Design Journal IV - IN PROCESS

The work that I have prepared for Monday, February 24, 2014, is based off of the body analysis I have done, which is a series of movements with the goal of sitting/laying down. For my series of movement, I decided to do a pose known as the "pigeon pose". This pose is often done in yoga. When I was doing my analytic drawing, I was most compelled by my spinal movement and the angles created by my legs. I incorporated the two ideas into my 3-D model. The purpose of the 3-D model is to create voids and solids based off of an analytic drawing and to analyze the thresholds created. The steps I took in doing so are as followed:

1. Taking two analytic drawings from my "pigeon pose" (one of the spine and left leg, which does not move from it's spot all throughout but does move and shape dependent on the right leg, and the other of the spine and right leg) , I had the spinal movements facing each other from both sides of the cuboid and extended the lines to create an angle in which each frame of spinal movement creates. As you can see, it creates a diamond like shape with levels in between, but upon extruding this into the cuboid, a part of it is cut off.
2. Separating each frame in the series of body movements, I took each one and placed them in the corresponding level of angles. The spine is aligned flat on where the angle is formed. The leg lines are then extended to the edge of the cuboid and then extruded downwards until it's hits the next angle level. This is done all throughout. From the top, you can see the angles my legs form and how they move through each level.
3. The voids that I chose to cut out are the openings created my legs. Otherwise, everything else is solid.

From this model, some of the most intriguing moments are the thresholds (voids/ openings) created by my legs. They vary in size and in some levels we can see through the model, while in others we can see the defined lines of the solid behind the threshold.  Another moment is the levels created by the spine. The spacings created by the levels are not uniform and in accordance to spinal movement it shows time and angles.