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はじめましで、わだしはタオ・ゥインです。大学はthe new schoolです。2年生です。さんこわphotographyです。ちゅごくじんです。よろしくございます。

 

The reason that I take Japanese class is that I like Japanese photography. If I can I wanna study aboard  to Japan.

Natural Dye

I bought it at John Madura farms near 16th Street in Union Square. This is my way to lab. I thought I needed to buy materials, so I went there. I think maybe green food is more beneficial to our health and environment, and I don’t think the kinds and prices of vegetables are very expensive. Before I thought that green food was more expensive than normal food, but it was actually affordable. I bought a purple cabbage and used three dollars. It’s much cheaper than I go out to eat, and it’s healthier and cleaner. And I don’t have to go out for food. I can buy them on my way to school. When I communicate with farmer, I feel warmer than I usually go to the supermarket. This is a communication between people John D Madura farms is at 267 route 23 in Sussex, NJ. It’s not far from Manhattan. I buy purple cabbage as a seasonal product. I think the vegetables that have not been processed are the most sustainable because they do not use additives, and the vegetables in the current season will not use green house and other technologies to make plants grow unnaturally.

Sustainable System_High Line

In my opinion, humans are both the solution and the problem for the environment. Take the High Line as an example. Before, “In the decades of disuse, many people were calling the High Line an ugly eyesore”. Humans make this problem. However, we solve this problem. They change the high line to park which for people to take a rest. Today, the High line is a good place to take a rest for New York citizens. I think for the environment, humans are the problem maker. But nowadays humans find out this problem and try to fix it. I think the climate will change self-regulate if the human stop damages the environment. But it will take a long time due to this problem by themselves.

Human Impact:

Natural:

Mimic Nature:

Studio 2 Truth _ Bridge 4

Name: Luying

Major: Photography

Seminar: My research is about camouflage. In my research paper, I want to illustrate that camouflage can change our life. In natural, butterfly use camouflage to avoid predators catching. Human gets inspirations though camouflage, it not only could apply on the military but also could be used in medical science. In my own idea, if we develop camouflage deeply, it will also be used widely in our daily life such as the decoration of the city, maybe hide the rubbish bin in the city to make the streets cleaner.

The butterflies which use camouflage to hide themselves

Camouflage is used in medical science.

Camouflage is applied in war.

Studio: I want to make a projection mapping. There is a combination of sculpture and projection. For the sculpture, I use cardboard to create white flowers which can set in the corner of the wall. Then I will edit videos about butterflies and project the video on it. The flower represents the natural, and the video represents camouflage.

 

 

 

Studio 2 Truth_ Camouflage

Artists / Designers:

  1. Yayoi Kusama
  2. Liu Bolin: Mona Lisa, 2016
  3. Desiree Plamen
  4. Laurent La Gamba

Plublic Monuments:

Desiree Plamen Public Place Camouflage

Laurent La Gamba

Material:

  1. Painting
  2. Sculpture
  3. Stone

Sketch Idea:

Mood Board:

Moob Borad

Sem 2 Truth_ Camouflage

Our society can get a lot of benefit from Camouflage

Camouflage means that “all strategies involved in concealment, including prevention of detection and recognition.” Camouflage is really useful not only in the military but also in our daily life. In natural animals hide them self to avoid hunting. this model can perfectly be used in the military. By wearing special clothes which similar to the surrounding, soldiers can “despair”. It is a very useful strategy to avoid the enemy’s eyes. This method is used from ancient time.

Camouflage is also applied in medicine. ” According to the British Association of Dermatologists, 15% of the population per year will be seeking help from their general practitioner for a skin condition, and most patients will have their skin disorder diagnosed and treated in primary care.” In this case, skin camouflage can be used that make the scar unseeable. It is pretty useful for the patients to have better condition of the skin.

Picture from Skin Camouflage by Louise McMicheal

Someone said that thieves will use camouflage to steal. However, I think camouflage is not excessed, stealing also will also happen in our daily life. They can find out another way to steal. In this case, a good education of children is a more effective way to decrease thief. Moreover, since the technology is improved, although thieves use camouflage to steal something. The police can use a lot of methods such as though the fingerprint.

Bibliography :

McMichael, Louise. “Skin Camouflage.” BMJ: British Medical Journal 344, no. 7839 (2012): 43-45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41501844.

Stevens, Martin, and Sami Merilaita. “Introduction: Animal Camouflage: Current Issues and New Perspectives.” Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1516 (2009): 423-27. http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.newschool.edu/stable/40485806.

Thayer, Abbott H. “Camouflage.” The Scientific Monthly 7, no. 6 (1918): 481-94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/7086.

Studio 2 Truth _ Bridge 2

The piece from Brooklyn Museum:

Expannation:

In this work, put a lot of little species together to make the three-dimensional texture. Although The Blue Circle is in three dimensional, it is flat. However, the colour makes the hole seems like, have depth. In this case, when the audience stands in front of the work, the blue circle looks like a whole. However, when the audience turns to change his view angle from the front to the side, they can find out that actually, it is a blue circle.To see the whole art piece, the colour of the background is from light to dark, and the three blue circles are in opposite directions. It makes a high contrast between two colours, I think it can make those three circles or obvious.The name of the collection is aggregation. Aggregation is put separate part together. And his work is made from the old Korean books. It is a form translate 2D to 3D. In this case, what we see is not the truth, we need to identify an object or event from different prespectives.

My work:

Base on the idea that we need to know events from different perspectives, I choose photos from The Pioneering Image which contain 150 years of American Photography. In this book, the editor said: “Photography began as a technology that recorded visual realities as they are perceived through a lens, but quickly moved away from this basic function into sophisticated areas of art and expression.” In other words, Photography is not only a way to record our daily life, but also a method to express photographers’ own ideas and perspectives. I think this idea has really closely connected with this project. So I sewing a bunch of photos together to make a dress. So in this dress, It contains photographers idea and their thought of the world.

Sketches:

Process:

Final:

I chose this background is because it is clean and have very vivid color and my own work is only contain black and white. If I choose also black and white background, my photo will become too boring that can not catch audience eyes. Moreover, the style of my work is very cool it also match the style of background.

Sem 2_Truth_Brooklyn Museum

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In this work, put a lot of little species together to make the three-dimensional texture. Although The blue Circle is in three dimensional, it is flat. However the color make the hole seems like, have depth. In this case, when the audience stands in front of the work, the blue circle looks like a whole. However, when the audience turns change his view angle from the front to the side, they can find out that actually, it is a blue circle.

To see the whole art piece, the color of the background is from light to dark, and the three blue circles are in opposite directions. It makes a high contrast between two colors, I think it can make those three circles or obvious.

The name of the the collection is aggregation. Aggregation is put separate part together. And his work is made from the old Korean books. It is a form translate 2D to 3D.