Nancy Agati www.nancyagati.com
Nancy Agati, map with riverview
Title: Lumen
Virtual Objects: 5 circular discs 75′diameter x 4′ width
Placement: over Schuylkill River from Spring Garden St. bridge to just below Boathouse Row
Nancy Agati, Lumen (Layars view)
Description: Drawing, mark making, and defining pattern or movement are essential elements to my work. Much of the sculpture and installation work that I have produced has begun with drawing. I am interested in the linear quality of vines and branches that climb and entangle trees, crawl along telephone wire or scale across walls. In recent works I have manipulated collected vines and branches as a form of drawing material, combining drawing and sculpture in a linear manner.
Based on a previous project, I have reconstructed a small circular object within a small wooden hoop. The hoop holds an array of twisted willow branches connected to its interior edge that crisscross through the circle. The front of the circle, covered with a taut piece of translucent vellum, projects light and displays the silhouette lines of the branches within.
Nancy Agati, real object
To accomplish the shift in light and drawing for the virtual object, I shot several images of the front of the actual object throughout the course of a day. These 5 slightly different views ( line drawings) will exist as the front side of each (5) of the discs.
Nancy Agati, VPAP Philadelphia, front view
The reverse images for each disc were generated from photos taken of the flow of water from the Schuylkill River. I envision the piece as a series of large cylindrical discs hovering perpendicular to the ground (or river) and appearing in a linear sequence in space.
Nancy Agati, VPAP Philadelphia, back view
The series of circular forms with which these lines exist conjures ideas of sight not only in their shape, but as a suggestion of a lens, scope, or viewfinder. The linear images captured throughout the day were created by the angle, direction and intensity of the daylight. The lines that exist on the surface could not have existed without light but no longer appear as merely branches. The images have become abstract drawings, transformed from branches or water, in to vein-like structures to cellular activity and back again to their origin. In this sense the piece becomes virtual not only in its objects’ presence but also through the illumination of the observed image that exists within it.
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