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"Stress" in Binary by ~rebootmaster2001:iconrebootmaster2001:

Categories Traditional Art > Sculpture > Abstract

©2009-2010 ~rebootmaster2001
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Work from my Bachelor of Fine Art thesis show

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Here I used pencils and rubberbands to spell out "Stress" through binary code. The pencils and rubberbands are ceramic.

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In this line of work, using everyday objects as text, I wrote out concepts which I have struggled to grasp in binary code. I chose binary code because of its simple yet complex characteristics. In binary code, you either have a “1” or a “0”. It’s simply one or the other. However, when put together in a sequence they can represent characters which form words used for communication. Everything input into a computer has to be filtered through binary code. I compared this to the way people think. Everything I feel is brought into me through a language that I understand. The objects I choose may or may not make sense to everyone because it is the mental connection I make when I relate difficult concepts to my tangible, physical world. The viewer may be able to draw the same connections I do, or to their own ideas. These pieces also work as hieroglyphs in that sense, giving this body of work a bilingual quality that I enjoy.

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*jameson9101322 Jun 7, 2009, 10:20:43 AM
I LOVE This series! I'm serious. It's brilliant

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Mood: Love *moordred-fangirl Jun 9, 2009, 9:36:55 PM
What a good atmosphere these piece has, the twisty elastics and tilted pencils give it a very stressed feel...

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~rebootmaster2001 Jun 12, 2009, 9:16:24 AM
Thank you :D

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~rebootmaster2001 Jun 19, 2009, 4:59:29 PM
Thank you :D

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~sharedmadnessoftwo Jul 13, 2009, 3:00:08 AM
this is really cool, especially the concept and the way you carried it out. i like how theres a snapped pencil too

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~nyankorita Jul 15, 2009, 12:59:53 AM
What made you decide to use rubber bands to represent "stress"?
Just curious...

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~rebootmaster2001 Jul 17, 2009, 9:48:08 AM
The rubber bands are a literal symbol of stress; one applies stress to them to make them achieve their purpose. Other people have made the connection of office supplies representing a job to stress, and I like that too, but my original idea is the literal stress a rubber band goes through.

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~nyankorita Jul 18, 2009, 2:04:08 AM
Ah! Interesting ^_^

I guess I kind of read both. I didn't think of the "literal symbol of stress", but I did think about how a rubber band can be stretched and manipulated, and that when you do too much, it breaks...kind of like people.

But I was more focused on the "office supplies" idea, just more in terms of "school supplies" since this was a BFA show. I then thought about how I don't particularly remember myself using rubber bands in university, thus my question about how it related to your theme.

Thank you for answering!

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~rebootmaster2001 Sep 9, 2009, 11:31:21 AM
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