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Date Created: 2022
Dimensions: 60'' x 70''
Medium: Dyed Ice (batik dye), cotton, metal chain, baby breath's cluster, PVC feather
Transitions are fleeting moments people go through in life all the time; an irreversible effect.
For the most part – it is usually for our betterment, although it is draining at times.
'Transitions' conveys my message about how I believe that the transitions I go through are to strengthen my mental capability/health; and how I was a better person than the previous day.
'Transitions' is portrayed through the metamorphosis of ice from solid to liquid. The video documentation of the time-lapse of the melting ice demonstrates how transitional periods are temporary. As the (dyed) ice melts, the pigments leave their marks on the canvas; representing an irreversible change and a permanent
result. Each ice block has a few layers - representing aspects of people.
Video Timelapse>>>
Process
Books that I read
Artist reference #1: Dawn Ng (Into Air)
In layman terms - her work features large sculptural blocks of frozen pigment. She wanted to reflects both the arresting presence and passage of cyclical time through its metamorphosis from solid, liquid to air,. Her work is broken down into 3 parts: a series of photographs (featuring each stage of the melting), ‘Clocks’; a series of films (documenting the disintegration from solid to liquid), ‘Time Lost Falling in Love’; and a series of residue paintings, ‘Ash’.
Artist reference #2: Maison Margiela Spring 2006 Ready-to-Wear
Although this was a fashion show - her concept is similar in terms of the physicality where the melting ice melts her white clothes; which for me would be a white canvas. In her case though, she had an idea about “dissolving” the structure of clothing. The water, artificially and temporarily frozen, therefore speaks to the artifice and temporality of fashion. Both the ice and the clothes are visually altered as time unfolds before the audience, and as they shifted their slick bodies and shook their tousled hair, they radiated enough sexual heat to reduce any man to a pool of water at their feet
Artist reference #3 : Nele Azevedo - The Minimum Monument (Melting Men)
In 2009, Brazilian Artist Nele Azevedo created a public art installation that involved 1000 ice sculptures of men and women figures. It was created to address the larger issues of global warming, climate change and species depletion. The sculptures are placed in the outdoor space throughout the day and slowly melt until they disappear. While I did not drew direct inspiration from this artwork - it made me have the idea of having several layers in one block; I could have a human figurine frozen in each block to represent how transitions have an effect on us.
Concept Sketches and Ideas
Shape Experimentation with ice
Experimentation: Acrylic dyed ice on toned canvas
Experimentation: Acrylic dyed ice on mahjong paper
Experimentation: Acrylic dyed ice on watercolour paper
Shape Experimentation with ice
Final Blocks of ice (separate layers)
