11_IN_Kodama_m&a:Maquetación 1
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Breathing Chaos (2004) Breathing Chaos was a temporal installation work in the Telic Gallery in Los Angeles. In the middle of the gallery sits a small table and a large plate. From this plate, black fluid grows into a pointed mountain with a surface multiplying into a myriad of smaller spikes, each swaying as if alive with a very sensitive chaos. Breathing Chaos—Movie (2004) A short film which is a same title of above mentioned installation, because this movie was screened in the same gallery at the same time. The theme of this movie is dynamic forces of nature, to suggest that life emerges from the expression of physical power. Themes include the chaos of fluidity, the order that results from it, and the symmetrical splendor born from indeterminable chaos. MorphoTower/Spiral Swirl (2006) and Morpho Tower (2006) For this work, I discovered a new technique called Ferrofluid Sculpture. This technique enables artists to create more dynamic sculptures with fluid materials. One electromagnet is used, with an extended iron core that is sculpted into a particular shape. The ferrofluid covers the sculpted surface of the three-dimensional iron shape. The movement of the spikes in the fluid is controlled dynamically on the surface by adjusting the power of the electromagnet.
Sculpture Garden, 2006-2008
The Morpho Tower series in 2006 was my first realization of a ferrofluid sculpture. A spiral tower stands on a plate that holds the ferrofluid. When the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened, spikes are generated in the bottom plate and they move upward,
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