wingfree-alis volat propriis
-we only part to meet again.
-sunshine. pecan pie. green. strawberry.
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the world in Chelsea
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/fred-wilson-venice-suite-sala-longhi-and-related-works WHY? …paintings made of glass? interesting; installation
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/iran-do-espirito-santo-switch WHY? glass, sculptures, and…we share the same name!
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/tom-burr-deep-wood-drive-sculpture WHY? materials + forms; CHILDHOOD experience..experience experience experience!
http://571projects.com/present WHY? unbalance; elements from surroundings; sculpture suspended (maybe i should try that too!)
http://chambersfineart.com/exhibitions/2012/WJA__NYC/image-1.shtml WHY? WOW i see colors…colors!
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Ooooops sorry I posted on my other tumblr. Didn’t realize until today..
So um just want to add a few things since I posted this on Monday. Epoxy resins are here now and I started working on it yesterday. I found two clean plastic cups and mixed the resin with 2:1 ratio and poured it onto the broken glass which is placed in a big basket. Too bad I think I poured too much. When I came back later and see the results, seems like all the resin has come to the bottom of the basket….dont know how that is going to work out :/
(from Monday)
I just finished breaking all the glass into pieces—need to find an easier and faster way to shatter them because this is so much time-consuming and if I want it to work out I have to make it faster and more efficient. Googled online and saw that if I frame the glass and use a more pointy hammer I might be able to shatter the glass faster. To be honest I don’t know how much work I can finish by the senior thesis show, so I need to find better a way to shatter glass ASAP. Still thinking and experimenting along the way, but I think as long as I put in time things will work out.
-The enD-
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Senior Thesis #1
A few days had passed since the end of winter term when I got Mr. Harrison’s report for winter term. Not a good grade, but the suggestions were great, which made me finally decide to focus on and expand on ONE idea instead of a trillion of them. Tough choice tough choice, I finally chose my very first idea for the school year—making glass sculpture—to be my senior thesis.
Well…why am I always interested in glass? (didn’t know that this has always been the answer that Mr. Harrison is looking for!) when I was little, maybe three maybe four, I dropped a glass cup on the floor at home. Not wanting my mum to notice the crime I had just committed, I tried to pick up the broken glass with my hand. You know what happened…a deep cut on the right thumb, deep enough to even see the bone. Of course my mom heard me crying, so the attempt to destroy the evidence of my crime failed, and I not allowed to touch the glass— not even to approach the windows because they are made of glass—for a month. After that for a long time my mum still got paranoid when she saw me standing next to the window.
But it was because that I was not allowed to approach that made me always interested in glass. To me they seemed to be dangerous, but dangerous in a way that they seemed potentially beautiful as well.
So for this project I decide to make glass sculptures and lamps. First I am going to break glass into pieces, and then I will put them into a basket and pour in epoxy resin. The resin will penetrate down into the glass and eventually forms an unexpected shape of sculpture. (CHANCE right there) you see, the broken glass can distort the light sent out by the lightbulb from inside of the sculpture, and I would never know how it would look like!
I have a rough draft for how I am going to display my works: the very first thing viewers see should be the broken cup in front of them, and the set up should make it look like a crime scene, with the broken cup being the murdered person(cup), and fingerprints or footprints around, and some other evidence. The rest of the sculptures should be displayed some distance away from the dead cup, but not too far that the viewers regard them as two groups of artworks. For the rest I haven’t come up with a clear plan yet, but I will figure out soon. Wish me luck!
-The enD-
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project #8 mask
MASK. what’s behind the mask? this was the first thing i thought when i saw the assignment. i believe its darkness. because you are wearing a mask you are covering your real identities. so your real identities stay in darkness.
this was my first time using spray paint. and it turned out to be great. the blackness was complete and smooth on the canvas so i wouldn’t get a rough surface like i do when i use acrylic to paint the canvas all black. then i used white charcoal to draw on it. i wanted to use the black and white contrast to imply the contrast between real self and fake mask.
this project specifically reminded me of the theory of Id, ego and super-ego. next term if possible i want to expand on this project as well and create an artwork that interprets my view of Id, ego and super-ego. and of course i will integrate “mask” as part of my idea.
-wingfree 乾夏-
-The enD-
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project #7 OBSESSIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
im obsessed with colors and glass. COLORS AND GLASSSSSSSSSSS.
so for this project i just came up with the idea of pouring paint into glass. that might sound what anyone can do. so i had a hard time thinking how i could make it unique. the i thought of cocktail wine.. maybe i could just pour paint to create multiple layers. this is different from my project #2 because that one the layers are horizontal viewed. for this one i want it to be vertically viewed layers like cocktails.
this is the effect i wanted to achieve. 
i did a lot of research and learnt that to create the layers i need to pour paint of different density. so i mix house paint with different amount of water. i was glad that at least i succeeded however i thought i could do better. i dont think if it was because of the medium (house paint) that made it really hard for the layers beneath to hold the layer above…so a few days after the top two layers got mixed and never looked like a cocktail anymore..i hope if next term or in spring i have more time i can work on a similar project again to pour more layers. that would be GREATTT
-wingfree 乾夏-
-The enD-
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project #6 in class project
we did an in-class project a long ago (sorry i’ve been slacking on updating my tumblr…)
we were told to use a piece of paper and create a sculpture without any other materials. 80 minutes. anywhere in/outside swig. no glue no color. scissors and fishing lines were allowed.
i was really conservative on this project. i wanted to make something that is more geometric (since all my past projects were not as symmetrical or geometrical) that looks like a lantern.
it turned out to be okay, but was far off my expectation though…and i was the last one to finish the project (not good at time management)
honestly i wasn’t satisfied with this artwork at all. but i learnt a lot too, including the difficulty to use just one material in an artwork and the importance of time management in art making.
-wingfree 乾夏-
-The enD-
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look back… don’t be nostalgic
i started off with crazy ideas of melting and breaking glass or pouring paint in the beginning of this term and headed to a direction i had never expected at all…i still remember in september i was imagining what my artworks would be in november exhibition: it would be ALL TEMPERED GLASS sculptures. and apparently i was wrong.. what i put out in the exhibition were two sculptures, one made with a typewriter and canvas and the other one commonplace objects. i’d say i still don’t want to give up my obsession of glass arts but right now i am quite satisfied about where i am heading as well: it gives me a completely fresh view of other materials/mediums i can use and also the way i use them.
with objects we encounter daily or in the past artworks themselves interact with the viewers because they are something the viewers have experience with. what these objects represent to us is personal and varies among people. therefore contrast to broken glass, these artworks become much more interactive merely on emotional level. then i tried to make them interactive physically: listen to the music played or type on the typewriter. through all these progress and trial-and-error i realize how important the interaction between viewers and artwork is and i will continue to follow and expand on this idea next term.
BIGGEST FAILURE…
well as i said trial and error was one thing that ALWAYS happened during in my art making. i remember in the beginning i never wanted to listen to mr. harrison and insisted on making glass art. apparently that turned out be a disaster because of my lack of experience with glass making and also the limit of equipments. i spent over 10 hours breaking glass for my first project and ended up ruining the whole project.. from then on i learned that whatever i wanna do i need to take into account of the materials and available equipments in order to achieve the best effects of the artwork.
BIGGEST TRIUMPH…
my last project is my pride. i love it because it turns out to be exactly what i wanted. (maybe not as tall as i had expected but that could be my next approach) after getting familiar with spray paint i started to experiment on spray painting gray on all my objects and it turns out to be terrific because of the effects of deindividualization (learnt this in psychology and i think it applies to a lot of the conceptual ideas i am forming in honors studio right now)
i did surprise myself because this whole term i’ve been experimenting and to be honest. a lot of my artworks disappointed me and i started to get frustrated really easily and questioned my artistic ability. i think this sculpture gives me a little bit hope and hope that this could be a good start
NEXT? NEXT NEXT? NEXT NEXT NEXT?
i still don’t want to give up my first idea of making a crystal candle out of broken glass and i think that is the most realistic idea among all my crazy plans. besides that i hope i could expand on “scream” (last project), making it bigger and taller, and maybe a lighter gray spray paint (i feel like the lightness might give the sculpture a sense of lightness as well) last but not least i really want to start on my pouring paint machine project as well. this might be my most challenging project but i really look forward to seeing how it will look like when im done.
QUESTIONS…
#1 WHY did you include all the quotes on the wall? (Are they part of your statement, the work, or something else?)
id say they are both part of the statement and the work. because i read quotes often so when i was making the sculpture i was actually thinking about these quotes as well. i think quotes have the power to inspire viewers more because they are short and never contains enough information, leaving the viewers to form their own interpretations. they express what i want to say about the artwork and at the same time they become a indispensable part of the artwork as well.
#2 DO you think the art would have the same impact without the songs?
definitely not. im sure about that because that’s part of the reason i named it “scream”. the grayness silenced any possible sound because it gives a sense of heaviness and despair. however if given a headphone they will scream out everything they want to say. i can’t really explain why i chose these songs. but certain objects in the artwork reminds me of a song out of no reason (call it intuition..) so i put them together. several people have told me that these songs actually make sense after they saw the sculpture. i was really happy to know that.
#3 WHY dark gray? why not a different color?
um…honestly. because that was what i was given. i wanted gray at first to use as a primer but i didnt really think of if i wanted dark gray or light gray because i was planning to spray white paint onto it. then it turns out to be really good so i just left it gray. a different color…i would want to try light gray if i get a chance next time. i think certain colors evoke certain emotions (psychologist proved that) in the future i might want to try red, blue, white, dark and yellow…
-wingfree 乾夏-
-The enD-
