Ying Gao

Ying Gao

is a fashion designer and also a proffessor. She gets inspiration of her clothing from

the transformations and social events that are going on around the world.

Most of her designs are inspired by architecture, urban design and multimedia; she combines

them to come up with a unique design.

Check sketchbook 'Ying Gao' page



 

One of her interactive projects had lights in her designs; of which are the ones that were inspired

by an essay called "Esthétique de la disparition" (The aesthetic of disappearance), by Paul Virilio (1979). "

It is made of photoluminescent thread and imbedded eye tracking technology, is activated by spectators' gaze. A photograph is said to be “spoiled” by blinking eyes – here however, the concept of presence and of disappearance are questioned, as the experience of chiaroscuro (clarity/obscurity) is achieved through an unfixed gaze.

PanGenerator (NECLUMI DIGITAL)

DIGITAL LIGHT JEWELLERY 

I found this, the other day, and I thought how creative and amazing it is. In simple words Pangenerator is an app that creats Neclumi jewellery with a projected light; in fact I find it so intriguing on how technology is coming into the art world more than before. This app can be found on the Apple Store, you want to know how it works? Then check out this website and you'll have all the information you need about
it.                                                           



http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/13/pangenerator-neclumi-projected-light-necklace-jewellery/

2015 "INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT"

 

2015 has been set as a year of light all over the world and I think it is a great choice. Reflecting on light, trully it is everywhere; as years have gone by the knowledge in light of the world, as an overall, has improved and it has become a source that's used everywhere all the time that it has even become an unnoticable source.Infact, the world is starting to include light in opening ceremonies , in buildings and in art. Here are some pictures of light in the world:





   

Cricket World Cup

                                                                


Olympics 2010

Natural sunlight in a cave.



Natural sunset

Light in nature is my most favourite because it is so intriguing and attractive to see how nature can create light in such a colourful way; I love it. It is very unique and it creates a certain overview without anything being touched, to me is see light in nature as a freelance artist that finds inspiration itself.

One thing I'd like to mention is that there will be events around the world that involve this particular theme, as it is an international year of Light. This was launched in Spain a few days ago and this is what the opening ceremony looked like (see below).

There is an event , as far as I am concerned, in the Bath, UK, called "Illuminate 2015" and in this event they lit up a telephone boot and it looked so magnificent and amazing, it started on the 3rd of January and it will end on the 10th of January.




BATH ''ILLUMINATE 2015" UK.

JEWELLERY: COPPER & BRASS

COPPER

Copper is a basic chemical element and it has a reddish-orange colour due to it being a high thermal and electricity conductivity. This metal is mostly used for electrical wires, pipes and other home based objects, but it is also used to make jewellery and it can also be combined with zinc to make brass.

http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Jewellery
/set_matisse_renoir_greenstone.jpg

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This metal is mostly plated to be used for jewellery decorations after it has been processed. It is plated to give a clean shine and a more presentable, professional and wearable jewellery like this one on the left. In my own opinion this material in particular when I used for my own little samples I didn't like it because it didn't have that shine that brass had naturally without it being annealed. 

BRASS

http://images.naturalcollection.com/images/245364-
recycled-brass-serpentine-ring.jpg

As I mentioned previously brass is made out of copper added to zinc, depending on how much zinc is added to the copper, the colour can vary from a dark reddish brown to a light silvery yellow, so thinking about it brass is mostly considered as a copper alloy. However, I do prefer brass over copper due to it having that unique shine and gold colour. 

OVERALL...

I enjoyed using both materials that I used to make little samples, both are great to work with. In future, I would definitely use brass more than copper.

SOURCES: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Brass.html#

http://www.thomasnet.com/articles/custom-manufacturing-fabricating/plating-types

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plating

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Copper.html

                    

RON MUEK (SCULPTURE ARTIST)

Ron Muek is a sculpture artist.He studied at Royal Academy of Arts and he he was previously a model maker and puppeteer for childrens' television and films he worked as Ludo on the 1986 film Labyrinth. In my own opinion he's very talented artist who makes a models of human bodies in a realistic scale. His work is so unique to everybody else even though it

can sometimes be weird. I completely admire his work, honestly I've never

known an artist like him. 

This one is of his works that he made, he does use clay to make all these model human bodies.

I am overwhelmed by this piece to be honest, I completely admire it.

This is one in particular is my favourite one, I don't know why but if I had to guess the reason

it would be because I like the way these two models are very simple but unique and small, I also like the way he applied some face expressions to the models' faces. I would guess that is why I mostly admire it. The detail that is applied unto the models are sooo unique that I can't even 

express how I feel about them in my own words. It is simply AMAZING!

Finally, I would like to just point out this sculpture of his in particular, why?! because it is so effective the way everything in it looks so real. At first when I saw this, I just thought that

it was a real person who had cut himself and just posed in a picture

but when I looked at the picture closely, I realised that it was one of his works. 

OVERALL..

I must say there's no work of his that I hate or do not find overwhelming, like I mentioned before, his work is completely unique and amazing, outstanding, admirable. To be honest I do 

not think that anyone on this earth would actually hate his work, that's how great his sculptures are. If I was to choose this area in particular to specialise in, he would be my inspiration and my aim to be like one day.

SOURCES: www.google.com (for pictures)

                    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514500/Are-life-like-sculptures-produced-    Artist-creates-hyper-realistic-models-humans.html

CERAMICS (Group Work)

These two towers that I made along with other people in my group, were the two things that I enjoyed doing the most, the reason is because it was something very different that we had ever done over these few months and it was also fun to do. 

For the first tower me and other couple of people decided to make a princess tower, Repunzel's tower from the Disney Movie called ''TANGLED''. We didn't get a chance to let it go through the process of drying and firing, but it was great to do and I really enjoyed building it up.We used a carton tall tube of about at least 30-40 cm long and we wrapped newspaper around the tube to prevent the clay to stick to the actual tube. To build up the actual tower, we used the coil technique of which was very easy, fast and simple to do as we used a machine to turn the clay into big long sausages, those clay sausages were attached to the tube, wrapped in newspaper, very tight to it to form a tower. After so, we smoothed it out with our fingers and a tool called ''kidney'' that is used to smooth out the clay around without creating lumps etc. The face of Repunzel was made through a Barbie mould and the hair was done through the ''spaghetti'' tool.

 I honestly liked it and to be honest I didn't know that we were capable of doing such a tower. it was fantastic.











The other tower that me and other people did in one group was a person sat down on the chair. To make this clay person we used one of our partner in our team to pose and so we tried our best to make the clay person look exactly like her. This one, is my favourite out of all of the things that I did in ceramics, because it showed to us , and in particular to me, how much we are capable of doing amazing things when you're in a team of people who are hard-working and creative.

DIFFERENT STAGES OF OUR MODEL:

We measured different pieces of wood on her entire body to make sure we got right proportions

We then attached the different pieces together to make the structure of the person.

We then started to apply some clay to it but at some point we kind of realised how
the shoulders weren't at the right place, which is why we started to compare it
to whom we were trying to make the model from. 

When we fixed the problem we wont on and added hair to it, applied more clay
around it, smoothed it out with our fingers, some slip and a kidney.

AND THIS WAS THE FINAL MODEL:

EVALUATION:                                                    

When I compare it to the actual person, what I've realised is that it looks very similar which is why this one was my favourite ceramic project I've done in a day, to be honest me and my group did a great job and I think If we had to do anything else in future as a group it would be something much greater than this. If there's anything that me and my group would improve about it, it would be the proportion; as you can see the legs are a bit too long and look like small sticks, another thing that me and my group would improve would also be the smoothness of the face and the arm, apart from that we are pretty happy about it.

CERAMICS (Samples)

Just a few weeks ago, I went into the ceramics rotations and I made few samples of clay with faces and hands and decorations on it. For the first sample I made got the face from a face mould and shaped it into the face that I wanted it to look like. That massive ''thing'' on it, is  a hand that's doing the peace sign over an eye and on other side I placed a baby's mould face on it and for the rest of the face I made and created different textures to create a patterned face. To be honest I did not plan to do this as it was a sample and I was experimenting. I really like this sample because it is strange, abstract, simple but interesting as I think, that is what I was aiming for. After It dried and it was fired , I believe done in a week, I applied some droplets of glaze on it and made it run through the face.





I made a second sample, which is very different and slightly feminine. The lips on there were done by me as there was no mould to do them from. Also, the spaghetti/hair pieces were done through a tool that allows you to form strands of little fine hairs with soft clay. I really like this one because it is simple but beautiful in my own opinion. The colour is one thing that makes me like it the most, for this one I did also paint sand pink glaze on it with a white glaze that would make it look smooth and shiny. Also, the letters were applied on
with letter moulds that I pushed into the clay.