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Bridge 3: Andy Goldsworthy and My Proposal

Bridge 3: Andy Goldsworthy and My Proposal

“The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within.”

 

Proposal

      The artist I chose for my inspiration of this project is Andy Goldsworthy, who took inspirations and materials only from nature for his creations. Employing the materials he obtained from nature depending merely on where he was, he created patterns that challenge people’s visual senses. In addition, time is a “material” or factor he considered as part of his works. As the tide rose, the branches floated away with the river; as the ice melted, the sculpture fell apart and disappeared under the sunlight. He would watch the whole process of his works changing along with the time. I chose this artist because I always believe that aesthetics are tightly connected with natures. My favorite fashion designer, Iris van Herpen, took all her inspirations from natures and created astonishing patterns for her couture collections. Therefore, to design an ensemble that costs patience and time and is originally inspired from natures, I drew inspirations from Andy Goldsworthy’s process in making his arts and took patterns he created onto the design of my ensembles. 

 

Andy Goldsworthy 

Andy Goldsworthy, who took nature as his studio to work in, granted himself with freedom to explore materiality in nature. “Ephemeral” is the adjective he used to label his artworks. Traveling from place to place, Goldsworthy had to understand diverse attributes of his surrounding environments in a short time and make arts around it, photographing right after the work is completed. 

Source Link: http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html

 

Goldsworthy’s Artworks

 

Drawings

 

Prototype

Yiting (Brianna) Zhang is currently enrolling in the BFA program at Parsons, declaring her major as Fashion Design. She was born in Shanghai, China in 1999, the year of which significant changes on financial development and city planning were happening in Shanghai. In this city combined with the antiquated and modern culture, she finished her middle school and first year of the high school education. Then she spent three years in New Jersey, living with her host families and finishing her high school study at Union Catholic High School that was located in Scotch Plains, NJ. Throughout the years living with her host mother who is also an artist, she has been influenced and inspired by her a lot with regard to relationship between nature and humans. Since the first time when she got to deal with the volume and stories fabrics can create and tell, she has decided to dive deeper into playing with fabrics and fashion. She is also looking towards the sustainability in the fashion industry when fashion production has become one of the biggest threats to the environment. Accordingly, she believe that fashion can be reformed in a better direction and it can make certain changes to the world. Over the past years, she have obtained diverse skills and qualities, including strong leadership, playing percussion instruments, Latin dance, and of course, skills regarding to her current major, Fashion design.

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