Day 31: Lockdown no.4
Today a 7 day snap lockdown is announced in Victoria. Here we go again with staying home and homeschooling for school kids. It is frustrating especially how slow the vaccine rolling out is in Australia but I can call for register vaccination as new rule for over 40. Even though this is not the first time of restriction but I never get used to this- still there are too many concerns and worries upon it.
Meanwhile I picked up my work from powdercoaters and the colour, green was perfect. I have made a couple of new things for my tube structures. However, I filled in one competition application today and here is the revised artist’s statement and description. Also new photo of this brooch has been taken.
“My Pink Balloons” Brooch. 2020. 48 (width) x 43 (length) x 34 (depth) mm
: Powdercoated perforated mildsteel, enamel painted silver and bleached silver, steel.
Pink is one of the most beautiful natural colours. We find pink in minerals, flowers, birds, moth, salt lake, sand on the beach, and even dolphins living in Amazon River. It is not just little girls’ colour. In 2019 I introduced this stunning colour into my work and since then I have encountered and developed good conceptual and structural design solutions.
For a long time I have been thinking of pink and couldn’t get rid of the intuitive images of pink balloons from my head. I tried to visualise how the pink balloons’ shape and the way they swarm together to bring the form and colours into my work. I needed to decide the numbers of balloons, the shape and the physical connection between them then the wearability of this object. Planting 3 pink balloons on a white drawing board with a distinctive red circle makes it look like directions on a map. It also shows the dissimilar geometry of three and two dimensional spheres at the same time on the same work.
Jin Ah Jo’s artist’s statement:
I create unexpected, reconstructed and deconstructed wearable forms that are designed to be intriguing and exciting to the wearers.
Inspired by deconstructive architecture practitioners such as Frank Gehry who question architecture in a philosophical context, I try to get my work to question existing well-known forms by changing them into completely dissimilar structures. I try to be intuitive when I am in the process of construction at the same time I plan to ensure accuracy and balance.
The main material I use is perforated or patterned metal sheet, cut precisely so the forms look random and unpredictable. I find manipulating perforated metal fascinating because even in a simple cube, sphere or cylinder there is much more depth to the shape. I refer to this as the visual language of the material where the overlapping circle, square or hexagon holes creates unanticipated patterns with depth and distance.
My goal is to make each piece as exciting as possible. To this end I use my intuition to mix intense colour with poetic structure. I want each piece to talk and express their own language without hesitation, so when viewers see and wear the works they can immediately respond. The wearability in my work is the visual connection between form and body, unexpected space and structure.
조 진아의 작가 진술서:
나는 예상되지 못하고 다시 구성되며 혹은 파괴되기도 하는 형태를 만들어 이를 착용하는 사람들에게 색다른 흥미를 주는 장신구를 만든다. 파괴건축의 선구자이며 기존의 건축 철학에 의문을 제시한 프랑크 게리처럼 나는 기존의 우리에게 아주 익숙한 형태에 의문을 제시하여 완전히 다른 구조로 만들어 보고자 하는데 촛점을 둔다. 만드는 과정에서는 직감적으로 형태를 만들면서도 동시에 정확성과 균형감을 분명히 가지고자 한다. 주로 사용하는 재료로서는 원형 혹은 다른 무늬로 구멍이 뚫어진 금속판을 써서 일시적 혹은 예측불가능한 형태를 만든다. 이런 천공된 무늬를 다루는 것은 아주 매혹적인 일인데 이유는 간단한 큐브, 구 혹은 실린더 모양에 훨씬 더 많은 깊이를 더해주기 때문이다. 나는 겹쳐진 원, 사각형, 육각형의 구멍이 기대하지 않은 깊이와 거리를 가진 무늬를 만든다는 시각적언어를 이 재료에 덛붙인다. 내 목표는 내가 만드는 작품 하나하나가 흥미진진한 구조를 갖도록 만드는 것이다. 이를 위하여 강렬한 색과 섞어서 시적인 구조를 만들기 위해 내 직관을 사용한다. 각각의 작품이 아무런 망설임 없이 그들의 언어를 표현하여 보고 착용하는 사람의 즉각적인 반응을 구할수 있도록 한다. 내 작업에서의 착용성은 형태와 몸, 예측하지 못하는 공간과 구조 사이의 시각적인 연결이기도 하다.
