River To Ocean 착용 가능한 조각 by Yiyao Nie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 은상 in 순수 예술 및 예술 설치 디자인 Competition Category.
은순수 예술· 2021
River To Ocean 착용 가능한 조각
by Yiyao Nie
Client: Yiyao Nie
A' Design Award 은상 Winner in 순수 예술 Category
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About River To Ocean 착용 가능한 조각
'River to Ocean(강에서 바다로)'은 신체에 착용하거나 갤러리에 전시할 수 있는 착용형 조각 컬렉션이다. 이 컬렉션은 모자와 베스트로 구성되며, 텍스타일 의상 및 신발 장식과 함께 선보인다. 각 작품은 시간 속에 얼어붙은 듯 튀어 오르는 액체를 형상화하여, 꽃잎 위의 물방울이나 바위에 부딪히는 강물을 연상시킨다. 형태는 3D 소프트웨어로 설계한 뒤 작은 부품 단위로 레진 프린팅하고, 이를 수작업으로 채색하고 조립한다. 큰 실루엣임에도 무게는 가볍게 유지된다. 베스트의 가지 형태 요소들은 분리하여 새로운 형태로 재구성할 수 있다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 은상
River To Ocean 착용 가능한 조각, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 은상 수상작으로, 최상급이며 아름답고 인상적인 디자인에 수여되는 비범하게 권위 있는 인정입니다. 은상 수상작은 대단히 뛰어나고 매우 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 탁월한 전문 지식, 재능, 통찰력을 보여 줍니다. River To Ocean 착용 가능한 조각, 이 작품은 훌륭한 대표작으로서 매우 전문적이고 깊이 있게 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 은상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 경계를 넓히는 데 이바지하는 주목할 만하고 찬사를 받는 발명품입니다. River To Ocean 착용 가능한 조각, 이 작품은 모두가 부러워하는 창작물로서 욕망을 일깨우고 긍정적인 감정을 불러오며 경탄과 경이로움을 불러일으킵니다.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Nie teamed up with fashion designer Qiongxin Kou to create the collection River to Ocean which debuted at London Fashion Week 2020. River to Ocean combines Kou’s textile work with Nie's 3D printed sculptures that resemble splashing liquid frozen in time. The models were Nie's 3D design and sculptures as hats, vests, and decorations on their shoes.
The wearable sculptures mimic different forms in moments of how water drops on flowers or collide with rocks. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Hat: Width 300mm x Depth 300mm x Height 400mm
Vest: Width 600mm x Depth 600mm x Height 800mm - Tags
- Sculpture, functional sculpture, wearable sculpture, art, craftworks
- Production Technology
- The hat and the vest are created and designed in 3D software first, then 3d printed into small parts using raisin material, and finally painted, assembled and crated by hand as a wearable sculpture.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge here is to transform the sculpture into a wearable and comfortable hat and vest. The piece is designed to be able to break down into small pieces and easily and freely assemble back into different forms, giving the vest a more dynamic look, also easy to carry out and recycle.
- Research
- These wearable sculptures explore the way to make sculpture into wearable art frozen in time, material friendly, and non-unidirectional value under the balance between the ecosystem and the human body. It carries out experiments on its development potentials and various techniques of 3d manufacturing process based on the resin materials. The combination of fashion and sculpture remade the piece as mixed media for artworks, giving people strength and contemplation while wearing or looking at it.
In fact, to accept self or see who we really are is the most challenging thing in life, many people use their whole lives to compromise with themselves, to heal the pain they got from childhood hard memories or frustrating time that had destroyed their confidences. To know, to see and to accept oneself could create beautiful moments in life, this principle will release so much pain and build so much courage and brightness, and this goal forms the essential thought for this collection.
The inspiration of the hat comes from the water drops on the flower, splashes, and frozen in the air, this is the birth of life. For the vest, it’s the moment the river flowing into the ocean, colliding with the rocks, breaking apart, frozen in time, this is the struggle of life.
To use sculpture to memorize these important moments in life and then wear it in the body is a healing journey and also a form of newborn. - Inspiration
- “River To Ocean”, seeing who you are while flowing your way. This concept is a metaphor to illustrate the moment in life that one who finally finds a true self throughout his/her past experiences. As a Chinese proverb has said, “The small me meets the big me” which means that one will bravely face up to and accept true selves throughout what he or she has experienced.
- Project Duration
- “River To Ocean” is made for and showcased in London Fashion Week 2020 F/W. It started in December 2019 and ends in February 2020. The whole making process had been done in New York and California.
- Operation Flow
- The wearable sculptures are designed to be worn or displayed in a gallery. They are in big silhouettes but fairly light weight. With putting on the 3D printing piece, you can flexibly move but need to pay attention to things around you due to its volume structure. The multiple branches of the vest are designed in a way to be easily broken down and restructured into new forms.
- Patents
- Yiyao Nie
- Team Members
- Yiyao Nie: 3D/sculpture artist and technologist
Qiongxin Kou: Fashion/Textile designer - Image Credits
- Yiyao Nie
Qiongxin Kou
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