Hua Wen, Kao_Portfolio

Hua Wen, Kao

Exhibition Designer / Visual Merchandiser / Artist

The line between you & me

The line can be an invisible line drawn in mind by legal boundaries, society, and misunderstandings; lines can be divided from darkness to bright. This exhibition is from the first person perspective, to let our kids to tell their stories. Visitors can go through the lines in their hearts and understand we all have the responsibility to bring hopes and dreams back to our kids, to make them believe in themselves.

Hope is always in our hearts as long as you across the line.

National Justice Museum

National Justice Museum

Audiences

Experience seekers and families

Since the Audience Spectrum shows the data, the people surrounding by the museum most of them are experience seekers, and the age of the visitors are most under 35 years old, so definitely the target audiences for this exhibition.

Bubble Floor Plan

Subjects

‘Juvenile In-Justice’ will be a photography exhibition featuring the work of Californian photographer and activist Richard Ross.

It will include crowed sourced perspective and response from social media and community conversations, alongside archive materials from the museum’s historic records relating to children and young people incarcerated. There is budget for a commission for a young photographer with lived experience of the criminal justice system to join this project team and have their work profiled.

Emotional Map

Installation VOICES

The installation to represent the one bright thing that stands out in darkness, and by experiencing this installation, being inside will give people a space to see and think deeply about the world while listening to the nature and emotions connected that we have lost.

The electrical current, or frequency, inside the installation is what makes the light shine, just like our frequency makes us connect to each other and to nature.

Site Research

I went to High Line three times for research, to see what people doing over there. It makes me wonder, why people trying to ignore the sounds? The voice from our natural environment.

Handmade Model

Using wires to present the line feel and learn from the natral environment in HighLine.

Logo development

I close my eyes to feel the voices by hand drawing lines, and using the elements to develop my logo.

Experience

See

Visitors will see the pure plain color, irregular shape inside out. It will be bright at night.

Do Interacting with sensor lights and hearing the sounds from different bubbles.

Feel

The installation is a plain color, so visitor can feel more impact of sounds, and make a connection with their personal experience.

Day time

All of five bubbles will be sensor light, it will light up when people stand beneath it. Each of them has different color temperature, match each of the voices.

Night time

They will all light up, like a bright guider to New York City.

Appendix

Using social media to engage people about the exhibition and also be an free advertisment for this installation.

Say Cheese

Installation

This is a fun playground installation made for visitors with their dogs to participate together. It inspired by the diversity of cheese shape, color, and flavor.

Visitors can observe and feeling diverse cheese by the visual, sounds, and smell experienced in each section. This playground will make visitors have fun, enjoy, and had an unforgettable emotions connected with their fur friends.

Site Research

Madison Square Park located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and 23rd Street in Manhattan.

Also there is a shake shack in front of the park.

People with dogs walking inside. Walking through the senser touch floor, to see and to hear the melted cheese

How to make the EXPERIENCE?

People and dog all can have the sense of experience from visual, touch and sound , so during this common sense, foucus on my design can make them all through this installation to have fun together.

Main area, containing three experiences.

People can put the buttom to learn the cheese history , also people and dogs can smell different favor of cheese They can get a giveaway in the final area.

People eat & relax

People with dogs Parents with kids Office worker

Audiences

People spend time in Madison Square park to relax, to play with kids, and to walk with dogs ; also lots of office workers pass by to take subway people with dog

primary secondary

general people in city

Floor Plan

People can seat the cheese chair to relax, dog can also underneath it . Also it can be a running area for dog.

People can touch different texture of cheese .

Dog can play and run through the cheese hole.

Logo Development

Component & Appendix

cheese cookies

Dog friendly ingredients, also the shape is made with triangle cheese.

Gain the experience for peoople and dogs to smell the different cheese favor.

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SAHEESE Y

Lovely giveaway for dogs, also people can taking picture with their fur friends.

EHEESSA Y

social media

Post your experience on social media, to make your friends to know this exhibition, also to keep the memories.

A C B

D

A introduce the history of cheese & the interactive wall

B touch different texture of chesses

C sound and immersive of multed cheese

D give away to make people engage the experience

Symbiosis

Oil Painting

Paul Cézanne once said, “Painting doesn’t mean blindly to duplicate the reality, it means to seek the harmony among the various relation.” With this concept, I try to find the balance between abstract and reality.

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Flowing

Pastel Painting

have always wondered where the water goes after going into the underground sewer system.

Art is a way of expressing your feeling and inspiration from my daily life. try to find my answers in small things in life.

“ To see, to feel the world from your heart, and you will find your own treasure.”