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Miniature Monument?

April 12, 2020 zixuanjozLeave a comment

Japanese artist Tanaka Tastuya started a project back in 2011 to create pocket-size scene of everyday life daily. I was blown away by his creative perspective of everyday objects and turning them into a scene.

“Transhumanism” — Matthieu Gafsou “H+”

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 zixuanjozLeave a comment

Transhumanism is an intellectual movement that aims to augment the human body through use of sciences and technique. Photographer Matthieu Gafsou explored the intimate relationship between human and technology in his exhibition “H+”. See all his exhibition at here: http://www.gafsou.ch/hplus

Marie-Claude Baillif has suffered from myopathy since adolescence. Without her respirator, she would have died thirty years ago. Her website features eloquent articles about her special relationship to technology: “My survival depends on microprocessors and electronic cards”; “Electricity is a matter of life or death for me”; “I love my phlegm aspirator”; “A little battery is magical; it transforms my life.” Technological devices keep her alive.

Inheriting the incubator means growing up in an immensely fragile environment that offers no guarantee outside those provided by the unsettling actions of knowledge, treatments, tubes, food, temperatures, and monitors. Instead of technically supporting desires for power turned towards the future, the incubator prompts the telling of another story, actively concentrating on a fragile present, a story woven from countless vital and uncertain relationships. Inheriting the incubator means insisting on remembering that technology and biology are committed to continuously building eminently precarious relationships.
Gabriel Dorthe in “Héritier de la couveuse,” A contrario, no. 22, bsnPRESS, 2016.

Will we have a virtual graduation ceremony this year?

Gif Artist – Simon Cooper

February 29, 2020 zixuanjozLeave a comment

Simon Cooper is a contemporary American artist and designer based in New York City. His page on GIPHY: https://giphy.com/simoncooper-07d3/.

I’m obssessed with the way he combines handdrawing with photos.

Collage Artist — Lance Letscher

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 zixuanjozLeave a comment

Lance Letscher is an artist based in Austin, Texas. He uses collage to tell story and preserve memory.

Relevant Artist – James Turrell

February 15, 2020 zixuanjozLeave a comment

James Turrell’s manipulation of simple geometry and light creates a spiritual space. I awared my emotion being influenced by these colors and geometries. I think each geometry has some meaning embedded in it.

Red in different opacity and cocentric circles brings a feeling of energy flow and anxiety.

Blue square conveys a sense of calm and stable.

Triangle? Mysterious….

Relevant Artist – Paul Klee

January 26, 2020 zixuanjozLeave a comment

Paul Klee is an Swiss-born German artist, influnenced by Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism (wikipedia). He caught my attention when I saw an artist on social media shared his 3600 pages of color and composition theory research notes. The notes are available here: http://www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org/ee/ZPK/BG/2012/02/23/006/. These are in German, but you can google translate.

He painted cityscape using vibrant colors and mosaic color blocks. Many of his works have collaged his impression of city. (See more at Paul Klee’s Wikiart page: https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/red-and-white-domes-1914)

This Red and White Domes painting reminds me of a building in the different times of a day.