Author: areach

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apps: moi and blender
Original music composed by Andrew Reach
app: waveform

I’ve been trying to get my head around the terribleness that is happening in our country. It’s frightening. Such cruelty. Such lawlessness. Such greed. Such racism, homophobia and hatred of the “other”. Such cravenness for power. Way too many adjectives to list that can’t describe this dystopian reality. I needed to create something for my sanity as a backstop, something for me to lean on that expresses the better nature of our humanity.
Forged with six MODEL CITIZENS, TOTEMELISK is inspired by ancient Egypt, the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest and Mesoamerican cultures. MODEL CITIZENS are sentinels that represent a world citizenry with democratic ideals that respect all peoples from every walk of life and care for the common good. The common good is a broad term that encompasses ensuring that everyone, regardless of economic status, religious affiliation or agnostic, gender, race, sexual orientation and disability and the entire spectrum of humanity too long to list, has access to clean air, clean water, nutrition, education, a livable wage, good working conditions, culture, a viable livable earth and most important the pursuit of happiness. MODEL CITIZENS have a common structure; 4 legs, a cubic body and a vertical pinnacle representing the spine. Within this common structure, is carved out different personas. We are all the same and all unique.” Our shared humanity is a beautiful thing to be celebrated, not torn down and to be pitted against one another.

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Apps: MOI, Blender and Waveform (for original music)

Forged from the sloping angles of a rhombohedron, titanium members weave together to form hash signs on its four sides and on top as social media weaves into the fabric of our technological times.  This symbol turns the data of billions of souls vying to be seen and heard into meta-data, categorizes it and makes it searchable;  to share joys, beauty, injustices, grief…. and so much more, elevating our humanity.  Yet, represented by the perfection of its titanium surface scarred by scratches, these forces of light are tempered by the forces of darkness by its use to tear down our humanity.  One can sit on its timber benches and reflect on this symbols’ meaning to them in their personal lives as the reflecting pools reflect its aqua color onto its surface.

CURVARUM I

My work evolves over time with a constant drive of its connection to architecture. The challenge is to merge mathematical aspects of tectonic systems into the constructed form and space hovering between arts and architecture, envisioning and making geometric structures and tectonic systems that blur their boundaries. Geometric structures, different kinds of architectures emerge that uncovers, discovers unexpected three-dimensional patterns, forms, and dynamics Creating complex geometric constructs engage simultaneously analytical and synthetic operations.

With CURVARUM I, undulating massing of syncopated modulations are supported by a concrete ‘spine’ and concrete columns. The module is constructed from a grid of circles (see last image in this post). Using modules is a tectonic approach to form making.

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