THE INSPIRACTION

The acquaintance between the East and the West is far longer than people imagined.

Tea, like the fragrance of tea itself, is a continuous clue between East and West.

In the early intercontinental logistics network, the most important traded product was tea.

It is precisely because of tea that the most precious products of the East and the West can circulate mutually: Chinese tea and Renaissance paintings

MASTER PLAN & ROUTE

Once, Chinese tea appeared in the parlors of European aristocrats, people tasted tea in front of the paintings of the Renaissance.

Today, precious European works of art come to a Chinese special tea gardens for people to appreciate the beauty of Western art.

SCENE TWO: INTO THE PAINTING

Start with the picture frame and enter the exhibition I process the entrance in a dramatic way, so that a picture frame extends infinitely and becomes a road that can lead to the exhibition and an art door to be traversed. The outermost part of the frame is white in line with the gallery exhibition hall. As the color gradually deepens, the world behind us gradually recedes, and we arrive at the last golden classical frame and cross into the palace of the masters.

SCENE THREE: THE TEA GARDEN MAZE

SCENE ONE: DOORS OF THE WORLD AND HOME

I designed a tea garden maze based on the traditional Chinese tea garden form combined with contradictory space. The complex deformed geometric structure is full of strong mystery and imagination, so The viewer is unconsciously immersed in the infinite loop space. Stairs are interlaced with each other, and the picture frames are suspended in the air or stand on the ground, breaking the limitations of space. The boundary between time and space is dispelled. Chinese tea culture and the top western painting art meet here across time, space, and countries. In these dislocation spaces, viewers can feel the artistic collision of top Western famous paintings with Eastern tea, and then rethink the relationship between masters.

SCENE FOUR: TEA PARTY IN THE GARDEN

On the way to the art gallery, there is a long and narrow stone path with hundreds of thousands of old trees on both sides of the road. Doors of different styles are installed on both sides of the path. Some can pass through normally, and some are mirrored. The space intersects alone with the opening and closing of the door. Looking out is the world, walking back is the hometown, and the story happened at this time...

In the West, gatherings to discuss art are called "salons". In the East, gatherings to explore philosophy through tea are called "Yaji".

Combine the two forms through the afternoon tea room. The exhibition ends when the afternoon tea ends. Welcome back to the real world with good memories.

The Hope

An Interaction Art Installation Design For 12th SOLANA Light Festival

Interaction Art Installation Design Location: Solana, Beijing, China

An individual work project Design date: September-November, 2020

As the unpleasant and ill-fated 2020 is finally coming to an end, people are looking forward to the coming of the New Year in all kinds of emotions.

At the end of 2020, I am honored to cooperate with SOLANA to design the main installation of the light festival for them.

My starting point is to use this interaction installation to illuminate the hope in people's hearts. The light of hope is like a deep sea flame, bursting out of the surrounding danger, and accompanies people to march towards the new year.

The Origin Of The Theme

The starting point of the design is to bring hope and happiness to people through the interaction installation.

Crawling Weibo text data to get the four most discussed positive words in 2020, which are HOPE, LOVE, PEACE and JOY.

Before the design, in order to make the design content not so subjective, I conducted an online questionnaire survey on the design style, allowing people to choose the time period they most want to travel to. Among them, the 80s when person swings and roller skating with the disco in the dance hall have become the era that people most want to travel to.

Their substitutes

As the main skin decoration, the wind panel can produce disco ball's effect with the wind and reduce the load-bearing pressure of the truss frame.

The plasticity and weight of optical fiber outdoors in winter are better than neon lights.

The lower part of the site is a fountain, which is cheaper to transform into an ice arena.

Renderings

Rendering Video Link: https://vimeo.com/478641566

During the build process

Renderings

During the build process

Photographs

This art installation was completed on November 4 and put into use until March 1, 2021. In order to make the installation more interesting, I cooperated with the construction conpany and set up a light emitting method: ten people standing in front of the installation hand in hand can change the light color of the installation. As the COVI-19 is still popular today, I hope this device can link people’s hearts in some way.