1.1 Lights, Camera…

These are the images I was unable to bring into class due to my studio site visit to Victoria, BC. My inspiration came from the arches of Islamic Temples and, specifically, Cordobas La Mezquita. The image of this temple is shown here with my shadows.

I suppose that when I was choosing the different shadows to use I thought about how the harsh light of the Islamic world would fall upon the abstraction I created. In the middle of the day the statue would be most clearly read through it's shadow while during the extreme parts of the day—dawn and dusk—the shadow would be elongated and elegant.

These images were created in SketchUp, hence the rather static and rather uninteresting shadow. I do not currently have FormZ installed on my computer which would have given me the ability to cast a much more interesting and varied set of shadows.