Yves Klein -- Fire Painting on Board

Now I am doing some works with burning cigarettes. It can be said it is about fire. Silke suggest me to look at Yves Klein's works. He used fire to paint, which is very special and interesting. I love his works -- Fire Painting on Board. Actually I want to see the really work. There must be many details on this work. And I found some images of his works on the Internet. They are very beautiful. He controlled the fire to paint on the board. However, there may be something by accidents. Whatever he controlled and the accidents, they are both amazing. I also want to use burning cigarettes to 'paint'. It must be interesting. But I need to do some experiments first.

'Lost' -- Kathy Prendergast

This work was made by Kathy Prendergast. She expunged all places names of North America’s map except names which had the word ‘lost’. It is an emotional work. Maybe you will feel lost when you are looking at this work. Its form and its idea are combined very well. It makes me think about my work—the book I made. What feelings of audience will be when they are looking at my book?

Reference: http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_group.php?mainId=98&media=Prints&_p=1

The Nature creates it. We make it become a work.

This is Stonehenge. It exists many years ago. Nobody knows who move these huge stones here and how they do this. When people found them, they thought they were beautiful. Then people protect these stones like the photo as below:

These stones are here. The Nature continue to creat them. Maybe one day they will disappear because of erosion by wind and rain. It is a piece of work. People in the world should know this work which created by the Nature. We appreciate it and admire the creativity of Nature.

I heard of many designers would like to watch programmes of National Geographic. They love to enjoy the nature. Actually I think we are living in this world, we should keep a harmonious relationship with the nature. And many things the nature creats for us are perfect, we should learn and understand the nature, then use what we know from the nature to make more good works.

Function Changed

WINDSOR CASTLE

Many visitors went there to watch this castle!

Windsor Castle was designed for the Royal Families to live, but now it is also a tourist attraction.

In fact, many buildings today have this ‘function’, such as Swiss Re Tower. Design can make the work has its original function. Attracting people’s eyes, design also can make the work become a piece of art for watching.

Roman Baths in Bath is the same as Windsor Castle.



Use My Camera!

I love to use camera to record my life and do some works. Maybe at the beginning, I just like a normal person to use camera to remember something interesting in my life, but when I deal with these photos, sometimes I found that I became a designer at some moments and these photos could be made as a work.

In this holiday, I traveled to some places and used my camera to record my trips. I visited Windsor Castle, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge and some countries in Europe. I can understand more about Western Culture through these trips. I will show some pictures and write down what I think……