This year, I thought I’d post up who or what has inspired me each month. To start off 2010, the company I’m nominating for January is MDM Props in London. A company I first read about last year on wired.com in an article by Kate Kitamura, MDM are commissioned by artists such as Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Jake and Dinos Chapman to create and build their physical works of art, taking their ideas and ‘white labelling’ them by bringing them to life.
Why do they inspire me?
Working within digital production, we often work backstage, pulling strings, making cups of tea and trying to figure out problems from the banal to the complex. Most of the time we sit staring at the pixels working with ‘digital’, something that is abstract and not physically in front of us, there is no mass to digital, it boils down to alot of binary.
Imagine the challenges however of trying to find a shade of black paint that is ’20 times blacker than the next blackest shade’ or fighting with the laws of physics all the while managing the creative expectations of an artist.
Despite the inevitable stresses and pressures that this process must entail, imagine too the satisfaction of having completed a monumental piece of installation art.