Studio/Institution: Paul D Nicholls Client: Self Motivated Genre: Other Software: 3d Max 2011, Vray 2.0, Photoshop, After Effects Website: http://www.pauldnicholls.com Description:
Exhibited at Apha Ville Festival 2010, Onedotzero 2010, and part of the Autodesk Showreel 2011. Also 2 of the images from this project were nominated for the 2011 best architectural image competition of CG Architect.
In an age of progressively automated manufacturing and fabrication processes, the Royal Cabinets are an aggressive expression of labour. Assembled from a contractor led design approach, the cabinets draw on highly skilled local craftsmen and artists to produce the fantastical. Staged within the proposed baron 'facadescape' of a financially fragile Canary Wharf, the Cabinets are programmatically charged with the loss of yet another great British labour force, Royal Mail.
Two ideas of labor are therefore existing in parallel. The capitalist driven one that we experience everywhere in the West, and the accomplishment of public service in a building that recounts its essence by its architecture.
The film plays with both ideas in an abstract assemblage of the cabinets themselves, before exploring the strangely formed architecture.
Nominated in best image category 2011
