Helen Shaw Portfolio

NATURA FEMINAE

A CLOSER READ THE INVISIBLE ENVELOPE

ENABLING TRANSPARENCY

LEGACY WALL

ALAFI MINERAL COLLECTION

Natura Feminae

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

GRADUATE STUDIO PROJECT

Role: Researcher, developer, designer –

Research, writing, site survey, graphic design, 3D modeling, renderings, documentation

Section 3

AXONOMETRIC VIEW OF GALLERY

Natura Feminae was developed, researched and designed by

Section 2

Helen Shaw Section 1

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION 2

Motion sensor activated firefly lights, monolithic panels, ebonized wood cases with brass inlay

SECTION 2

Lucy Say artwork and super-graphics of illustrations

INTRODUCTION

TO SECTION 3

Immersive environment with soundscape and media

PRELIMINARY RESEARCH

Scientific illustrations made by women

IMAGE RESEARCH AND INSPIRATION

Red Rose Girls, Camera and Lens Club

MATERIALS/ LOOK AND FEEL

Organic shapes, living wall, fireflies, metal

A Closer read

Science History Institute

LIBRARY MATERIALS DISPLAY

Role: Freelance designer –

Site survey, graphic design, installation coordination

“A CLOSER READ” SERIES IN SITU

Blood and Fire graphics, labels and artifacts

ARTIFACTS

IN SITU WITH LABELS

INSPIRATION FOR TEXTURE AND COLOR

19th century occult books, rich greens, gold inlay

Vinyl mural to wrap two faces of a column. Dashed line indicates the outside corner of the column. Top edge of the right side of the graphic to be fush with the underside of the soft.

Wrapped 6mm thick Sintra panel with Sintra cleat and lower spacer

Placement: top edge to be 11.5” below the soft

blood and fire

What if you didn’t know that blood circulates through the body? Would you be able to fgure it out by examining the organs of animals or humans? What if for more than 1,000 years the prevailing understanding of the body’s organs assumed that blood didn’t circulate, until one day someone showed that it did? What questions would that raise for you?

When William Harvey published his discovery of the true function of the heart and of the circulation of the blood in animals in 1628, shattered an understanding of human physiology dating back to

Curated by James Voelkel

why

blood circulates became

breathtaking research program

pneumatics, chemistry,

physiology

a close-knit group

English doctors, anatomists, and natural philosophers during the 1650s and 1660s. Thoroughly experimental and informed by a new scientif philosophy that matter was made up of imperceptibly tiny and interacting particles, this research and debate took them to the brink of discovering oxygen. The element wouldn’t be identifed for another 100 years, but their work demonstrated the immense potential of the new experimental science.

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31” 2” 30 5/8” 35 3/4” 69 1/2” 10 5/8” 80 1/8” 2” W reveal Vinyl mural 5 3/4” H soft

White base molding

The invisible envelope MFA Thesis

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

Gallery with interactive and soundscape

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Stabat Mater layered with Rückert poem, naturescape

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Wave

SOUNDSCAPE DIAGRAM

VISITOR FLOW DIAGRAM

Interventions to be placed throughout the museum

D i a g r a m in dic at in g existing v i s i t o r fl o w D i a g r a m in dic at in g a n t i c ipat e d v i s i t o r fl o w Wooden acoustic paneling Quad speakers in upper corners Interpretive touchscreen providing interpretation of content Dark blue wall color used to create intimate environment