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Film
Door Poem Project
Arts
Architecture of Sense
Medicine
SoundBODY
The Fujian tulou, 福建土楼; Door Poem, detail, built between the 12th and the 20th centuries.
photo: Edwina Chen
Documentary Film
The Door Poem Project is a planned film to document the family reunion of 13 villages in China to write a poem, to name the next 16 generations of children for the first time in 400 years.
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The Architecture of Sense is a project which takes one set of information and translates it into all the five human senses.
How? By reducing the senses to the fundamental principles, the isometric translation describes the mathematical process of moving a data set and transposing it to another frequency. Each step is backwards compatible and can revert to the original form without losing information.
The Music of Architecture turns a building into sound.
The Architecture of Music turns sound into a drawing.
The Colour of Music turns drawing into painting.
The Scent of Colour turns painting into scent.
The Taste of Scent turns perfume into a food menu.
The Touch of Taste turns food into our bodies.
The Space of Touch turns bodies into instruments.
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The exploration of material and medium in a contemporary conversation between art and craft by building the organic form from different materials, compare and contrast material qualities and process.
Steel A36, cold bend, oxyacetylene cut, MIG weld, salt patina
Stoneware cone 10 bentonite, ball clay, kaolin, feldspar, mica, quartz and some iron. Slab construction, finish, iron oxide mouth spray, slip paper transfer, and scored
cold bend steel, oxyacetylene, mig weld
iron oxide salt patina
1' x 1' x 2 1/2'
cone 10 stoneware, slab construction
iron oxide mouth spray
1' x 1' x 2 1/2'
cone 10 stoneware, slab construction
iron oxide slip transfer
1' x 1' x 2 1/2'
cone 10 stoneware, slab construction
iron oxide slip transfer
1' x 3' x 2 3/4'
Interaction of colour in different medium, oil, acrylic, gum arabic, tempera, distemper and ceramic glaze.
figure studies is a series on binary compliments, below; 3 of 18 exploring limited palettes
each composition study uses the same colours yellow PY74, blue PB29, in different proportions, and PW6 white
study Yellow Orange/BlueViolet
study YO/BV, 7:1 PY74/ PB29
oil on canvas, 18"x24" (45cm x 60cm)
Artomatic, Rosslyn, VA USA
study Yellow Orange/BlueViolet
study YO/BV, 1:1 PY74/ PB29
oil on canvas, 18"x24" (45cm x 60cm)
Artomatic, Rosslyn, VA USA
study Yellow Orange/BlueViolet
study YO/BV, 1:7 PY74/ PB29
oil on canvas, 18"x24" (45cm x 60cm)
Artomatic, Rosslyn, VA USA
music
music clips and photograph
performance art
Hillyer Art Space, The Way Water Moves, Piangero, la sorte mia, Handel, Edwina Chen singer in collaboration with Lorenzo Cardim, performance by Maida Withers
photo: Vernon George
Examining the cartography and chronology of architecture by classification through juxtaposition of images. Each building, monumental, sacred or vernacular, is paired with a compliment on the other side of the world from the same time period.
My practice as a photographer is to compose in the camera and print on fibre paper. There is no cropping, burning or dodging, so only perfect negatives are printed, the decisive moment. Each slide is a digital image of the photographic print or negative, the imperfections are preserved.
Two photos are juxtaposed organised by date, country and site
architectural types are monumental, sacred and vernacular
The Touch of Sound turns bodies into instruments of healing.
The Space of Touch investigates how sound waves interact with our body. How the physics of singing and the application of overtone singing can physically change cells by putting the body in tune. This is the junction of music and health.
