MAAE Primary Research Hacking by Niamh Ni Chearbhaill

Coat with Sand or leave plain? See Pedestal Research Padlet in Secondary Research

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-09-05 14:44:19 UTC

Think about shape and appearance - if she could, would mother nature use our visual language to speak to us or hers? Putting something up on a pedestal has a lot of connotations - there is a lot of irony in that which I like - the fake rock on a formal pedestal at the beach, full of natural and unnatural things, is a good reflection of us and our love of nature but abuse of it at the same time. We don't genuinely care if we don't take action in our everyday... We put the wrong things on the pedestal, possessions, money, power, and then feel entitled to enjoy the nature we are destroying.

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-09-05 14:45:06 UTC

Colour Research

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-09-05 14:45:06 UTC

Texture Research

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-09-05 14:46:54 UTC

Audio Research - finding "electronic" sounds in nature - connecting to the circuit

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-09-05 15:09:10 UTC

Update, this did not pan out, went with the sounds of a day at the beach as a juxtaposition to the erosion and pollution on the shoreline - we enjoy it but don't take care of it.

Contact Mic on the way

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-09-05 15:10:37 UTC

IMMA Earth Rising Padlet

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-09-29 16:33:44 UTC

Sand covered pedestal

Wrapping the wire with scree

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 21:07:22 UTC

The scree was not sticking right, I ended up doing this for just one of the forms. It was my first time doing anything with scree or plaster, so it was all a learning process of trial and error.

Thinking about form

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 21:07:48 UTC

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 21:10:15 UTC

Speaker hammock

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 21:10:20 UTC

Thinking about stability

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 21:10:20 UTC

Thinking about curiosity...

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 21:12:13 UTC

Trying to take a selfie with a large structure :P

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 21:14:25 UTC

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 22:18:23 UTC

Some of my thoughts on what to make - it was time to go with organic shapes, not formal pedestals. I thought of doing something with barnacles, instead I ended up going with the rock shapes I've been seeing at my local shoreline.

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 22:18:23 UTC

Meshwork

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 22:18:23 UTC

Applying plaster of paris bandages

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-20 23:48:20 UTC

Symbolically helping to mend a broken environment

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-21 20:40:20 UTC

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-21 20:43:53 UTC

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-21 20:43:54 UTC

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-21 20:43:55 UTC

Go rock-pooling, find a movie :)

niamhnichearbhaill — 2024-11-21 20:47:45 UTC