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Crowd Gathering of Dots Installation Art

Crowd Gathering of Dots

Crowd Gathering of Dots is an art installation created for the lobby of a hotel in Tainan, Taiwan. The work covers a surface of 100 square meters. Handmade ceramic spheres are arranged across the wall to suggest the flow and spatial tension of a gathering crowd. Each sphere is finished with a glossy black glaze that reflects the appearance of every visitor. Because the spheres are shaped by hand, each one differs slightly. Bronze and gold feet hold the spheres in place, and light projection creates changing three dimensional shadows.

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Guo Fan Art Installation and Jewelry

Guo Fan

Guo Fan is an art installation combined with art jewelry, based on the culture of overseas Chinese remittance. The work studies the history of Chaozhou people who traveled to Southeast Asia to make a living. A two-way linked spindle structure turns continuously, so the historical scenes overlap without end. The jewelry pieces follow the idea of slices of history, and each piece gives the wearer a different role within the same story. Brass, stainless steel, aluminium, resin and acrylic are used, shaped by laser cutting and 3D printing.

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CityWood Artwork

CityWood

CityWood is a wooden map artwork that presents a city as a three dimensional object. City streets, water and landscape are represented by separate wooden layers, and the layers create depth. Each layer of fine quality plywood is cut with laser technology, polished for a smooth surface and assembled by hand. The layers are set in a wooden frame that measures 450 mm in width, 450 mm in height and 30 mm in depth. The artwork can hang on a wall or stand on a desk. The natural grain of the wood makes each map different.

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Noiseless Flower Vase

Noiseless

Noiseless is a hand-thrown porcelain flower vase designed for long or large plants. The form is shaped with a minimum of lines to balance light and shade. The surface is bare porcelain with a soft, smooth texture, and a transparent glaze is applied only inside. Sizes range from 60 by 60 by 110 millimetres to 100 by 100 by 240 millimetres. Each piece is heavy, so long-stemmed flowers remain stable. Placed together, the vases stand like columns and create a quiet monochrome group that can be arranged freely.

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Pulse Art Installation

Pulse

Pulse is a lighting installation created for the 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival in the national Weiwuying park in Kaohsiung. The installation expresses the emotional states of new immigrants through light and sound. The structure is made of steel tubes, with fiber mesh fixed on each tube between a top ring and a waved base. LED light strips are digitally controlled to follow background music composed for the work. The pavilion is illuminated at sunset, and a three minute light show is presented every thirty minutes. Pulse measures 7 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 5.8 meters high.

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Kintsugi Ferrari Red Conversation Piece

Kintsugi Ferrari Red

Kintsugi Ferrari Red piece from Egg Vessels Collection is a unique, one of the kind piece primarily inspired by the expressive brushstrokes of abstract expressionism and the history of the automobile. After an accident, the piece has matured and received another meaning by being fully restored by using Kintsugi where the cracked pieces were put back together and filled with gold. This unique process gave the art piece complex fresh beauty and simplicity. It gained the maturity of something once broken, yet alive again.

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Interpreting Discomfort Oil Paint

Interpreting Discomfort

Interpreting Discomfort is a series of oil paintings about personal space and social pressure. The works show hands and eyes in staged scenes that recreate everyday moments of unease. Caring actions can bring people closer, yet too much attention can also cause discomfort. The paintings combine two techniques. Indirect painting builds a black and white base that is then glazed with color. Direct painting applies mixed color straight onto the surface. The series is made with oil paint on canvas and wood panel, and it is shown in galleries as a starting point for conversation.

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Frail World Table

Frail World

The Frail World table on wide stable legs from the side looks unshakable, like the universe itself. However, when viewed from above, its thin lines, enclosed in a circle of tabletops, form the symbol Pacific on the fragile glass. Life and peace on Earth look just as fragile from space. When a fragile peace is destroyed by war, it is very difficult to sit down at the negotiating table. But that is the only possible salvation.

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Tear and Discover Furniture

Tear and Discover

Tear and Discover is an art installation made of four household products: a speaker, a floor lamp, a clock and a fan. Each object is fully wrapped in leather, so the sound, the light, the time and the air flow are hidden. To use a function, the visitor must cut the leather cover. The leather and its labels stand for the symbolic value of goods, while the parts inside provide the use value. All covers are shaped by hand from 1.5 mm vegetable-tanned leather and held by stainless steel supports. The work questions the relation between sign and function in consumption.

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Boat Functional Sculpture

Boat

Boat is an interactive toy that responds to changes in the surrounding environment. A highly sensitive vibration sensor starts the movement, so the toy can be activated by sound or gesture instead of a mechanical switch. The main drive shaft carries a concave directional track, and the parts inside the groove shift by gravity and push the toy forward. The motion follows the crawling pattern of arthropods, whose spine is echoed by the main axis. All modeling, transmission parts and hardware are made by 3D printing, so complex structures are formed without assembly.

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Leaf Tall Vase

Leaf Tall

Nature materializes strongly in the Leaf Tall vase created by French designer Pierre Foulonneau. The vase associate crystal and metal in a poetic design where a golden leaf sits in a transparent pedestal. The results is a vase bearing an unalterable natural presence, even when empty. And, during flower season, the metal part acts as a receptacle for greeting and showcasing fresh flowers.

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Rims and Spokes Coffee Table

Rims and Spokes

Rims and Spokes, as the name speaks for itself, a Coffee cum showcase table made from rims and spokes of a bicycle topped off with chamfered glass pane makes for an excellent focal piece. The design is innovative yet simple, elegant yet functional. It fits all types of interior settings due to its chrome-transparent color scheme. The height of the table is deliberately etched to suit a relaxed floor seating setup. Overall the ingenuity and creativity of the product is unique and may just be the perfect center piece for any space of just about any customer.

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