A pop-up display of my current work “Stalagmite” will take place on the 13th of May, in studio 729, LCF.
(*This is UAL student/staff exclusive.)
Stalagmite is a personal project of mine, exploring the importance of the allowance for time and events to develop and accumulate in this era of short-span attention/patience and dopamine inflation.
As a response to my current MA course unit title “the everyday and the epic”, I interpret the relation between the everyday and the epic as below:
The Epics are accumulations of the Everyday. They are accumulations enough to provoke the thresholds of “everydayness”, developed in hindsight, to transcend the “epicness” into oneself and/or its observer.
Inspired by the formation process of stalagmites. The body of work resonates with the idea that time and event deposits and precipitates, eventually turning the everyday into the epic.
This is also an attempt to depict how the surroundings and the “epic” that flabbergasts us, this includes making oneself in awe, docile, disoriented, etc., in or by the epic, causing confusion, a sense of powerlessness, and potentially developing mistrust of the epic.
Caged
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Examining the fascination and demonisation of women perceived as “other.” Sculptural, architectural forms meet fluid fabric to hold the tension between attraction and fear, challenging stereotypes that confine women to myth or menace, and shifting them towards empowerment.
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Creative Director: @millie.aoki
Costume Design: @ruby_radley.x@rubyradley.design
Model: @ruby_radley.x
Photographer: @chenlinopt
Hair & MUA: @annahockingmua
Olympia
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Exploring the uncanny through the repeated construction and deconstruction of the female form, where movement, texture, and gesture reflect cycles of systemic abuse and objectification.
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Creative Director: @millie.aoki
Costume Design: @ruby_radley.x@rubyradley.design
Model: @ruby_radley.x
Photographer: @chenlinopt
Hair & MUA: @annahockingmua
