Week 10 Play + Nature

By Xianyao Li (Lee)

Xianyao Li - s3875720

This week's theme is play and nature. And for me, another theme is still understanding my room, so I start to think about the connection between my room and nature. I imaged my room as a natural environment, and use it to grow a new natural environment.

I took photos of my room again, but this time is I focus on the light and shadow areas. Because I was trying to distinguish and separate space based on whether it is natural or not. The space that was illuminated by light is 'nature space' because, in order to grow plants light is the necessary requirement, on the other hand, shadow spaces are 'unnature space'. Then I built a model in the modeling software, cut off those shadow spaces, and abstract it into a rock-like space, it works as a flowerpot. Then I used the software to let the 'plant' automatically grow based on the structure and shape of this flowerpot. 

The outcome is a new landscape if my room is a 'flowerpot'. I am satisfied with the result if I can buy some material the next step can be, I can try to make this landscape by using concrete, stone, and so on.

Again, I like this week's theme, because this is the direction that I did not think about before, to analyze my room based on the word 'nature, and turn my room into a natural environment. I think this could be a methodology that I can accumulate, it has the potential that can be generically applied to similar situations.