
Have you ever noticed how much London changes at night?
Under sunlight, we see the bright, lively capital, with office workers in suits, and tourists clutching their cameras.
But after the sunset, the city is not going to sleep. The neon lights are flashing everywhere, the street lamps don’t let the pitch-black darkness occupy the corners.
It all creates an illusion that the city never falls asleep.
The thing I find the most captivating is the difference between daytime and nighttime.
Passing on the streets in broad daylight, you wouldn’t believe that it’s the same building you saw last evening.
Everything can change dramatically, when the light is used thoughtfully.
The point of view and the position of viewer.
I was always fascinated by the fact, that the understanding of space and objects is so vulnerable.
Sometimes shifting the viewpoint will change the whole scenario in front of us.
The things that were hidden become obvious, the meaningless shapes and constructions create an image that is hard to miss.
The bolder the idea is, the more mesmerizing effect it will create.
With the lights and shadows, with contrast colours, with different positions and attentively arranged space we can astonish, surprise, amaze and spark the interest in people.
Construction, Modelling.
Since I have never experienced it before coming to London, I find model-making very interesting and helpful.
While creating outcomes or just considering the new idea, it is easier for me to make a small sketch model, rather than thinking hours whether it will work or not.
When it comes to technical drawings, I imagine the object pretty much in it’s 3 dimenthional form, so without the existing scale model, that you can touch and turn and look around at, it’s more like a challenge for me.
In the workshop facilities we can experiment with almost everything, starting from materials to scale and form.
This way we can almost immediatly see, which idea will work better.
Anish Kapoor - Shooting Into The Corner
The first time I saw this installation was back in Autumn of 2009. And I still cannot forget it.
I believe that there’s no such thing as ignorance when it comes to Art.
It simply cannot be, that people feel or think nothing of the piece of art.
One way or another - you either like it or hate it, excited by it or disturbed, glad to see it or mad because you spent your precious time.
Art brings the memories and emotions out of us.
And it doesn’t matter, if it’s not a positive reaction. A negative respond is still a respond, a negative answer is an answer.
This is the purpose of Art - make people respond to it, grasp them, and don’t let them forget it.
Distance and Shape.
How do you see the space?
While looking at object or structure or any building, do you think how it was built, how exactly this form was created, how perfectly it fits in the surroundings?
Once I came to conclusion that every image, building, structure, landscape and even person’s signature could be presented as a combination of geometric forms and shapes.
I find them quite alluring, and at the same time easy and enjoyable, to use and experiment with.
Parallelism, Perspective, Order, Rhythm.
Isn’t it engrossing how usual objects look so different from another angle?
It’s not as much about the point of view, as it is about simple parameters of space.
Or more exactly, how we see and describe the distance and location - length, width, breadth, depth - easy to reach, isolated, far away, too close to see the full image.
It can be just the usual terms for photography.
However, I started looking at objects and space itself differently, trying to find something that makes this particular place unique, only one of a kind, with it’s own atmosphere and stories to discover.
Installation, Temporary and Conceptual.
I used to think that installation is a fixed, frozen in time, single moment, that the artist turned into shape of sculpture.
Apparently, the installation’s contents and ways of creation are innumerable.
Light, shadows, forms, sound, noise, movement, interpretation, interaction, use of materials and objects in unusual, extraordinaly, non-suitable way.
The arrangment of the place, and the creation of space itself.
The only thing that needs to be in common for all components of the installation is to have the same concept, idea, or be in harmonic contrast.
Forward Motion, and Still Silence.
Despite being a capital, London gives this somehow relaxing and calming feeling, which I still couldn’t find in any other countries I visited.
Even when you stand in the middle of the road, waiting for the traffic lights to change, you feel the rush of life around you - the heat of cars passing by, the noise the engines produces, the wind blowing;
You see the people not speeding up, but just living, enjoying and taking their time.
As I stop sometimes, too occupied with thoughts to mind what exactly stood in my way, I turn around, captivated by the rush and serenity of the place I was in, trying to memorise how the world looked at that exact moment.
Architecture.
For me, the architecture is separated into different parts, but still exists as an entity.
Briefly, I’m looking how it was made and where, paying more attention to finding out, what differ this building from others.
Trying to find out what makes the small streets feel more comfartable than the whole big park;
How the great amount of the office buildings, shopping centres, family houses and single flats, the museums, the parks, lakes, the river and the roads create the whole city;
And how they still are being separated into the areas of activities.
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