Week 8: Space (architecture, form, dance)

Space is, I believe, that the most popular subject in sculpture area. It sounds very familiar, even friendly enough to recall what I had been working on the same subject when majoring sculpture while ago.

Back then, limitation of the materials I could utilize almost dictated me to come up with something very traditional such as stone or metal sculpture. Being 'flexible' to choose interesting material was not recommended at that time.

For this project, however, I decided to take courage. I chose to use several photos from my photographer friend who is studying at Brooks institute. A part of his works is about 'space and lighting' - just perfect for this week's project.

What I have done is making series of paper sculpture by using of printed photos. Each photo has already

contained 'space' such as shadowed building, framed scenery and etc.
After printing them on papers, I started crop out the shape I wanted to extract and formed in 3D shape by folding the lines.

This series of comparisons of two different spaces - three dimensional vs. flattened(by camera lens?) represents that the people's perception or educated concepts
about space might be fragile. Three dimension could be decomposed to two dimensional in very deceptive way. The opposite is also possible.