[Week 6] 23022016_About the project.

Project: Escape from Toilet

✑ Concept

We want others to aware of the stereotyped of gender they have, which they may not notice. Since toilet is a private place for dividing the gender, we use male and female toilets on the 6/F for composing the installations in order to emphasize the wrong "gender differences" people usually have.

Sometimes, people should treat people with other genders equally and not to discriminate others because of their stubborn mind.

▼ Sanitary napkins on the male urinals represents the male who wants to become girls and they are laughed because of the female actions, like bring sanitary napkins.

▼ We have misconception on the colors for different genders, which will cause people to enter the wrong toilet.

▼ Imitating the boy toilet in female toilet, like peeing on the wrong position and having a boy's underwear on the wire.

[Week 5] 16022016_About the development of the installation project.

✑ Today is my birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY first!

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✑ (Draft) Concept of our project

The work of Dieter Roth/ Björn Roth inspires me a lot. The artist uses the whole exhibition area as the artwork of his studio. He made good use of the space and let people immerge into the installation. 

We want to do the same thing as him -- using the whole space of the male and female toilets to make the arts. 

People always have stereotype about the gender or clarify their gender with a clear line. Some people may even bully counterparts with other gender, like intersex. However, when we are young, we do not have that concept and can stay with everyone happily without knowing their gender.

Therefore, we exchange the properties of the female and male toilets. For examples, changing the girl toilet sign into blue color, boy toilet sign into pink, playing gossip TV programe in male toilet and sport competition in female toilet. 

We want people to think about why the favorite color of boys cannot be pink or why girls are called rude when they love watching sports. We want the public to have a deeper reflection on the gender after walking into our installation.

[Week 4] 02022016_About compositing objects.

✑ In-class exercise: Create a composite object

Using the objects that you have brought in class, create a composite object and give it a title. 

Expired Erhu 

Using everyday objects, such as the clips for closing the bread package (the yellow one on the top), glasses box, memo and lipstick, I imitated the shape of Chinese instrument Erhu. 

I borrowed incense from my classmate and used it as the bow of Erhu. 

I used wires to make the bow originally. However, it is too small and does not stand out. Incense is larger in size so it will be emphasized when it is put near the imitated Erhu (like the photo shown). 

As I learnt form the last lesson, isolation of the object's normal use can form a stunning effect. The incense cannot lit up anymore and lose its original function. I do think this combination funny! 

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✑ Reflection on the lesson:

Though this kind of exercise makes me feel frustrated sometimes. However, I like the process of thinking other uses of an object and the creepy result it comes out finally. It is a good way to practice my imagination and I may get some inspiration for the future artworks.

[Week 3] 26012016_About surrealism.

✑ In-class work: Clay and object exercise

For The King of Greed

Taking the everyday objects -- one dollar coin and a golden ring as the materials for this exercise. 

I tried to think about the similarity and differences between these two object in order to combine them together by clay. The ring is in golden and shiny, which makes me associate to the gold and expensive things. Expensive things make me link to money so I used the dollar coin to symbolize money and price. 

Finally, I came up with the idea of a golden money ring which is for the people who love money a lot. Using the dollar coin as the upper surface, it is linked with the golden ring by using clay in rose shape. Rose is beautiful but has sticky thorns, which means the danger behind the beauty. Therefore, I want to convey a message that though the money ring (representing wealth) looks attractive and many people want it, it can be very dangerous when people wear it as some thorns (bad influences) are made on the ring. People need to sacrifice something to achieve the wealth. Sometimes, it can make people more greed and lose their mind.

Though it is a bit pity that I forgot to bring more objects for the lesson, this is a good chance to think out of the box and create things with a limitation. Sometimes, the limitation may lead to an unexpected idea too! 

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 ▼ A page comes from the tutorial note:

Q: Come up with a list of adjectives to describe the lines formed by the stickers.

A: irregular, random, transitional, black, dark, deep, bold, many, uneven, clean, colored, thin, overlapped, emotional, accumulative, vertical, curvy, restricted, bound, infinitive

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✑ Reflection on the lesson:

I really find the idea of isolating an object from its normal way really fascinating. The artworks shown shocked me and I like how we should think and find the actual meaning in a different way. I will try to make arts with surrealistic style next time and do more weird works to inspire others. 

[Week 2] 19012016_About the formation comes from the deepest part of myself.

✑ Scanned in-class work

Your Nose

When I closed my eyes to shape the clay. I tried to feel the texture and make surface become uneven. 

After finishing it and opening my eyes, I found a nose on the table!

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Echo Tunnel

The music played in class is in a strong beats and sounds like an endless and long tunnel because of the echo sounds.

Therefore, I made the clay into a rectangle and some strings passes across the hole. 

Some holes were poked to make an uneven surface for representing the random melody of the song.

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My Brain

The object above is the clay I made to represent myself.

Due to the similar shape and my favor on eating apples,

I use a half of the apple surface as the cranium. It is stuffed with piles of strings to symbolize my mind. I want to show the messy and a high quantity of thought(strings) I have in my brain in order to let others know I am a person who thinks a lot and like eating fruits.

However, my classmates told me that the strings were placed well and thought I was I person with clear and well-organized mind, which is totally different from what I expected! Therefore, I do think there are too many rooms for improvement. For instance, the presentation of the strings is not appropriate. Moreover, I should think deeper about myself and should not use apple as one of the elements as it is too direct and not significant enough. 

After this lesson, I realized the most important and difficult thing is not the crafting of an artwork as it is quite technical, which can be trained, but the idea of it. It is difficult to convert a message or illustrate a thing, especially when you need to tell others about ourselves.

Maybe I need more time to understand myself.  

[Week 1] 12012016_About automatic writing. About paper transformation.

✑ Scanned in-class work: Automatic writing

                      

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