Brice Marden

The straight line, angular, graph-like nature of this piece is really striking. Despite the clear lines, it is still muddied and clogged with ink throughout. I can use this to analyse the photos I took of the lawnmower engine, highlighting its lines, channels and components. This straight-line, boundary-restricted piece reflects the habitual, limited movement of the life of a lawnmower. I might also use the oil that I collected, to draw over the lines I already will make, responding to the blotched effect of the ink Marden used.

Starting Photographs

Marden-Like Analysis

Using the retrieved engine oil, I decided to recreate the blotched appearance of Marsden’s piece over the existing defined lines. We will come back to investigating the oil later in Chapter 4;

Jeff Wall: Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’

This piece caught my eye, due to the collation of separate images into one. Wall used the superimposed grid to help guide where he should attach the individual sheets of paper being carried by the wind. The human subjects are in fact actors that he photographed and cut and pasted into the image. The idea of selecting a certain subject of an image to use in a different context is what I intend to do with the above tracings of the dominant lines throughout the engine photos; trace a section in Creo and recreate the part virtually.

Initial Creo Models

Screenshots of process;

Etienne-Jules Marey

Engine Oil Path Tracing

I took a generic 2D image of a typical engine oil path and used Blender to trace it. This tracing was then used as a path for camera which would follow it, giving me a basis for camera movement around a subject.