Carousel Maquette

Six sided

Six sided

Five sided

Five sided

Hi Wanda, Magdy and Fiona,

great to see y'all yesterday!

Here are some pics, this is a scale model at 1:10 (Wanda I must have have been inspired by your maquetting - although this is much dodgier than your gorgeous smicko maquettes!)

The height here is 2m, about the height of a doorway, and the small panels work out at approx. 800mm wide x 660mm high. For a five sided piece the diameter is about 1.4m, for a 6 sided piece the diameter is 1.8m. We can make it a bit smaller, but I think you want it tall enough so that tall people can't see inside, what do you think? and it there is a roof over it at some stage you don't want people bumping their heads on it . . .

I have photographed them from viewing height to give a sense of the piece from that angle.

Trace

themes . . .

oops forgot to add the themes that we discussed . . revolution, transformation, metamorphosis, change . . and Fiona added Water, which is the other theme of the Festival (Light and Water), with some very cool sound ideas of revolving sprinklers (plus working with the rotisserie motor sound - love it!)

Just thinking about all that, water and transformation could be interesting, water being a necessary ingredient to life; it brings about transformation in a landscape, both in terms of bringing life and in shaping landforms; it is itself transformed into different states (liquid, ice, steam) . . etc etc. . .

look what I found on the web!

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4967952