I am sitting here today in the most glorious sunshine. It's casting warm shadows on the desk, making me feel all warm and Summery.
I've been thinking lately about sprinklers, about the days when the kids from around the neighbourhood used to play under the round orange sprinkler in my mum & dad's front yard, pretending it was raining and I'm thinking this could be a good start to my Wet & Wendy AW12 Rain Machine.
Need:
1. Hose
2. A big knife or some sort of sharp round leather tool
3. Two ladders (the A-frame type)
4. A tap
How hard can it be?
Maybe illustrator JOAO BENTO SOARES will help me draw up my rain machine plans?
(more drawings HERE)
In 1969, Andy Warhol began work on a project with a visual imagery company specialising in 3d imagery, he was looking to collaborate on a technology piece. Through testing and mockups the design moved from it's original concept of a snowstorm, using a wind machine and rain machine, to a calmer piece using 3d imagery of a repetitive daisy print with a rainy foreground. Where the technical company he was collaborating with wanted the rain machine to be enclosed and sophisticated in it's mechanics, Andy requested that the rain machine be exposed and crude. Unfortunately after its exhibits in Los Angeles and Osaka, the piece was so water damaged and therefore destroyed.
'In due course the Andy Warhol Rain Machine in the permanent collection of the Warhol Museum was to be covered in plexiglass. The 70 panels that comprise the Rain Machine on view here were enframed for the exhibitions at Cologne and New York in 2002. For these presentations the rain machine was fabricated according to the earlier plans and wishes of Andy Warhol as they are manifest in the installation at the Andy Warhol Museum.' (text: via: Rabih Hage Gallery read more here)
