lONELY tRAVELER

The Lonely Traveler was an abstract project completed as part of the Constructed Drawing course taken at Cornell my second semester there. It started with an object called “Globe vs Globe.” From there, we could manipulate the object in any way we wanted using a set of parameters. For my modification, I noticed that the object seemed to have these spherical shapes expanding from a central point in the center of the object. This gave the appearance that the object was a magnet drawing in these spherical shapes causing them to collide. The way they intersected gave some implied openings into the object itself. From there, I drew a line that weaved into and out of the object.

Given the idea of a magnetic field and the line that connected all the “openings” through the object, I created a tube which the object could be arrayed on and set the rule that the further each arrayed object was from the center, the larger it would get.

After this process was complete, I had to place the resultant creation into a narrative - a Tale of a Lonely Traveler.

The story goes like this: A lonely traveler lives on a deserted planet and traverses the land in search of another soul. On his journey, he comes across an unknown power source grotesque in size. The traveler decides to venture to the object to investigate. It takes the traveler all night to reach the object only to discover it too lacks life. The story ends with the traveler climbing to the top in hopes to find what they were looking for.