Echoes Kiʻi Kālai by Kuo-Hsiang Kuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Hana Noʻeau a me Hoʻokomo Hana Noʻeau Competition Category.

KeleaweHana Noʻeau· 2019

Echoes Kiʻi Kālai

by Kuo-Hsiang Kuo

Client: Good Style Creative Co., Ltd

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Hana Noʻeau Category

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The Design

About Echoes Kiʻi Kālai

E kūkulu ana ʻo Echo ma luna o ke kiʻi o nā ʻāleʻale e hoʻonui ana, me ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka mana hoʻāka kiʻekiʻe o ke kila paʻa ʻole wā i hānahinahina ʻia e hopu i nā mālamalama loli a me nā waihoʻoluʻu o kona kāhāwai. Ke ʻapo mai nei ka mālamalama mālaʻāina i ka kiʻi kālai, hoʻike mai ʻo ia i nā hoʻāka e loli mau ana—e nalu aʻe ana i waho e like me nā ale o ka leo a me ka hoʻomanaʻo. ʻO ke ʻano, e hoʻomanaʻo ana i kekahi kulu wai i paʻa ma ka manawa, e komo pū ana i ka mālie a me ka neʻe ʻana—he manawa i hoʻoiliili ai ka ikaika, a laila e hoʻālike hou ana i waho. Ma o ka hui pū ʻana o ka mālamalama a me ke aka, hoʻike ka hana i ke kupaʻa o ke ola a me ka kuʻēkuʻē o ka ʻuhane.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Echoes Kiʻi Kālai i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Echoes Kiʻi Kālai he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Echoes Kiʻi Kālai i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: I get my inspirations from life and nature. I also like to express my viewpoint through simple stuff.
I like to explore the potential of materials and techniques.A lot of ordinary materials, actually have a soul to me. I will transform them into a valuable new life through my magical hands and creative ideas. I hope my works carry the message of treasuring all earth resources and carry the concept of sustainable growth.
Dimensions & Packaging: Size : H250* W270 * D150 cm
Tags: (Art, public art, sculpture, stainless steel)
Production Technology: Material : Stainless Steel + Class
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge is to express a concept from a spiritual level via an abstract approach. It’s critical to choose the right materials to clearly express the inner feelings as materials speak different languages when it comes to art creation. In so doing, the audience can relate to the creation.

Another challenge is to combine stainless steel and glass. After a number of trial and error due to their nature in production, I finally found a way to piece them together in a natural way.
Research: I chose to use mirrored stainless steel and glass to interpret the image of water.
Because these two materials can be as clear and bright as water in the sun and the environment.
The water drops and rebounds in a moment of high and low undulations, symbolizing the vision of people working hard to build a beautiful world in different positions.
Inspiration: Based on the concept of “water”,
Water drops falling on water surface, create concentric circles of ripples, spreading gently outwards. The recoil from the vitality of this flowing force breaks the limits of space, just as when an actor unites his intellectual vitality with physical energy; gentle on some occasions violent on others; water displays scene after breathtaking scene, riveting to behold, and continuously re-enacted throughout the world。
Project Duration: This work was created in 2014 in Taiwan and finished in October 2015. It was exhibited in The 26th UBE Biennale at the UBE tokiwa Museum in Japan。
Operation Flow: The biggest challenge is to express a concept from a spiritual level via an abstract approach. It’s critical to choose the right materials to clearly express the inner feelings as materials speak different languages when it comes to art creation. In so doing, the audience can relate to the creation.