Exhibition

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artiface/artifact

got a bit unwieldy with the focal depth.

[Testing..testing..]

The wrist of St. Francis is the first location/exercise for the project. It perhaps is the beginning investigation about constructing an architecture that inhabits a site, extends myths, and creates new meaning and narratives.

In medicine, a site is a part of the body that is of interest, perhaps related to some trauma, deficincy, or perhaps hypertrophy. By re-interpreting St. Francis' holy stigmata wounds as surgical openings, the wrist is viewed in a medical sense as a site. The architecture that inhabits this site attempts to surgically calibrate and tune the site conditions. Here, the raw and inert material is transformed into an artifact. The site is calibrated as a "Slow-Twitch" site, that responds at the rate of healing and bone grafts.

St. Francis pt II

test renders---looks too plastic



[ top of wrist, tendon tension stage I]


[wrist development stage, one, bone graft prep/tension]
[wrist development stage II, bone graft ]
So, my computer crashed but here are some digi-sketches of what i've been doing.
anatomically modeling a hand with all the bones, tendons, muscles, blood vessels...well, it was tedious and took a long time, but it looks cool. St. Francis' holy wound is transformed into a surgical opening. The opening provides direct access to the wrist and begins
to graft the 7 carpals together into the shape of a scarab. [elevation, stage one]
The ancient egyptians thought the the scarab was holy and had a direct relationship to the sun. Because of this, they were associated with rejuvination and ressurection, as the sun died and reappeared the following day.

The bone scarab is a semi-living deity constructed of living material. Once completed the architecture then begins to mummify the bony mass, pulling the tendons and tissue close to wrap and preserve the bone artifact.