The Spirit of New York City

My goal for this project is to enhance usually dull & boring backpacks I see carried by people in the subway. I used mostly white, gold and copper to portray a stark contrast between the enhancements and the black backpack while simultaneously emulating the nightlife of New York City. The feather and ribbons are light because they are meant to blow along with the wind, evoking a sense of freedom – something New York City holds intimately at night. You would stand out with this enhancement yet you would also blend into New York City’s environment – like a walking lamppost, a very festive one.

My “recipe” to making the project, but in addition, making your own custom pack!

I wanted it to have a fun vibe because this is something anyone could do and have fun with. I wore mine around the holiday market in Union Square!

This project is on the relationship between shadow and secrecy. I explored how a secret can be fragile in relation to shadow and how a secret can contain both beauty and ugliness.

I wanted the shadow to portray a cage with roses and thorns surrounding it. The secret would be inside the soft-shadowed cage reflected on the wall which showed how it was locked away, but simultaneously, the secret’s existence was known.

I was actually using two light sources. One you can see hanging in the cage and the other one was behind the camera’s view.

This project was actually a reiteration of a previous shadow project. Although it looks like a lantern, it looks stunning when there’s really bright light source. I went more a lantern appearance because I liked the way it flickered and I wanted the shadows to do the same, to seem fragile.

Our first individual project in Space/ Materiality. I mixed in lo-fi elements from songs that are actually under the same name as a genre into audio clip combined with city ambiance. I want the listener to search for these furtive vocal clips as they would trying to find a friend in the bustling city of New York.