Wearable Sculptures

 

We wanted to criticise and show how today we are blinded by trends of fashion. We wear items and outfits that aren’t necessarily comfortable, or because we like them but because they are trendy.

We were inspired by Ruffs worn in the middle ages and renaissance eras. These Ruffs showed status and were uncomfortable yet very trendy.

            

 

The sculpture is not comfortable which is the first aspect of the virtual reality.

 

The second virtual reality aspect of it is when you wear the head “situation” your head is in a closed tight environment while your body is in another space and freer. You can’t see the “outside world” which forces you to use your other sensed besides sight to get around and know what is happening.

 

 

 

To create the piece, we took the wooden boards and cut them in half. We then sanded them down and stapled them together for them to sit on the shoulders of the wearer.

Sanding down the wooden pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring a Space – Body, Space and Movement

We decided to study the movement of light.

 

In order to fulfill the requirements of the assignment of exploring an 8 cubic meters space using 3 ingredients: space, body, and movement, we limited ourselves to a small bathroom where we could move around and draw out patterns using light. The overall idea is to use our bodies as an instrument to create the movement of light through space.

 

 

We use a wide lens camera to capture more of the space, and with slow shutter mode, we managed to capture the movement of the light we wanted.

Inspired by the images shown above, we played around with the color of the light as well: covering the flashlight with a white paper gave the light a much clearer definition than when not covered with anything; placing our fingers over the flashlight created a tone of red/orange light. The challenging part of demonstrating this idea is to successfully capture a complex movement which is clearly seen to be made by a human.

 

 

          

inspiration board

 

 

 

 

 

But after listening to the critics, we decided to do them in a gif form.

 

 

Project 2 – Representing a Childhood Space – Material

 

I decided to represent my room back in Beirut. Since I was 3 years old, I lived in the same house. We never moved, it was always the same walls. The furniture of my room and even the house changed throughout the years, but the walls stayed the same, that’s why I decided to just represent the structure of my room.

We never moved, it was always the same walls. The furniture of my room and even the house changed throughout the years, but the walls stayed the same, that’s why I decided to just represent the structure of my room.

At some point in time, my mom decided to add a desk and closets in my room, the desk and the closets were wood, and for a long time, my room smelled like freshly carved and burned wood. Surprisingly my maquette smells exactly like that since I used the laser-cutter to cut the different pieces of the maquette.

 

I even decided not to paint the maquette because even the color of my walls changed throughout the years.

 

The format of the maquette also is like an homage to my mother, who studied interior architecture and thought me how to draw a map of my room at a very young age and taught me to be very meticulous to size and perspective.

Project 2- Representing a Space – Digital

This is a representation of my current home here in Paris. I live with two other girls in this small apartment. It really represents us as a group of students going to Parsons Paris.

In contrast with my material representation of a space (which is my room back home in Beirut), this is my new environment in which I live in.

I am an only child, and before coming here, I’m used to being alone in the house. Now Living with 2 other people, the apartment is constantly crowded.

I want to represent this space on how it is lived in. I did not clean the apartment or rearrange anything because I wanted to keep it true.  I wanted to show the life in the apartment. The shots are from my perspective when I enter the house and what I focus on the most.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upa_Gms78-4