Ziyu Ren
Bridge 4: Memory as Pattern and Prediction - The 52 Entrance Tickets For The Met Museum
Class of: 2028
Major: Fashion Design BFA
Medium: Slideshow presentation
Faculty: Laura Nova and Sarah Custen
Prompt: Bridge project 4 synthesizes our art making and incorporates an academically-rigorous research practice to develop a set of cards that explore memory as pattern and prediction. These cards could be used to tell a story, play a game, or predict the future, and can be based off of each student’s individual style, cultural practices, and/or topics of interest. So in Studio, we are going to make a set of 52 cards while in Seminar, we will conduct research to support, inform, and inspire the deck of cards we are using. We will then create an Annotated Bibliography and present in class on your research. Additionally, we will use Seminar to unpack the visual with language. This could mean writing an interpretation of the visuals you have chosen for your cards, writing instructions for playing a game, or creating an accompanying guidebook for your deck of cards.
In Bridge 4, I decided to make 52 tickets for The Met. The inspiration for the theme comes from an experience of my trip to the Met Museum. Once I went to the Met, I found the entrance ticket was simple. For some of the visitors, it’s impossible to spend the whole day in the museum so I think giving visitors a kind of unforgettable memory after the visit is significant. So I wanted to design a series of entrance tickets for the Met in order to provide people with both information of relics in the museum and fond memories of the museum trip. When I did this project, I put myself in the situation of making a true project with The Met. I try to make my card become creative, meaningful, commercial and unique. I finally chose to draw the images of 12 collections and 40 relics of different collections on my tickets and I wrote a short introduction of each of them at the back of tickets. For collections, I wrote the background of the culture that they represent for and when they are established in The Met. For the images of relics, I wrote the contents, specific making skills or the history of them at the back of tickets instead of just writing the time, background and the creators of them since I wanted my tickets to be meaningful. You can see that both of the front and back of each ticket were designed well.