Materials

Construction

Version1 Rigidity and Verticality

Everything was placed in a vertical and symmetrical way. Not many connections between each object. The balance in this piece is more visual than physical by which I mean image-wise it looks balanced to me but physically the rolls are just standing, not with a designed balance but a natural and original balance. However, some details are designed to achieve physical balance. The triangles on the rolls stand because of the balance between the shapes; the stick in the roll is supported by the restrictions from the roll.

The emotion and texture I can feel from the installation are serious, rigid, and ordered.  

Version2 Arc and Horizontality

This piece requires a lot of balance between the objects physically. 

• All the Found Materials are somewhat round and hard to stay still, thus even though this piece is supposed to be entirely horizontal, there's one roll standing because it was essential to the balance, concluded from many times of experiments.

• The main long stick in this piece is no longer supporting the balance but putting pressure on the arc and testing the balance. It also makes the cardboard essential by preventing the stick from sliding down.

• The slots left on the plywood board makes it easier to bend and leave some interesting shadows underneath.

The emotion and texture I feel from this piece is still ordered but more intersected. Even though the balance is pretty fragile, I still feel peace from it.

Version3 Distraction and Connection

In this piece, things are meant to be out of order and show some organic sense. Somehow the balance is even more tricky when they are not ordered. Every object is connected and their own balance affects each other. The connections are also not very easy to find when the materials "don't speak the same language". But no matter what there's always some similarity and potential connectable parts between any two things in the world.

The emotion and texture I feel from this piece, sadly, aren't fully organic and flowing but a bit distracting..