Wood? Not Wood!
Real vs Fake
Wood/Not Wood
Real Fake Wood on Wall
Leftover Foam, Bark, Oil Paper
Professor: Andrew Zago
Class: SCI-Arc - Spring 2019- Visual Study
Team: Yibo Qiao, Andrew Stone, Yangfan, Pedram Didipour
The project will examine large-scale wood members and test their assembly through ungainly joinery. Wood/Not Wood is the title of a related pictorial essay, edited by Andrew Zago, exploring a long-running art project by artist and architect Sean Briski. Briski traces the cultural impulse for authenticity (and its unraveling) though a series of curated wood, and wood-like, thrift-store objects. A meditation on certain ideals in American popular culture, This project establishes a series of possible positions in a field defined by values like real, fake, ironic, handmade, functional, and sculptural.
ANDREA BRANZI | PLANK CABINET 1
2014
PATINATED AND POLISHED ALUMINIUM, WOOD AND SPRAY PAINT
H180 L240 W35 CM / H70.9 L94.5 W13.8 IN
Authentic vs Fake
sculptural vs functional
natural vs technology
Fake? Real?
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Fakeness
Sun, rain, moisture, and some magic from chemistry give the foam a woody texture, which is the fakeness of wood in the project. However, this uniqueness requires time, which is similar to wood. Is this really the fake wood?
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Realness
Bark comes from the real wood. Oil-paper also comes from real wood. Those materials bring realness to the corner of the project. However, it needs a lot of processes between raw material and bark. Could this be called real?
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Real? Fake?
Light and view angle brings another layer of information to the project. Bark and oil-paper are glued to the edge in an oblique way, which gives the project a fake shadow. The real shadow comes from the thickness of the material. Wood? Not wood!
