Object 02

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Magdalene (contempt) Magdalene (regrets)
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Work-in-progress collage of Object 02: photogrammetry scans of a seated woman clutching a skull, from broken raw meshes to a resculpted red clay figure signed AU
  1. I think the most meaningful sculpture of MaryMagdalene to me is the one by Antonio Canova. I had the good fortune to see this sculpture in person in Genoa when I was in town for the Game Happens festival last year. It was in the Palazzo Bianco.
  2. 1. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/neo-classicism/a/canova-repentent-magdalene
  3. the cool thing about 3d capture is it can allow you to capture the form and take away color. it becomes a lot easier to see whats going on in a sculpture. 3d capture takes away age even takes away context to a certain extent. I find it becomes a lot easier to figure out what it is that is attracting me to a certain object.
    1. In this case the arms which fall down guiding ones eye along with her gaze. to the cross. to the skull.
  4. 3d capture is a collaboration between me and a lot of machines. my choices. the camera. the algorithm.
  5. searching for the digital to leave it's mark on the surface... don't feel I'm there yet. Not about polygons but about just the way the object gets passed from program to program.
    1. The finishing takes away from the raw garbled feeling and it loses something when it loses the digital detritus. Yet, I do not want to just print the fragments, unless they have meaning. I feel characters should be whole. My work is not about destruction, and it is not about this skin of the surface.
    1. there is one fragment I do want to work with ZBrush fragment for the Magdalene: a single bent arm rising from the elbow, its hand gripping a skull whose jaw dissolves into the fingers
  6. I find myself thinking like Rodin, of bodies in motion as sculpture, not a frozen moment of action but a phase the body is going through on the way to becoming something else. If anything the pose must be even more exaggerated.
  7. While I find the images resonating with me strongly I am a modern woman and I was rasied how I was raised. It is very hard to take these symbols at face value.
  8. Why is the Magdalene such an over-used symbol of feminine piety? Why the confusion of her historical significance as Christ's first disciple and that of a prostitute? Clearly she represents female power and the struggle to contain it. But also a symbol of for women to consider their lives, to focus and reflect. And in that knowing of self, comes power, comes freedom of spirit, comes redemption.
  9. I guess I am not Penitent, not sorry
  10. I can consider being sorry
  11. Triptych of skull self-portraits: cheek pressed to the plastic skull; regarding it at arm's length; holding it up as a second face over her own
Two 3D scans side by side: dark-clay double portrait of the artist facing herself, skull in hand — and a white version, the skull held up where the face should be

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