Art Review : Handcrafted Luxury by Disha Seth

21 August 2015

Last Thursday I visited the Graduate Diploma Art and Design course final show, I was impressed by the glass work named " Handcrafted Luxury" by Disha Seth.

There is a one glass bottle displays in the dark room that use only one light to illuminate. At the first time that I saw this work, I thought the work's shape was a ladybug but it doesn't. Disha said that her inspiration was from the tear drop and use the movement of water flow to create a form, the colours were also inspired from fluidity of water which were blue and white. Moreover, she said that she had taken 4-5 months for this work that include lots of experiments before she done the final work. Disha's final work is a perfume bottle which use the Art Nouveau style to design.

 "Handcrafted Luxury", Disha (2015)

Furthermore, Disha tried to make her work become more luxury by using a dark background with one light, which she said that it looked like the entering of exquisite showroom. Personally, I think her aims is successful because when I had walked in her space, I felt like I was in ' What is Luxury? Exhibition' at the V&A museum, whether it be the artwork or atmosphere. Moreover, I really like the shape and colour that can express how the movement of tear drop in her imagination looked like. So I think she succeeded to create the the luxury perfume bottle. Hope to see her around when the main course start!!! :)  

TED TALK: Building the Seed Cathedral

20 August 2015

How do I think about the connection between aesthetic design and eco-friendly implication can change architecture and the world?

I think eco-friendly can lead the way to create and design that make not only product but also architecture more unique. Furthermore, the building that combine between eco and aesthetic can make people realize to the important of nature.

If I have a chance to help my cities become more eco-friendly and more sustainable, I will start to campaign people to use product from eco-friendly such as eco car and eco bike.
Moreover, I will encourage people to build eco house which use solar energy.

MAKER (2014) Review

13 August 2015


In your life, have you ever wanted to create something?

Since I was young I wanted to create something by myself to use it. I have pursued my dream, now I can make my own ceramics by my hand!!!!

"Maker" is a documentary about the movement of maker which impacts on society, culture and economy in the U.S. 

In my opinion, this documentary made me realize about the crucial things about maker. I think everyone can be a maker just think and start do it. For example, one of the interviewer is only a little girl but she can made an electric product by herself, another interviewer produced the product from leftovers and unused items. I think making a valueless things become more value or create somethings by yourselves are make more value in that product. As I mention, I think the value is not only the product but also the process whether it be thinking, making and solving process. Moreover, There is a website called "Shapeways" in this documentary that make people's ideas become true by using 3D printing. I think this website is really phenomenal because even some people have some idea, they don't know the way to create, so it encourages people to think a product.

So do you want to be a maker?....... Just think and do it!!!

Project 3 - INTROSPECTION (J&C)

10 August 2015

Project 3 is"Art and Activism: Linking Continents, Bridging Culture", I have to do this project as a group. My group name is "J&C" which means Jewelry and Ceramics. We have decide to make project about "Identity", make the question " Who am I " that make people realize about themselves. We think that if everyone can accept themselves, they can have more confidence and tolerance because accepting background and ourselves mean we accept that we are different from others. Moreover, our aim is to help people find the value of themselves which is self-acceptance.

My responsibility of this project is proposal coordinator, which I have to manage the part of proposal to members and organize and check the proposal. I found that it quit difficult to organize every part of proposal from members because everyone have their own way to write and have some different opinion that made me hard to find the connection between each part. Moreover, members have had lots of idea which made the total exceed 1,000 words, hence it extremely difficult to shorten the article that some sentences I have to delete and summarize. Besides, we found that language is the big problems because we have to share and express our ideas in English which is very difficult and sometimes made us misunderstand some points. However, I have learnt to organize and write the proposal that is very important in future. Furthermore, the most important thing that I gain is experience to work as group, we have learnt lots of things from each other such as collaboration, discussion and tolerance which is the crucial thing to collaborate. This experience will be my precious memory!!!

I really glad to be part of this group J&C.

:)

Finally, even audiences may not find the best answer "Who am I?" through this project, trying to find an answer and realization about their own identity is our success.

.... Now your turn, can you find an answer " WHO ARE YOU?"

Ai Weiwei : "Remembering" (2009)

30 July 2015

Today I have seen the movie "Ai Weiwei Never Sorry" which was about the artist named Ai Weiwei, he is a famous Chinese artist and also political activist. His work represents of social justice and political in China.

"Remembering" (2009)

"Remembering" (2009) is the Ai Weiwei's work that commemorate the victims who were buried underneath of collapsed school in the Sichuan earthquake. Because of negligence in the building of schools, there were over 4,000 children perished that Ai Weiwei was able to research the name and published on his blog. In this work, he used 9,000 backpacks and five colour; red, yellow, blue, green, and white to create the Chinese sentence from the mother's victim on facade which was " She lived happily for seven years in this world". I think he want to remind people to recall the children and especially, provoke people to think about the substandard building that there was some corruption behind.

"Remembering" (2009)

This work reminds me about some negligent buildings in my country such as flat and office building that there are business and government corruption behind, the owner want to make only a profit without considering about the safety of an occupant or even a laborer. Last year there were the flat was collapsed that made a laborer died while they were working. Whereas, there was on one paid attention to them just read from news and forgot about it after that. I think maybe because they are a laborer that made no one treated as important situation which is discrimination problems and especially social inequality in my country. I think the way that Ai Weiwei presented that really powerful and make people to realize about association of life and corruption problems.

Art Review: " The map of my memory" by Apirata Kuantana

23 July 2015

"The map of my memory" by Apirata Kuantana

Apirata Kuantana is the student from Foundation course at UCA which progress to BA Illustration. This exhibition is the final project before she will finish this course in this month. She chose to do the project about her hometown memory which is the province in North-East Thailand called 'Nan'. Moreover, she aim to attract an audience to fascinate in Northern Thai culture and influence to visit there. 

"The map of my memory" Apirata Kuantana (2015)

In this work, she used Polaroid frame to express her illustration of childhood in Nan because she thought Polaroid is a photo that subtle and blurry like her childhood memories in hometown. In the vivid pictures, she painted about places that she has been there and used to such as Buddhist temple, restaurant, and market. Furthermore, there is the picture puzzle that look like a man and a woman, which she said that is the tradition panting from a temple's wall. Besides, she used the another way to express her memories by drawing her family and friends in black and white colours. The difference things between vivid colour pictures and black and white pictures except colours are details and techniques because she painted only places in colour pictures and more details, but in black and white pictures, she drew a portrait without particulars. I think she wants to make an audience focuses on the places according to her aim that she want to show the beautiful places in her hometown and she also want to express her memories which include her friends and family. Furthermore, in the white frames, we can see the piece of paper which look like burn paper inside the frame. If we look at the each frame, we couldn't predict what is the meaning or appearance but if we step backward and see the holistic, we could see that is look like a map. She said that holistic of the white frames is the shape of Nan's map. 

Sketch book of "The map of my memory" Apirata Kuantana (2015)

I think her work is successful because when I saw her work I want to go to Nan, even I'm also Thai people, I never go there. I can see the culture and precious memories in her work that made me miss my hometown so much which is capital city named Bangkok. Even Nan and Bangkok are in the same country but we have quite different atmosphere that she can express the attractive angle of Nan about culture and living. Finally, if I have a chance to go back to my country, I'll visit Nan by following her memories pictures!!     

“ Finding Ways to Lose Yourself ” : Peter Kuper

15 July 2015

 “ Finding Ways to Lose Yourself ”

Today I have attended the Lecture about “ Finding Ways to Lose Yourself ” which is how the journey, being lost and filed trip crucial for discover the unexpected idea and inspiration to develop my creative mind. Furthermore, there were some example the artist who succeed from their journey experience. Peter Kuper is the artist that I chose to mention about because I was impressed by his unique illustration style and also his journey!  

Peter Kuper is an famous American cartoonist, illustrator as well as political and social observation. His illustration works has published regularly in magazine which are Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and MAD, where he illustrates SPY vs. SPY every month.  Besides, he has written and illuminated about his own journey experience and political such as Comics Trips, Diario de Oaxaca and World War 3 illustrated.

Fig. 1. Peter Kuper's comics trips; A Journal of Travels through Africa and Southeast Asia (1992)

He has traveled wildly through Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, which he gathered his experience to illustrate the book named Comics Trips: A Journal of Travels Through Africa and Southeast Asia. Moreover, he and his family moved to the Mexico state of Oaxaca for 2 years, whereas, in that time he was in the epicenter of Mexico’s biggest political struggle in recent years. Thus he started drawing and writing what he was seeing around him which became the book named Diario de Oaxaca (see fig.1)

He gained lots of thing from exploration while his journey that he could apply for create his own extraordinary book. For example, he presented the one part distinct vision of Oaxacan life from the fight between strikers and government troops by using the vivid colour to paint graphic portrayals. In my opinion, Journey lead people to explore new situation and different aspect from another places.

Figure 2, "Building" (2013)

Besides the artwork about the journey, He also illustrates about the world current situation such as crime, global warming, discrimination, education and military.

In the work named "Building" (see fig.2), he shown the crime in the capital city that the  four man represent as the businessman who can control the building as well as everything in the town. The building on the businessman hands could move easily as they want because they have a power to do, which is expressed by using the man are bigger than the building and the way that those eyes are looking at.  

In my opinion, I think this picture represent the corruption behind business that  realize me to the similar situation in my country. Moreover, I think this picture can make the audience aware of the truth that the corruption and crime are concealed from influential person. 

So..Do you want to lose yourself and start the new unforgettable journey?? Don’t forget to bring your sketchbook and colour pen, perhaps you’ll get the new excited story for you own book!!!    

List of Illustrations

Figure 1. Peter Kuper (1992). Kuper Peter Kuper's comics trips; A Journal of Travels through Africa and Southeast Asia [Cover] 
At: http://www.peterkuper.com/comix/C-n-B2.html (Accessed on 15.7.15)

Figure 2. Peter Kuper (2013). Building. Drawn to New York. [Illustration]
At: http://www.peterkuper.com/StockIllustration/directory.html (Accessed on 15.7.15)