-This is a series of sketching, painting, collaging, 3D rendering and photo-graming that concentrates on compositions and negative spaces.
leftover materials in my place
I tend to visualise the subject and obj inspired me recently into a piece of surface. That is an archive that helps me to keep everything in my train of thought from a general idea to the use of textiles, material. I mostly use it to work on Set Design + Art Direction for photoshoots from small scale product shoot to landscape human scale.
colors compositions
biomorphism and negative space
Don’t underestimate negative space. Just because it might be bare doesn’t mean that it lacks power. By removing elements of an image, it can evoke mystery and conjure emotions of longing or loss. When used in this way, negative space helps drive the larger meaning behind a work. Negative space traces the outline of a subject to reveal its form. By looking at these negative areas, our brains will turn them into simple shapes
objects and negative spaces
The compositions floated in space, conjuring up scenes such as solar eclipses, while also connecting to the flat aesthetic of the image
pinhole camera tésts
cyanotype
Composition
I attempted to visualise and create different compositions base on Isamu Noguchi's practice about Negative space from the Japanese garden to sculptures. He greatly inspired by traditional Japanese art, as well as by the biomorphic style of some Surrealist art.
video call styling
Base on Caro's study about biomorphism and the human body, we create the idea that involves a lot of body movements in a conceptual looking landscape background. For example, Sculpture park, modernist neighbor, museum. This background will represent the set design we could have done in the studio or found in well-schemed public places. Fortunately, Caro's parents' garden house was able to accommodate the set.
We arranged a shoot to test a new way to progress a photoshoot. First, the digital or analogue camera is converted into a phone (laptop screen). The camera lens and screen has never been10,000km far from each other. Not only the technical issue is effected but also the styling and art directing process are changed. As the art director and designer, we still worked through the concept and styled each look but with a clearer direction. The model aka the designer has to be more proactive and flexible when she is posing in front of the camera to make sure that she is inside the frame.
Fashion designs
2D to 3D
(Illustration - Rhino- Zbrush- Dimension)
Rhino and composition skills
Final Major Project plans
During this 2-year, unconsciously collecting objects and concepts, I realized the harmony between my practice with a part of Carl Andre's manifesto about spontaneously utilizing material and objects around us. There is also a deep interest in the industrial matter, mass production - the obsession of tremendous quantity, architecture, space, arrangement. Therefore, to achieve the same aesthetic I started to curate works and ideas from designers and artists that evoke my interest in Minimalism art, Bauhaus, Cubism, Art + Science, Surrealism, Dadaism.
Art & design mentioned continuously in the same genre, but both are distinctive from the process of thinking and building. Polam Chan's work intents to combine both his artistic process and his curiosity in architecture to create an artwork that able to resonate audiences to the current society’s housing design and craft. The series of the same 15 pieces of brick with bare plywood gave me a sense of industrial, brutalist and bauhaus. The quantity of 15 and 1000 x 385 x 200 can be considered as a mass scale. Bare plywood with the mark of pencil share the same elements with brutalism and bauhaus about materials should reflect the true nature of objects and buildings. Bauhaus architects didn’t hide even brutal and rough materials. He also has an interest in how viewers interact with the “bricks" and the way he installs or puzzlericks them.
Caro Chia is a fashion designer with an obsession with different ways to put tension in a piece of fabric. Her recent designs mostly inspired and reveal Barbara Hepworth's curves and intersections. But there is also the similarity of human movement in Oskar Schlemmer's theatrical practice. Art’s intimate interrelation with the human body - its relationship to space and its affiliation to design and architecture - were always the jumping off points for Schlemmer’s creative process. . I think it’s really interesting the way he played with primary shapes and the human form the same as Caro Chia.
We share our interest in dadaism, biomorphic and modernism through creating designs and art. Both of the works display their creation from combining fine art & design, though, the outcome are distinct from one another. The form of their work changes when Caro decided to use fine art’s biomorphism & modernism as the inspiration and Polam use design, dadaism and modernism as the topic. I like to use these examples to view a conversation between 2 distinct characters sharing the same modernist roof but conveying different human aspects.
With Isamu Noguchi's idea of the work is "sculpture of spaces," rather than a collection of discrete pieces". I curated and put the designs and art pieces in the same space, among each other. I aim to blur the boundary between these arts. The first aspect is can fashion be as powerful as an art piece when they are next to each other? Another view is what if this piece of fashion can be shown as sculpture and the sculpture can be used as a fashion piece?
I also wanted to create a 'pretend' Rube Goldenberg' machine set design with art pieces and found objects around the uni. The set will be a small scale park that will be set on the table surface (120 x200mm). The audience can walk around the table to visit the different spots of this park. However, this ornamental system against the some of the principles of Bauhaus and Automatism of which I want to achieve.
Last but not least, in Japanese garden philosophy, the charge between each element causes us to stay silent and in the silent, all the possibilities are born. I want to create the space that allows the audience to walk around the art piece without any ' 1meter personal space' they can closely look at the piece and the arrangement. As they move around, they become a part of this conversation, also there will be self-awareness , therefore, another kind of composition will be made.
Final Major Project plan 2
3D Photoshoot spaces
Surprisingly, the excitement of creating the enormous or surreal space first forced then encouraged me to use Rhino and 3D Sketch-up every day since the lockdown happened. It requires your time and effort to learn, understand and get used to it. In consequence, what you have is a magic wand. From my experience, I have become an art director who feels more confident than before even though my financial situation is still the same. What I mean is, as student or grad student, we are all struggling with asking for locations permission, building props and set designs, etc. With this 3D skill sets, this challenge is not as stressful as it was. The only matter that worries me at first is how to render them realistically. However, I don't think the question is necessary to be considered anymore. I believe it would become a new aesthetic; a combination of realism and surrealism?
