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Commemorative Hands Sculpture

Commemorative Hands

Commemorative Hands is a series of contemporary glass sculptures. Each work presents a different shape of the human hand. The series draws on themes such as love, migration, longing and separation, which leave lasting marks on human life. Most pieces are made of semi-transparent colorless cast glass, formed by kiln casting from wax models and hand molds at real size. Antique metal and wood parts are added to suit each story and memory. Some glass forms resemble paper letters, with writing added by carving. The sculptures are exhibited in galleries.

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Go Together Painting

Go Together

Her design is giving a message that they must overcome division and go together. Lara Kim designed to make two groups to face and connect them. A lot of hands and feet attached to life objects represents a variety of directions. The black color means fear when they are in conflict with each other, and the blue color means hope to move forward. The sky blue color on the bottom means water. All entities in this design are connected and go forward together. It was drawn on a canvas and painted with acrylic.

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Echoes Sculpture

Echoes

The concept of "Echoes" comes from the image of the bounce of water droplets from the other side. It made of stainless steel and glass, after polishing the surface, will show the same characteristics as water. Sometimes you will find clouds in the sky flowing on it.In addition to being a artwork, it considers ergonomics in the planning of dimensions, allowing people to interact with Echoes at close range. At night, the lights hidden in the stainless steel water droplets, "Echoes" seems to have become a luminous body floating in the air.

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Emperor's Time Sculpture

Emperor's Time

This sculpture of the Emperor's Time Machine which is also his time machine was conceived and represent the Emperor’s love of travel. The car was built by using many sculptural techniques including materials such as stainless steel, LED light and poly-chrome. The effect of these materials give the concept of the sculpture pure fantasy. This sculpture is one of the main artistic expressions of Xi’an W hotel. The research into this project gives the sculpture the feeling of a well conceived artistic expression of the Tang Dynasty.

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Sky Reaching Sculpture

Sky Reaching

They developed this concept of the Sky Reaching Pole by researching the acrobats of the Tang Dynasty. Dignitaries from around the world were entertained by the acrobats of the court. The creative team researched and built many motifs of the acrobats before the final design was executed. The sculpture is over four meters high giving the feeling of suspense. The poles and the figures are abstract in nature but contemporary with metallic color. These acrobats were the main attraction during the inaugural celebration of the Tang as the sculpture is for the entrance of it.

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The Mystery of Golden Sculpture

The Mystery of Golden

The mystery of golden peach is a representative contemporary art sculpture of this W. Samarkand contributed golden peach to the Tang Dynasty as a symbol of external culture.The Tang maid holds the golden peach in their hands, the sense of size gradual progressive of form, guiding people to change the perspective, looking for the unique form of fun of the Tang Dynasty etiquette and exploring the mystery of the infinite loop of the golden peach.

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Solaris Asemic Calligraphy

Solaris

Solaris is a triptych of asemic calligraphy works made as wall art. The three pieces are titled The Sun, The Ocean and The Library, and they share one visual style. Each piece measures 700 by 700 by 20 millimeters and is written by hand with colored pens and golden and silver markers on colored paper. The written forms carry no fixed meaning, so every viewer can form a personal reading. The circular composition required careful control to keep the letters even in size along each line. Solaris is presented without a frame.

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Crazy Head Digital Art

Crazy Head

Every human being have their own characters like different ego, thinking and basic nature. The artist Jinho Kang stated that this Crazy Head came from it. So the car represents human's ego. Man is watching the car and wants to get rid of it but he can't. They seemed stick together forever. Man's eye is exaggerated like cartoon style. Even though the topic is heavy everything that he had done on this work looks more fun and casual.

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Golden City

Golden

Golden City is a mixed media art installation made from discarded computer parts. The work measures 30 by 30 inches and combines abstract acrylic paint on canvas with electronic waste, metallic coatings, lighting and an Arduino controller. Damaged components were collected from waste piles and placed in a new context rather than repaired. The golden surfaces give the parts a second life and turn them into objects of attention. The intent is to raise awareness of electronic waste and to question how value is given to things.

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Crystals Art Installation

Crystals

This series of work involves generating complex fractal images based on detailed analysis of crystals’ chemical structure. By collecting data such as the distance between each element, angle of the chemical bonding and molecular mass of the crystalline structure, Yingri Guan transforms and abstracts the data into fractals through constructing a series of equations and formulas.

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Archangel Michael Quilling

Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael is a Framed Quilling piece that Niamh created. Her inspiration for creating this Quilling piece of Archangel Michael came from her mother. When her grandmother was very ill, Niamh's mother was in their car and the badge for Archangel Michael fell from the mirror into her pocket as her grandmother passed away and this gave them all comfort knowing that she was being protected. The aim is to create an initial impact as the viewer observes the piece, from this it draws the viewers eye closer to see the details involved.

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Square or Circle Chair

Square or Circle

The main purposes of Xin Chen's design are communicating the different cultures and offering a new experiencing to appreciate the furniture. He has created a new way of constructing furniture that is joining all individual parts and holding them together through rope by tension without gluing and screwing. He has also created a new form of furniture representation that is disassembling the furniture into individual pieces, then rearranging and transforming into a new cultural image representation. The design can be satisfied with both functional and aesthetic for people simultaneously.

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