1st Year

-To prepare a body of work of a sequence of constructions to be installed in a gallery

- To establish the basic structures of folding repeated surfaces in paper, and extend the structures in spatial and surface complexity; - To explore, consolidate the basic language of folding a flexible surface and create a set of rules by which each construction is made;

- To explore the formal properties of grids as two or three dimensions as supports or armatures

- To establish a critical understanding of the properties of paper, and to research over flexible surfaces with which I can make alternative/supplementary constructions

- To experiment with the studio photography of constructed work (lighting, object and ground, shadow, texture, human presence);

- To develop first a set of visual possibilities in Multimedia, to experiment with timing, sound and transition/editing;

- To design and implement an environment for the display/exhibition of these constructions

- To explore possible narrative sequences, symbolic sequences, mathematical and numerical sequences

- And by the end of the year to have moved my folded constructions from the narrative, functional, anecdotal and anthropomorphic to a context of aggregation and multiplied surfaces

- To assess the implications when a surface undergoes a regular series of aggregations or is diminished in surface, shape or topacity

- To explore the impact of simple numerical sequences Ð one object / two objects / three objects / on a trajectory to be undertaken by the spectator

- To decide on a short list of sequential properties (mathematical, narrative,

- Thesis Approval meeting in September, showing objects, photographs, multimedia movies and the first five works in a lit environment where the constructions are seen in a designed sequence. -

2nd Year

- To return to Japan in early October 2001.

- To plan an exhibition in June 2002 of a sequence of constructions in an enclosed interior

- To further extend constructions into more complex and extended forms - To make systematic study of the properties of direct and ambient light

- To make study of the shadows cast by my folded constructions - To experiment with the role that sound plays in displaying my body of work

- To study the changes of shadows and reflections as the source of light changes/ moves - To record my experiments to communicate with my supervisors over distance

- To develop a database of other works established by the folding of structures on a ground

- By the end of the second year, to have established a clear set of rules by which the constructions on a ground are achieved, to have photographed them and recorded them in a Director movie with their appropriate explanatory and critical texts

- To make a particular study of the role of sequential objects viewed in a gallery environment, and document texts and images appropriate

Ð 1916 installations by Mondrian, Doesberg, Malevich, RauschenbergÕs white paintings, and other manifestations of American Minimalism, the contribution of the Bauhaus

- To trace the attitude to shadows and light in Japanese culture and relate them to my concepts of installation.

- To explore constructions by folding in the context of architectural and environmental grid structures

- End of the academic year- installation in Grand Parade July, for supervisors and research group

- Discuss possible catalogue texts with supervisors, assemble images and texts.

- Return to Japan in August 2002

- final decision made on the sequence of constructions

3rd Year

- Plans and models submitted to supervisors

- Diary of project development written up into an extended account

- Preparing the first draft of a descriptive catalogue of the constructed pieces

- Critical Introduction of the role of the folded surface in modern art and design - Incorporating the history off paper as a constructive medium

- Paper in the work of the avant garde e.g Picasso, Schwitters, Depero,

- Collage frottage, construction at the Bauhaus

- The role of paper within commercial display

- The antithesis to Origami and the the culture of the anthropomorphic

- Mathematics and order in twentieth century construction

- To display the sequence of constructed forms in sequence in an environment in the University of Brighton, accompanied by a catalogue and 40,000word written part of the thesis.