Maquette for Orbital Landscape / concrete, vinyl print, MDF, colour spray / 30x30x7.5cm
Conceptual digital drawing exploring the notion of deconstructing the landscape
Digital drawing with human figure
Image of Orbital Landscape’s vinyl print
Photorealistic view of the Orbital Landscape in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, possible location no2 (Sarah-Lou Maarek)
Orbital Landscape
Orbital Landscape was shortlisted for the First Plinth Public Art Award 2023, by the Royal Society of Sculptors.
The proposed work is a 3x3m kinetic sculpture, consisting of 3 concentric circular parts (one inner circle and two outer rings), one placed inside the other to form a disk, which will depict a panoramic topography in black and white, designed as a linocut print. This piece conveys the tensions between nature and geometry along with motion and stillness.
The landscape will appear dissected as the middle ring rotates, introducing the notion of irregularity. The element of deconstruction through organised movement encompasses the conflicts between the natural and the artificial. Through this work, I explore symbolically the idea of collision between unlimited urban expansion and the surrounding natural world. The components of the urban landscape, being human made and artificial, are abstractly depicted as strict geometric rings that alter and deform the natural in a similar way as cities interrupt the notion of the unlimited extension of the landscape towards all directions.
