RHIZOMATIC TUNNELING

RHIZOMATIC TUNNELING

A folly is an inhabitable sculpture set in a park in Brooklyn, NY.  The design is principle is rhizomatic tunneling.  Rhizomes are subterranean plant stems the grow in a specific way, like ginger. Most plants grow linearly roots to trunks to stems to leaves; however, rhizome grow from a center but then go sporadically in all directions until one can no longer define the source.  The way I create the structure I made a series of overlapping sticks that create odd shapes.  I then extrude the shape and wrap it in more overlapping sticks that then make more odd shapes.  I repeat this process over and over again until the space of 18’x18’x18’ is filled. From one elevation you see the efforts of the extrusions and the clear direction it is being created from.  From the other elevation there is a sense of randomness where one cannot see a coherent path.  These two elevations are so different and create odd spaces for children to climb, play, and hide in.  The effect of the rhizomatic tunneling creates a disorientation of the beinging, the entrance, or the exit, it is free to be interpreted by the user.

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