The Sinister Summit, Laputa

"Fantasy fills the thoughts of the unimaginative mind.."

"Fantasy fills the thoughts of the unimaginative mind.."

The Geographer has reached an absolution.
The model reflects upon the imagination of the 'Geographer' as featured in Vermeer's painting.
Everyday tasks have become a burden and he wishes to regress back to his childhood.
The tower represents the psychological journery as the 'Geographer' loses himself in his thoughts, his imagination, a world of fantasy in which he can immerse.
All the components from the base site up, are all interlocked at 90 degree angles, this ties in with the fact that he has a mathematical and logical mind, always measuring.
He feels the need to escape, and dreams of a space where he can escape.
The forms become more abstract in his mind, a narrow subtle path up the tower illustrates the need to climb his way up the tree in the sky.
The top depicts his ecstasy, a place where he can observe the land freely without consideration for anything else, to dream.
The fantasy scape provides rooms in which he can divulge in his activities.
His mind has formed voids through the interplay of balsa walls with respect to the model, these 'walls' define the boundaries of the rooms, however they are open-ended and thus represent his freedom from his world.
Through these pieces used as such; windows, doors and openings are suggested to thus fulfill the architectonics of the structure.
A curved metal piece is used on the top room as a wall, the idea of this is allegoric, and effectively alludes to the childlike state he wishes for, the simple innocence of a childs mind.
It also symbolises the way light hits the surfaces of the landscape, in particular the ocean and its waves, and so light striations and interplays can be noticed when various angles are used to project light onto the model. The surfaces of the model, the voids, protrusions represent the land, his life as a geographer, therefore he thinks about the land all the time, the natural forms of the earth, creating unique light forms in every facet of the overall structure.
He is absolved.
The sinister summit of 'Laputa'.