Oregon Art Beat; #1012; Julian Voss-Andreae

The idea for this project came when I went with my kids to Starbucks and they shared one vanilla milk and so they asked for those big transparent cups in the port of vanilla milk in there and then they took a straw and made huge amounts of bubbles and they looked so neat and at that point I kind of knew that this was the kind of three -dimensional pattern I was after, the kind of inter -connected network idea, like a brain or like many things in nature this froth and foam all over the place like from the universe scale to the tiniest microorganisms. So I read a lot about that and I'm working on different techniques to kind of make this kind of foam type of network and one approach is to do it in the real world by casting it in resin around water balloons. I hope to cast it in bronze somehow into molds of human shapes and the other approach is to basically to what

I'm doing now with the approach is to kind of get it into the computer and write stuff that allows me to model that and then be able to scale it up to any dimension I want. Okay you're just perfect before I move a little bit of this. The

physics and parapsychology, the brothers and sisters. So I was of course very interesting but turned out his daughter was equally interesting. The series is a half -size version of a sculpture called Quantum Man.

The idea of how it came about was that I asked myself the question, how would a human being look like if we were a quantum object, if you send little molecules or atoms you know through the vacuum you can measure their quantum properties. You can see them it's not only as particles but also as waves. For example go from two openings at once which sounds really weird but that's how the quantum world is. So mathematically you look at these things like a bit like this they consist of wave fronts which are perpendicular to their motion, to the direction of motion. So I can ask myself how would a human look like if we do this experiment with us inside and that's kind of the idea where it came from. I basically just made a walking human which is the most essential like motion for a human and rendered as a bunch of slices, equidistant plain slices to better represent those wave fronts. And it's interesting after I've done that I realized when you go

around that piece you know at a certain angle it totally disappears. It looks solid from the front or from the back but if you walk around it there's the one point where they all parallel to you and then suddenly it's gone and it kind of fits really well with this quantum idea depending on how you look at the same thing it can be a completely different story. What was the light building this? Well I went through many phases I started out with a styrofoam block 8 feet tall then I carved it then I took it apart made it made a steel model mild steel one out of it there was quantum in one which is now most like Washington and then I reassembly that took months and nights squeezing between trace that then I made a full scale three quarter inch plywood version and then I took photos of those slices and digitized it on the computer which took me forever because you had to do it by hand and then I was ready to make a laser cut version out of that so I could make an addition and I made four identical ones and they all sold now so they all over the place. I

want to see if it's in Switzerland. How did you plan for the I built the models and when I did what's at the plywood model stage I drilled through two slides at once where the connections will be so I had those as calibration it's key points of speaker to calibrate my slices with each other and then when I digitized it was a little bit off of course so I put there in the right spot that they would correspond for a pair of slices to that they share the same kind of hole pattern so it was all done by hands but on the computer ah

and rock Okay, thanks! And go, Okay.

Cool. Yeah. You know, I can... and go! Thank you! Kick's about to launch.

Let's move on. Let's go. Yeah. Yeah, you ready.

Yes. And you're like, I want to see it, you know. Yeah. Yeah.