Elapse

It took me a while, but I managed to think of a title for the short series of films about the dioramas. Elapse felt appropriate, since most of the subjects of the dioramas that I want to do, involve the passage of time, or time's effect, it's similarity to 'time-lapse' is also pretty neat.  

But that's not as big a fish to fry as I've been making it. I do, however also have 3 sold ideas that I'm certain I want to make dioramas of. I'll go over each one here. 

The Pub.

Kind of something I only recently realised was quite a relevant idea. In recent years, pubs in Britain have been seeing a decline in business , and thus, have been shutting down, maybe not as much in Farnham, mind you. But it's a classic part of Britain, and their closing, often means the loss of some beautiful architecture and interior design, that you don't find it many places, they're honest pieces of original British design. Yet, they're being abandoned and knocked down. It's a shame, and I think that it makes an interesting subject to capture.

(btw, I decided to make all the models for the scenes to print, rather than making them by hand, the pen will just be used to bind them in place, here's a pint my friend helped me with modelling)

Waverly Abbey. 

A lot of the time, when I go into central Farnham, I cross Bishop's Meadow. From there, I always see the town's church, and it always reminds me how few of my friends, and people I know, are religious. It's to the extent that the percentage of people that are, in Britain, has gone down a fair bit. And surely enough, Church attendance in Britain has dipped dramatically. With that, I can make another point about a change in Britain's anatomy, it's yet another thing that we do quite originally, and tho most of Europe has ornate and wonderfully stone-worked churches, it's not quite the same as we have it here. It's another example of architecture like this beginning to disappear, lost to time. 

This isn't a picture I took, I still need to visit the abbey.

Birmingham.

Home sweet(ish) home. I saw most of my life in areas in and around Birmingham, living close to it means it's seen most of my growth. And since so much of this project has been thinking about time, and change, I thought it would be smart to bring it home, to the time and growth I know best. The plan for this one was to recreate a small area/small areas in Birmingham with the printer, but when the model is set up, it'll be over a small amount of soil, with germinated seeds in, so that plant life will slowly overgrow the miniature city. This one is mostly just a metaphor for growth and change, rather than a direct observation of one. The idea is more to explore the idea of having the model almost become part of the environment. 

I'm going to dump another photo of another finished model at the bottom here, for progression's sake.

 

There is a halved variation of the stool so that it's print-able