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Instrument Seven

May 9, 2013
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Instrument Seven

Instrument Seven

 

Most of the views I have posted of the instruments are from the side – here is Instrument Seven from above. The round yellow piece is a spirit level. The transparent surface seen below and behind the picture plane is a protractor that accepts a weighted string when aligning instruments to throw paint at each other.

Instrument Five

April 25, 2013
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Instrument Five

Instrument Five

I don’t think I have posted this photograph before (either). It is of Instrument Five in one of the last drawing sessions. The paint catapults are quite accurate (more so than anticipated when designing and making them) but in this case the paint mostly falls short of the drawing pieces it is aimed at. The figure fo the flying paint is still quite intriguing, and a reminder of the uncertainty inherent in the process. The colour of the flying paint is simply due to including (unmixed) portions of white and orange latex paint in the catapult cup. Although I fabricated almost every part of the instruments, I used kitchen measuring spoons for the catapult with a hemispherical cups. The catapults were designed for disposable plastic spoons so that I could change them quickly between throws for colour changes, but their cup shape did not produce very concentrated throws.

Instrument Five

April 24, 2013
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Instrument Five

Instrument Five

I don’t think I have posted this photograph before – it is the final high speed flash photograph from Instrument Five, a wider view than most of the flying paint pictures. The instrument with the paint catapult that makes the throw is off to the left. The flying paint in this image is quite feint, but can be seen as a diagonal line entering the drawing pieces from the top left.