The Julian Journal

The waffle continued... we begin cnc cutting and preparing to make our glass breakfast. milling on the machine in progress  It took a really long time to cut but everything went quite smoothly We then moved to the plaster room to fill the mold with wax  sadly we didn't plan to lube the foam before applying the wax so the mold was destroyed when we removed the wax positive. Then we lost our wax positive so... Back to CNC milling We used mineral oil as a release to make sure this time the positive could be removed I then casted the mold in plaster of paris here are the plaster positives YAY!

This is it. environmental eyewear Ice-wear by itself rendered on a Greenland backdrop exploded view of the "ice wear" Ice-wear on a 3D scanned bust of myself I'm planning on printing ice cube molds for the glasses in flexible 3D printer filament that would allow for easy releases when freezing water inside. I am also going to taper the front frame so it's even easier to remove. Also the arms of the glasses will be attached to the frame using cold water and a refreezing process, i may create a form of interlocking system to facilitate the union of the three parts. I hope to document this art piece outdoors, maybe by the Athabasca glacier in northern Alberta to highlight the issue of melting ice masses on Earth and the essential protection they provided us by deflecting the suns rays from warming our oceans or in this case protects our eyes from the same harmful rays of the sun as sun glasses.

Title: Home Medium/Media: Ficus Bonsai tree, vinyl, wire, coconut fiber and burlap installation. Year: 2017 Artist: Julian Zwack Artist Statement: “Home” is mixed media durational installation piece that allows us to perceive the world in which we live and question the relationship between humans and  our environment. The piece’s intent is to discuss that all human “spaces” we consider “places” or as a “home” (places we have an emotional attachment to) all fall under the umbrella of our planet. That all countries despite their differences, feuds and geographic location are interconnected in one system with wilderness. The piece also discusses ideas of mutual responsibility, the bonsai tree symbolising wilderness supports the countries on it’s leaves and hence provides life for all of humanity. While the burlap (used to plant/protect  trees) represents humanity responsibility to live sustainably and care for the planet. Together they demonstrate...

I began rethinking my eye-wear as I didn't really feel comfortable with the strength of my concept and decided it to tie in the concept with my research on the human perception of place and environmentalism. From that I came to the idea of representing our melting polar ice caps as glasses as ice masses that protect the planet from the suns rays using the white colour of snow and ice to reflect the suns rays much like sunglasses. I then imported images of Antarctica and Greenland with the pictureframe command and traced them with the control point curve traced map of Antarctica  traced map of Greenland  Here are the final outline I then extruded the curves to be implemented into the eyewear I then replaced the lenses of the glasses with the two ice covered land masses I then measured the smallest and largest widths of the nose bridge of my own glasses then implemented the measurements into the rhino sketch I then also translated th...

For my prototype I began in 2D sketching from my rhino file, though changing the arms i had originally planned by directly running them from the back of the round lenses in an effort to make the glasses look more designer"esque" and less goofy. I still currently want to pursue my concept of commenting on material culture and the ephemeral nature of apparel such as glasses. I then traced and layered cardboard to add thickness and create the form. I then glued the layers together with a glue stick. I then used the same process to create the nose bridge using only 2 cardboard layers. I rolled paper to create stretched cones to act as the arms of the glasses, also reminiscent of icicles. I then hot glued the arms to the frame  finished prototype I'm looking forward to feedback tomorrow and am looking at ideas of incorporating more references to ice and the cold into the design of the glasses.

 Two weeks ago we discussed our eye wear thumbnails and oddly enough the idea that got unanimous approval was my throwaway idea of ice cube glasses (#2) . In the discussion Bryan liked the car glass (#6.) which I was originally planning on taking to the second phase and may still do so in the future. Though the comments on my ice glasses had me reflect on this interesting concept of glasses as a preformative art piece that also play into the design of sunglasses, though in this case protecting one face from the heat of the sun rather than from it's UV rays. So to create these glasses i would need to make a rubber mold much like an ice cube tray that could be filled with water and frozen in a freezer or possibly dry ice because there is no freezer i know of at ACAD and i'm not sure if it would survive a cooler trip from home. I started thinking about how these things would realistically look like inspired by the classic aviator design with a large nose bridge t...

For our fabrication test me and Nancy first began to look at how we could create a mold from the foam to be used for glass casting as we are both involved in glass making at ACAD, Nancy in hot glass and me in glass casting. We then decide to play with the idea of creating food out of glass and settled with the food item of the waffle. we decided contemplated over square or round waffle ideas Here is a diagram of the waffle and all the accessories we plan to add onto the available space not covered by the waffle for the CNC template. Here we created the waffle model by rounding the corners of squares then lofting the squares to create a more organic real waffle look To create the blueberry we took a sphere then Boolean differenced to with a extruded star + added a small inner sphere. For the strawberry we revolved  a half strawberry silhouette creating a heart like shape, then a half strawberry.  ...