Bridges’ work builds on the legacies of romanticism and modernism to explore the possibilities surrounding DIY designed technologies as these relate to idealism and use. Engaging various media and looking through the subject of solar energy technology, she explores dialectics central to discourses in painting and communication design, such as the ameliorative potential vs. romantic projection embodied in both traditions, and the negotiation between public vs. private modes of distribution.
Energetic Conduits presents two pieces that address ideas of functionalism and design in art in addition to notions central to the sublime, modernist form, landscape and backyard Do-It-Yourself technology.
DIY Gathering Tool, a stack of take-away posters consisting of a pop-out schematic of an imagined solar energy collecting mechanism, provides the viewer the option of following the printed instructions to assemble the prototype solar technology.
Solar Array, an animation depicting the transportation, unfolding and installation of a solar energy collecting device in a northern landscape, locates an abstracted schematic in proximity to a naturalistic reflection of the surroundings.
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