Project 1: #10
Portrait of men and women made by parts of motorcycle.
Portrait of a kingdom made by eggs.
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" made by cups that filled with milk, cocoa and coffee.
Early of this year, a few videos that go viral had caught my eyes. I was fascinated by the video portraits (of the combination of things/materials) that meant so common or even little to me, can surprisingly bring out such a beautiful creations.
The artist without a paintbrush as she calls herself, Hong Yi a.k.a Red, is a Sabah-born (Malaysian Australian) artist-architect working in Shanghai.
She has caught the public eye with her unique large scale artwork, starting with the portrait of renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei using sunflower seeds, Singer Jay Chao using coffee cup stains, Chinese film director Zhang Yi Mou using 750 pairs of socks, bamboo sticks and pins, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Yao Ming, Adele and so many other by using multiple of the material which we can found in our daily life.
Portrait of Jay Chao using coffee cup stains.
Portrait of Mark Zuckerberg using novel books because she thought it could be ironic to create Facebook out of BOOKS.
The saddest part is she actually diced up (by cutting out the side of) the novel "Game of Thrones"!! (How dare she! LOL), which the thickest paperback book she could find, however she claimed she didn't cut too much of it so the novel is still readable. Phew! Game of thrones are safe! :D
Portrait of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei using sunflower seeds. Remarkable isn't she? :)
My favorite goes to the portrait of Adele. She was inspired by Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" (which also my fav) and decided to use burning candles to start the portrait.
Hong Yi (Red) : "To me, ADELE was probably singing about the pain of a lost relationship. Rain may be a metaphor for her tears she cried, and she is setting fire to it to burn and destroy her pain. I've used blue candles to represent tears, and by setting fire to them, they melt and flow into each other - "Watched it pour as I touched your face..." - and they form a portrait of ADELE."
All of the combination of materials she used can also be found at home.
Her projects inspire me to think of the big picture and not to be bounded by the size or time or material to make the intangible ideas in mind to become tangible.
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