Art and Design

Art and Design

Art and Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Butterfly and Lady

The sculpture reflects the artist's interest in humanity's connection with nature, contrasting physical reality with the spiritual realm. It symbolizes change and life's fleeting beauty by combining human and butterfly forms, highlighting the contrast between art's durability and nature's transience. The piece aims to capture and preserve transient beauty. Its intricate design features a contemplative woman adorned with butterflies, symbolizing freedom and transformation, with a marble-like bronze surface enhancing its aesthetic appeal.

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Endless Succession

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.

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Weightlessness

The 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.

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Waiting for the Wave in Metaverse

This artwork is a visualisation of the momentary shape of a wave in perfect shape for surfing that is aesthetically pleasing and gives the audience pleasant confusion simultaneously. It was created through a creative process between digital and physical, mixing reality and virtual reality in collaboration with EPFL. It attempts to generate an experience in nature and reaffirms the supple strength of human cognitive abilities that select aesthetic experiences actively to create a better future. A sense of human existence will remain unchanged forever, even in a future where reality is in chaos.

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Zen

Quilling 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.

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Heaven Bloom

“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.

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