| Seneca Proposals
support materials stan krzyzanowski - 2006
residency A residency at Seneca would involve frequent trips to the campus to investigate and capture images to be processed into time lapse video sequences. A simple sequence (see below) provides an example, taken at the Seneca campus on June 15, 2006 from inside the Information Commons of the Quinlan Building. Samples of sequences from past projects are also shown below. | Quinlan Building - I took this sequence (the camera runs automatically) while measuring walls for the wood slice installation proposal below. Interval - This is an extensive archive of time-lapse sequences presented as an online project hosted by VTape and launched in the spring of 2005. A sampler of sequences is provided in the support materials for the Interval project. New Time-Lapse Sequences - these are assembled from more recent sequences taken since the Interval project. Cone Clock - is a sculpture that was supplemented with time-lapse sequencing as part of the proposal stage for eventual inclusion in a gallery exhibit. | |
| wood slice installation with animation (new work) | I propose to make a wall panel (or two) made up of wood slices cut from a log and arranged in a regular or sequential order. Decisions about arrangement and size of the slicing will be determined in response to logs available at the time of cutting. I typically make use of trees cut down by the City of Toronto as part of their tree management program - consequently, log type and availability is always uncertain. Sample images below use existing panels to simulate possibilities - the final work will appear different from those shown. Click images to enlarge. Slices will be photographed prior to panel assembly to be used in an animation, which could also accompany the final work. I propose to build the panel(s) for the Information Commons in the Quinlan Building on the floating wall above the large open space. Both sides of the wall provide opportunities for panels. Samples below show these possibilities. Two are on the Information Commons side of the wall and measure approximately 306"x 39" and 228" x 80". A smaller panel under the stairs on the corridor side of the wall (as shown below and measuring approximately 192" x 24") could be the extent of the proposed work, or could be made in addition to, and complementing, a larger work on the other side of the wall. A flat-screen monitor plays the wood slice animation. 
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| eleven trees installation (existing work) | This work is made up of materials processed from eleven hemlock trees, together with the documentation of that process in photographic and written journals. The trees were removed from a cottage property in the Haliburton Highlands area of southern Ontario. The work is made up of the materials harvested from eleven hemlock trees:
- eleven tree stems, bark removed
- several bundles of bark strips, bound by bark strips
- several bundles of branches
- several loose pieces of large bark chips
- a large amount of needles Images below show, on the left, a simulated view of one possible configuration for hanging eleven trees on the Seneca campus, and on the right, a detail of the hemlock needles. The installation below shows tree stems, bark bundles and mounted text panels. Also shown is a horizontal exhibit case, filled with needles spanning the wall. Not shown are the mounted photographs, which could be hung on adjacent walls and at various levels of the atrium. NOTE: This is a simulation of one possible installation arrangement. Art work is not shown to exact scale. |
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