Physics-natural projections- Jiyeon Song

"...when a person learns through insight or 'aha' the information is better remembered.”
(Auble, Franks, & Soraci, 1979)

The One Day Poem Pavilion uses the sun to reveal lines of text in a poem one stanza at a time.
Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion's surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which-during specific times of the year-transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice. The poem is about life being finite and the artist describes his work as breaking away from the fast paced world of the internet.
This work has so many thing i like in it, the revealing and concelaing on the text, and this all happens just with the aid of the SUN its so cool. It happens over about a 7hour period so you have time to contemplate each line of the text. The speed of the revealing and concealing element of my work is something I am having trouble deciding on because it directly effects the relational aspect of the work. The poem isn't really interactive in a relational sense apart from being able to walk through it and block shadows, it focuses more on the experience of natural phenomena in architecture rather than digital technology. Using natural elements as part of the wprk is hugely sucessful for me, Olafur Eliasson also naturally occuring phenomena and he's my favourite. I love anything that incorperates art and science/maths; computers, chaos theory, sacred geometry, physics, chemistry etc etc. I think the poem is a little cliche from what pictures i have seen of it but it does work excellently with the sculpture and reading the artists statement I can see how the poem inspired his work. Just one more thing, i really like pixellation, evidence that the computer had a hand in making something (because most of the time you can't tell). The projector i used previously added a degre of pixellation to the projected image which i thought worked really well and i liked the documentation i took of it.

Go to the link at the top of the page and read more into how he made it and see some of his research it is well worth while.