1. Breathing origami
This paper swan stirred her wings gently, and her inner light pulsated with a synchronized rhythm. The lightness cycle is based on exponential decay, which goes on steeper ramp when its value gets higher and suddenly fall down to the earth when it reaches its peak. Those characteristics make this light breathing, and remind me of heart pumping blood (Compared to the other onion skin candle with sin-dacay). The texture and movement together with the rhythm of light, all of this help to enhance its existence as a living creature, externalize some latent process which is fragile and ceaseless.
2. Drooping sculpture
These works droop, bundle and ooze, keep the trace of their making in hands-on approach, which help these works take on an organic, malleable and permanent form. The first sculpture remind me of the figure of giant whale and the uterus from a vulnerable mother. The second one is a famous piece from Alberto Giacometti. His figure is extremely tall and slender, with an eroded, heavily-worked surface. Many parts of a figure is reduces to its minimum, however the end of limbs, breasts, and lower abdomen is abundant and tangible. The head is like a knife. The reconstruction of this human figure help to convey the attitude of the artist towards human beings.
3. Life observation
The water boiler in my home can cast light on the boiling water and turn light off when it is boiled. The light is only reflected and showed on the surface of the inside bubbles and the top surface between the water and air. In this way the movement of water stirred the motion of light. The form of the medium who transmit light can become the form of the light. In this case the boiling water provides an ardent form as a medium, however the limitation is that the surface and content of water is too detached. Maybe add reflective pigments into the water can solve this problem. But still I’m curious about how James Turnell make his lightning pieces in the space looks so even and smooth, and it looks just as the air itself is the own source and diffuser of light. How to make a fluid medium as the carrier of light without using fluorescent materials would be the object on which I’ll continue my observation.
Another observation is inspired by what I saw in my restroom two weeks ago. The form is what I want to create and the layers of shadow may depends on the liquid and the container, which give me new possibilities to make this pattern designable.