The work uses full body movement for computational fabrication to present invisible information through visible body movement. As the accompanying video demonstrates, the body becomes a force to create form. The resulting work is two digitally-printed sculptures that show very different force fields from the movement created by a dancing human body.
Each sculpture comprises two structural layers. The first sculpture is a combination of contoured surface and thin curved tubes, and the second sculpture integrates a contoured surface with triangulated tubes.The first sculpture shows the spatial differences between the body and the energy fields that surround the moving body. The contoured surfaces are directly formed by the movement of the dancer, while the thin curved tubes represent the energy fields which are created by using the mathematic control points of the abstracted geometric body shape of the dancer.The second model was created by exploring the rate of time sampling. As with the first model, the contoured surface is based on actual dance movement without compression. Triangulated tubes are, however, created as a result of surreal time compressions from the same dance movement. Both layers synchronize the beginning of the dance; therefore, the final sculpture presents the ambiguous relationship between the visible and invisible, semi-connected and detached from each other.