This is my wire project I did in space class.

I thought that the use of different wire colors and thickness was successful. This is because it added sense of volume and lines to describe the perfume bottle. My intention for using three different wires was to add some excitement to this project because using one kind of wire will have some limit to add colors and fun.

I thought that my connections were unsuccessful. This is because they were uneven. One was too larger and loose than the other and it made my wire project to look to unprofessional. Next time to make the lines clear I will have to use more tools to tighten the connections.

I mafe the top part open so that people could see the insides from the top. This is because I also had spray staw going through and I thought that when people get to open this bottle cap, thr project will be more engaging.

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Reflection:

1. What have you discovered about your creative process over the course of the semester thus far? What did you discover about your preferred processes through this particular assignment?

I have discovered that creativity could come in process and in steps. As a painting student, creativity has been always important to me. The idea just popped up in my head and without thinking too much, I will just paint and paint. But I learnt that to create something unique can also take time and take steps to finalize my ideas. 

2. Tell me about your separate experiences with on-site research and primary/secondary source research. How did these separate investigative methods inform your final work? Was one more valuable to you than the other? How did the two inform each other?

I would say that both research techniques are valuable. On site research helped me with the first impression and gave me an exact feeling of what could be nice to have on that place and the secondary source research gave me details and facts to support my idea. They both are very useful to come up with the design. 

3. What did you learn about your approach to research through this project?

I leant that when hailing with second source reseach, you need to be more careful on where the information comes from and whether the information is really needed in my essay. I often drift off from main points when I am writing because the facts that I found on internet is more interesting. But through this project especially, because it is focused on one item, I learnt that it is important to pay more attention to what information I am writing down on the paper. 

4. What did you learn about your approach to revision?

Because this project took quite a long time, it was very important to me to revise because I would forget what I researched before and have to find it again. Revision helps me to store the knowledge and make it mine. And this is useful because writing essay becomes a lot more easier. 

5. What was your intention for this assignment? How do you feel you successfully conveyed that intention? How do you think you could have conveyed that intention more successfully?

My intention was to make a piece which could be enjoyed nay everyone in the public as well as to educate, and honor the LGBTQ community. I think I was successful with this project because I think I achieved both quite well. 

6. Discuss the relationship between Bridge 4 Studio and Bridge 4 Seminar in your process. How has the work you’ve done in Seminar informed your choices in Studio, and vice versa?

Now that I got more clear idea on how to design the project through writing this research based essay, I think that studio project will be easier to make. This is because while I was writing for seminar, I kept on thinking about the actual installation which made me think about how to build it. 

7. How has writing informed your creative process and practice at large?

Writing didn’t affect my creative process as much but through writing it, my ideas became more clearer and my new ideas kept coming up which I could say that it affected my creative process. 

8. How has this project changed the way you see? (This is open for interpretation.)

I wasn’t too aware of LGBTQ community but as I was writing for the side of pros LGBTQ liberation, I got more educated about the issue and the people. I also learnt that there are so many things people should take care of when building an installation or monuments. It cannot be just pretty, but safety is also very important when it comes to public. 

Maendeul Maendeul is a made up Korean word for ‘to make’. The first time I encountered the word, I was very struck and I thought it had such a nice ring to it ( I have a tendency to like a word for a while).  Also because everything about the video is very close to me, I thought I would name it Maendeul Maendeul.

This video is about two people talking about life after death and through this they realize how living is important. The video begins with a girl asking a boy, about his preference to become a new person/thing if he could live again after his death. He takes the question casually by answering her that he wants to be an animal in the sea. He doesn’t like the surrounding environment and we can see that he is not a sociable person (he does not like people). Then she questions him about what is important in his current life and they both realizes how every memories, experiences and their passion are very valuable to them. The Video ends up with a sky scene with two people talking about the subject more specifically  in Korean which makes the audiences question about it (because they don’t speak Korean). This was intentional because first, to make it more personal to me and to make the audience realize that it’s very personal to the person who made the video.

I wanted to link this video to the last one I made so I used the subject, ‘Death’ and ‘After death’. The first video was about suicide and the girl mourning for his death and him haunting her through out the years. This video also deals with death but I wanted this project to be more romantic, soft and calm. The bond and support from two people gives the feeling of happiness and stability but the subject they are dealing with and the sense of emptiness adds sadness, vagueness and dreamlike feeling to the video. To add to the mood, I focused on the words used, the color of each scenes and scene transitions. The purple is my favorite color and the unsaturated color adds to the mood. For scene transitions, I used dissolve which is calming and smooth.

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This Exhibition place I created is on the topic of dreams. I put images of surreal photographs and paintings in a very uncomfortable places. Its all scattered on pillars and walls because I wanted to create this uncomfortable edgy feeling we feel after we wake up from dreams. The floor is made of shiny resin with an image of galaxy so that the people feel like they are going to be sucked down which also creates discomforting feelings. The black door is present in the exhibition as a connection to the next exhibition place and it creates a mysterious vibe so that audiences are curious to move further on. By saying ‘Enter your dream world’, it connects with the people and makes them feel sympathetic. The pillars are all in different sizes to bring up the uniqueness of individual’s imaginations in dreams.

When walking in the room, the people will see the door to the next exhibition in the center making the room feel like an hallway to their deeper unconsciousness. The floor and the ceiling are covered with small and big clouds to lift up the people’s mood and to add mysterious mood to the whole exhibition. In the colored version of this exhibition place, the colors are bright and vibrant to add discomfort to the eyes so that people really feel the mood of this entire exhibition.