Theories From Iota Island

Iota on the Spools

Iota Island Alone

Incessant Untangleing

Me, Kathryn, Iota and Bokeh

It took Jake, kathryn and me five and a half hours to install the Iota on the Island. The grass and herbs had been strimmed the day before, and the glorious sun was shining. We worked long and hard, and ended up with the spiritual epiphany cross obscure equation that is `Iota Island`. Jake isn`t in the picures, as when he wasn`t up and down the ladder, he was taking these and hundreds more (literally). There is a link below to an animation of the whole five and a half hours, and photos will be up on my Flickr account. Thank you Katherine and Jake from the bottom of all my Iotas!

It wasn`t easy deciding how to hang the 13 x 20 metre strings. I felt wary about formal arrangement,

but didn`t want them to become a formless tangled mass. That was a practicle rather than aesthetic concern. In the end we begun in a tree, and continued without too much planning. ( Like Pascals universe with it`s centre every where and its circumference nowhere). From the land , the installation looks a bit triangular. Infact there are different plains and linear formations that are really only visable when in the midst of it all. We attempted a parabolic curve, and some curved Euclidian plains. These weren`t so sucessfull. It`s not possible to express very precise geometric formation without equally precise measurement and acurate installation. As we were using trees as verticles, and had to weave in and out of Gunnera and brances, and incorporate a beautiful deserted duck house , the lines went where we could put them. 20 meteres is longer than you can imagine!

The opening went well. Artists showed in and out doors, there was a vast ammount of picnicing and my friends came. Hurrah! The last day is Saturday, and Jake hopes to do some filming in the sun shine that the Met. office have promised us. Watch this blog for floating Iota films. I can`t wait.

Good not to look at rotating yellow wormholes for a few days.

Photos of Iota Island...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise/sets/72157616517661942/

Doing the Crochet Cosmic Twist

Worm Turning #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_fqVSQZpI&feature=PlayList&p=DCCDDD7A5F96A3C8&index=11

Click on the above link to see the film.

Putting the tiny crocheting hands into the `Wormhole` adds an element of real and obvious mechanical movement to the digitaly edited rotating crochet.The `Wormhole` has a constant and incessant direction which is is robotic and inorganic, as well as hypnotic and compelling. The small arachnid movement of the hands releaves some of the visual tension. They also create a focal point at the centre of the hole, drawing your attention inwards, and creating an interesting optical illusion.

`They poor the space into a larger space, which is infinity`

Mario Merz 1990.

`Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic`.

Arthur C. Clarke.

Film editing is visual magic- hey presto!

Making Iota Island

Time lapse animation of the installation at Rhod in Drefelin.

Another wormhole rotating

Click here to see another wormhole rotating.

Can I Have Space Time Alone?

Click here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_fqVSQZpI

Watch the wormhole turn. Don`t fall in. You`ll end up crochet.

Being comsummed by a supermassive yellow hole.
Sorry.I wiped this picture off the blog by accident. Here it is again.

Videos from Tuesdays webcast - Music to Crochet to

A couple of extracts from the webcast are on Phynodereefilms here.

If you get into the loops the full length versions can be found in the 'webcasts from the studio' set, through the on demand function of the player here.