Part 1: Personal Reflection

After the whole semester of taking Int Seminar 1 and Studio 1, I gradually find myself as an artist, not just a designer. From Bridge 1 to Bridge 5, I never stop to explore with new materials, because I always believe that people learn from exploring the unknown area. I’ve been playing with different materials and using different forms to build and create my projects. For instance, I made a bunch of clay heads for my first project. The reason why I chose clay as my material is first, I’m just so interested in human face structure and I think clay is the best way to show human facial characters and I never use clay in my art at all. For my Bridge 2 Memory Postcard, I made a short video as my postcard. Because of this project, I learned more about my camera and how to use a recorder to capture sounds. For my Bridge 3 project, I learned how to use Premiere for the first time. I use foam boards and wood to build our prototype, and also got a chance to learn how to use some incredible tools in Making Center. Finally, we are at the end of this semester, I planned to challenge myself by experiencing a new material, Acrylic. I want to use an interesting material and form to make my “Book” looks unique and meaningful. I enjoy making every single project because I enjoy to explore and meet with new materials. I’ excited to learn more about how to edit video because I didn’t get enough time to learn how to use premiere this semester.

 

Part 2: Dream Project

I went to Canal Plastic last week, and I saw some incredibly long and beautiful acrylic sticks. I was so inspired by those beautiful materials. If I am going to make my dream project, I would like to build a huge sculpture by using clear acrylic/ glass sticks. I will use hundreds of 1-meter acrylic/glass sticks to build a human body (probably 20 meters high). Under the sun, we could see a beautiful, shining human body. It’s pure and innocent. At night people barely could see the sculpture. This project represents two different sides of myself. The sinning one is the outgoing me who wants to prove herself in front of the world. I want to keep my mind clean, innocent and never changed the darkness of the society and humanity/. At night, I would hide myself up and just be invisible. I believe everyone needs a space to rest and just enjoy being alone. If I want to build this sculpture, I have to do some research on the weight of the total amount of glass/ acrylic. How can I connect those acrylic/ glass together without using other colored material like nails? Should I use glue? What kind of glue and will it work? I need to solve every question that stops me. I need to meet with some artist who has experience made giant sculptures. I think I would work with my designer friends and a great construction team that can help me to actually build the sculpture. I think I would display my sculpture in public, like some park in the city. I want to show the public my idea and give everyone beautiful and free visual enjoyment.