Alexander Bower Alexander Bower Immersive Intermedia / R&D / Process

Model Making - The Cave

Making models with discarded waste, for use in development of live 'Immersive Experiences'.
Practical, real world models, effects and techniques combine with the help of numerous technologies and digital assets.

There's so much waste around these days.
One one of my many skip diving forays, I pulled out some steel wire mesh,
probably ripped from a stud wall after a refitting.
I straightened it out and made a cave structure from it.
I then fished out a load of heavy, brown paper delivery bags from my communal recycling bins in my flats, which I papier mached onto either side of the framework.
I had some leftover woodland soil, I had gathered, which was full of broken down wood and glued it to the inside of this cave, for texture.

This model is a bit of a work in progress downsized maquette, to help me visualise a larger size, 'Immersive Experience' of a subterranean environment...