I wanted to produce something that was both inspired by and captured the wonder of an important memory: the day I got glasses and felt as though I saw the world for the first time. Specifically, the image of clearly seeing leaves on trees, the subsequent realization of how intricately beautiful the world is, and a surge of inspiration because of that. I was also inspired by Agnes Varda\u2019s autobiographical film \u201cThe Beaches of Agnes,” where she says that \u201cIf we opened people up, we\u2019d find landscapes.\u201d I agree, and believe that those landscapes are most often the landscapes of your childhood. This inspired me to incorporate nature into my Bridge 1 that reflected how sentimental I feel towards the landscapes both within and surrounding me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I decided to create flowers out of wax, done so by dipping my fingers first in cold water and then in hot wax before attaching them to a branch. After a few seconds, my fingers would part easily from the wax mold that remained, a shape very reminiscent of flower petals. Significant here is the fact that each flower petal is embedded with my own fingerprint, connecting the piece to my identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted to keep the base organic as a tie to nature as the flowers themselves are inorganic. I decided to gather my branches from Tompkins Square Park, as I spent a lot of time there while writing my application essays for Parsons and found a lot of inspiration from the elements within the park. To me, it signifies that this first project at Parsons is a kind of building block connecting where I have come from to what I will create, binding my organic inner landscape to my man-made inorganic work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19439,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-19438","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrative-studio-seminar-1","tag-memory"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n