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To interpret the image of endless succession, the Xinxian Waterfall is the theme and is combined with the diversified ecological species in Neidong, including the Grey-chinned Minivet, Formosana Begonia, Elatostema platyphylloides, Giant Elephant's Ear, Wulai Azalea, and emerald tree frogs, among other flora and fauna. The Atayal totems are also interwoven to symbolize the coexistence between the Atayal people and the life nurtured by the local forest.
Continue readingThe project is an immersive spatial experience video installation. The theme is weightlessness, which is originally a physical concept, through the clever visual transformation and multi-media integration, to create a new visual experience for the audience. The work Weightlessness is a metaphor for modern urban life, ecological environment, and people's feelings and states in real life. The designer hopes that the audience can feel a weightlessness state during the visit, reflecting on their own situation and confusion in urban life.
Continue readingQuilling is a paper roll art technique that uses paper strips to make circles, curves by curling and folding, paste them on cardboard to present the 3D effect of the work. This work of art used 1 cm wide colored paper strips, to make large and small rolls to draw lines with dots, draw surfaces with lines, make dense paper rolls through a variety of permutations and combinations of size, shape, color contrast. She tried various methods to find a way that can express gradient colors, and finally made this rolled paper work break the paper's restrictions on gradient colors.
Continue reading“Heaven Bloom” is located in the lobby of a building which was designed with concept of nature. The installation is composed of 144 mechanical metal flowers which were made of aluminium and stainless steel, different finishes were applied to metal in order to produce special textures and colors. The metal flowers will be in bloom out of the surface and become a dynamic piece collocated with the ambient sounds. Different patterns and movements allow flowers create a near-natural scenario indoors, building a simulation of a phenomena in nature.
Continue readingAn ephemeral art installation inspired by the "Midas touch", composed by 1.000.000 golden sequins to attract good luck and fortune! To create a tunnel effect were used different size chains from 1 to 6 meters long that move with the wind, shine and create reflections in the surrounding area, depending on the incidence of light. Hidden in the middle of the golden dots, 2880 meters of golden led light curtains light up in the night involving the viewer by transforming their state of mind!
Continue readingPop Star is based on the geometric shape of the icosahedron. Through the deconstruction of space and the reconstruction of form, the artist finally constructed this 'monster' with a huge volume that exceeds the human visual reading scale, like an alien object flying in from another dimension of time and space. Viewers could feel the association between the Pop Star and transcendental theory that Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The world globes itself in a drop of dew, while the artist enlarges a tiny compound eye into a behemoth.
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