Spatial Concepts
Computational geometry and 5-axis robotic fabrication for an artist's work
Yoram Roth asked me to help materialise a body of work merging photography, sculpture and digital fabrication.
The direction drew on the Italian Spatialists of the 1960s — Fontana, Bonalumi, Castellani — and on Roth’s own investigation into how light behaves across ridges and openings in a surface, and his ambition to make spatial work rather than flat work on a wall.
Translating an artistic intent into geometry
The brief was not a specification. It was a visual intent, and my job was to find the geometric rules that would carry it — ridge depth, aperture rhythm, the angle at which a surface catches light — and hold them consistently across a set of pieces at different scales.
Production
The pieces were fabricated in Corian and PU foam on a 5-axis KUKA robot.
I led production coordination across specialists in digital fabrication, photo retouching, fine-art printing and metal frame fabrication — five disciplines, one set of tolerances, one installation date.
Spatial Concepts builds on Roth’s signature cropping technique, layering images to create depth and move the viewer’s attention across multiple focal points.
Spatial Concepts builds on Yoram Roth’s signature cropping technique, layering images to create depth and direct the viewer’s attention across multiple focal points.
Spatial Concepts builds on Yoram Roth’s signature cropping technique, layering images to create depth and direct the viewer’s attention across multiple focal points.
