The interior of locks

I continued to research different types of locks throughout the end of last week and the beginning of this week. I found one interesting topic to be the interlocking of hands or parts of the body in general. Arm wrestling, folding legs or even crossing fingers all fell into the category of interlocking body parts.

I love how the detail in hands can suggest a certain emotion or thought. For instance a tight grip would suggest struggle yet a loose grip would suggest calmness. Heavyness of line was very important in controlling the emotion portrayed by the drawing of hands.

Aaron Curry

After focusing on the body i decided to revert back to rim locks and mechanisms as such. I began to take apart locks and analyse the interior of them. I explored how locks worked and the different particals that they are made up of.

I was inspired by an artist that was discussed on Mondays lecture on colour. The artists name is Aaron Curry. Curry is a young sculptor working in Los Angeles, whose work combines references to a range of other artists from Pablo Picasso to Isamu Noguchi to David Smith with aspects of Surrealism, tribal art and American popular culture. I find his pieces resemble the interior of locks in an unusual way. I admire his use of colour and the way in which the pieces are assembled.

So i decided to focus on the shapes of interior found in locks. I firstly produced a 2d piece of the internal structure of a lock in cardboard. This helped me gain insight into the structure and shape of lock interiors.I then progressed onto creating this piece in wood too see how it would look in a stronger material. I hope to develop a design for the surface of this piece which will most probably be in acrylic paint or materials or even a mixture of both. Im thinking of using a maze design with keys as focal points. I also want to keep along the line of tarnish colours such a blues oranges and yellows.


Creating the abstract internal structure of a lock in wood was  more difficult as my measurements had to be exact. I found creating it in wood to be exhilirating as seeing this small mechanism in such scale was overwhelming.

I hope to continue developing abstract shapes and forms of the interior of locks and create various pieces from this concept.
 

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”

-Theresa