I'm so excited, and i just cant hide it!!

wow!!! i have had a busy week or so. after kinda humming and haaing about wether or not it was a good idea or bad idea to make a whole cathedral structure, i came to a decision that i would just do it.
the thing i didnt want to do was simply reconstruct a cathedral and that be it. where was the concept in just copying what already existed even if i was changing the material used and making a skeleton of it. but in actual fact if i was going to be 'just' reconstructing a cathedral, it wouldnt at all 'be it' , because it is merely the set for a sound/video piece and is only one part of what will make the whole.
so did some initial drawings and played around with some differnt floor plans. because i think this is the most important. how the vaults will look when all the arches cross each other. and i have been trying out differnt 'window' designs at the same time as making a wire model and a lifesize maquette of one 'vault section'
so this is the floor plan, with all the arches drawn in. i think it looks cool!! im cant wait to start building it
detail being added to the vault














here it is; 5m high. this is one 'vault section' of my proposed cathdral. a lifesize maquette, with potential detail included. below is a photo with myself so you can see the scale relationship to person size.


this is the wire maquette i made this past week.
i think its the most fun thing ive made here. it gave me a lot of excitement and energy to do a lot of prep/design work.
Its made at a scale of 1:20
im very excited about the potential of it.

It's going to be COLOSSAL!!!
and a stack of work,
im not sure what im getting myself into,
but then i was never one to make things easy for myself. Never!





























these photos below are of the model painted black. I'm playing with aperture, and lighting and shadow. love it!!!












oh this just gets better and better!! here i have painted the model white, and photographed it in a glossy white box, love the colours, love the light and dark, love the way it reflects at the bottom. its not hanging and yet its not grounded either. love it!!



well what i have in fact done, is not copy any existing cathedral. but made my own structure based on some of the elements of existing cathedrals and also how the new jerusalem is described in revelations.
these elements include, the rose windows, and vaults, the nave, a 'holy number' of pillars. three entrances at each north, south, west, east side etc
and while this skeleton may still contain a lot of detail, and looks complex, it actually has been simplified a reasonable amount from what an existing cathedral contains.
ive done away with all side chapels and alters to the saints. also flying buttresses. and the extra parts of the building you find in addition to the basic cross shape.
ive also not included a bell tower or spire, i orginally wanted to becuase they can be very cool, but for some reason now it makes sense not to. but im not sure why yet.

yay!!! i can't wait to start making this, this is what i love!!!