Whale Work : v1.0

When I was away on vacation fishing up on Frasier island- there was a beached whale (Southern Wright juvenile male) not far from where were staying- This piece is going to be a homage to that beached whale, which for whatever reasons beached itself and died, and was later on the higher tides torn apart by sharks. I took photos mostly of the front section of the body, mainly the mouth and converted it into 3D data via 3Dsee which I am reworking and sculpting in 3DCoat - the drawn sketches I have put together have so far been quiet abstract - I don't know at this stage what the final form of the sculpture will take. The beauty of the shape of the mouth that seems to to come into play in the sketches a lot of the times reminiscent of the Whalebone arches used in Inuit building materials for igloos.

Video of work shown on Big Screen Project

The vid:

Big Screen from Jake Hempson on Vimeo.

Works on Big Screen

I recently uploaded a selection of video works to QUT's Kelvin grove big screen - So this is my first public exhibition of my works. The video I uploaded has no sound - which in the end worked out well - as I had no intention of evoking an auditory mood.
The big screen project is a student initiative which allows staff and students at QUT to display their works on giant projectors on the Glasshouse Z2.