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A location with a clear view of the sky was necessary for maximum impact of the oculus.
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In a place like this one, the viewer is likely already in a contemplative mood, ready to experience some poetry.
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View from the top of the sculpture, including the blue oculus.
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View from inside the sculpture. From the perspective of someone standing inside of it, the poem begins at the lower left and spirals it's way to the top.
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My first sketch established the shape and general scale of the sculpture, but I envisioned the poem being written on a ribbon to be threaded through the bars of the cage.
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After the first sketch, I created a quick paper mockup, this time intending for the words of the poem to be a structural element of their own instead of simply written on a ribbon.
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My technical drawing, providing the plans for building the mockup. The scale is 1:1 to the size I built it at, but one inch in the sketch represents one foot in the hypothetical "real life" sculpture.
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My technical drawings of the top of the sculpture, and how the words of the poem itself would be cut and applied.
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Process work of the mockup, using strips of paper to estimate where the text would go.
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Close up of in-progress mockup; the text was laser cut from card stock and applied to the frame of the structure with glue; once it was fully dry the whole structure was spray painted white.