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House of Dream Public Art

House of Dream

House of Dream is a public art sculpture installed in Shenzhen, China. The sculpture is made of stainless steel, LED lighting and PC sheet with a one-way mirror, and it measures 320 centimeters wide, 120 centimeters deep and 400 centimeters high. During the day, the reflective surface mirrors the surrounding environment. At night, changing light forms an inward space. Visitors interact with the work and alter the lighting effects. The sculpture responds to the similar appearance of many new residential buildings and recalls memories of home.

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Earth Worker Installation Art

Earth Worker

Earth Worker is an outdoor art installation placed in a wetland in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The semi-representative human figure stands in the water like a giant that creates all living things. One side of the body looks down at the earth, while the other side looks up at the sky. Glass fiber reinforced cement is the main material, applied over a metal frame and a sculpted foam core. The brushed cement mortar surface is left plain, without added color or patches. The installation refers to local history and to the culture of the Macadao people.

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Different Maps Wall Art

Different Maps

The design is a 3D map, created with the use of laser-cut wood for the streets and the infrastructure, and epoxy resin for the water reservoirs. The map can show any place on Earth, to remind you of a special time or place in your life. It is made with the use of modern technology, and is meant to combine the ancient art of carpentry with the new possibilities of laser accuracy.

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Commemorative Hands Sculpture

Commemorative Hands

Commemorative Hands is a series of contemporary glass sculptures. Each work presents a different shape of the human hand. The series draws on themes such as love, migration, longing and separation, which leave lasting marks on human life. Most pieces are made of semi-transparent colorless cast glass, formed by kiln casting from wax models and hand molds at real size. Antique metal and wood parts are added to suit each story and memory. Some glass forms resemble paper letters, with writing added by carving. The sculptures are exhibited in galleries.

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Memories of Rose Space Decoration

Memories of Rose

This work is inspired by the love story behind the portrait "Marthe de Florian", a work by Giovanni Bellini. The rose-colored arrangement represents her as an actress who lived in Paris during the glamorous pre-war era. The rose represents love. The blue one, on the other hand, represents the strength of a woman wandering through the whirlpool of war, but never despairing and praying for the dawn. The two large curved flowers represent the path to be taken, and the dried blue plant is called the "traveler's tree" and symbolizes the changing times.

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Go Together Painting

Go Together

Her design is giving a message that they must overcome division and go together. Lara Kim designed to make two groups to face and connect them. A lot of hands and feet attached to life objects represents a variety of directions. The black color means fear when they are in conflict with each other, and the blue color means hope to move forward. The sky blue color on the bottom means water. All entities in this design are connected and go forward together. It was drawn on a canvas and painted with acrylic.

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Same But Different Tangible Smell

Same But Different

Same But Different is an art installation that turns smell into a physical form. The work is based on isomers, which are compounds with the same chemical formula but a different arrangement of atoms, and can therefore carry two different smells. Each sculpture holds two related smells and joins their molecular shapes in one form. The forms are 3D printed and coated with several layers of holographic paint applied by an industrial airbrush. Internal chambers with absorbent materials preserve the smells, which diffuse outward through thin conduits. Visitors can hold and smell each piece.

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Kintsukuroi Wallpaper

Kintsukuroi

Kintsukuroi is a digitally printed wallpaper for interior walls. The design shows a fine porcelain surface in blue and white that breaks open. Behind the break, a shining surface of precious metal sheets appears. The pattern recalls Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, a practice that treats breakage and repair as part of an object's history and as a sign of resilience. The wallpaper is printed on textured vinyl with metallic finishes in gold, bronze or silver. Each panel measures 650 by 270 centimetres and can be cut to fit a given room.

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Ice Core Art Installation

Ice Core

Ice Core Visualization is an art installation that shows the relationship between carbon dioxide levels and global climate. The installation is made of eight acrylic tubes filled with layered gel wax. Each tube is 8 inches in diameter and 3 feet long. Each wax layer represents average data for a thousand-year period, covering the last four hundred thousand years in total. A greyscale scheme shows the variation of carbon dioxide. A second scheme uses red for heat and blue for cold to show temperature variation.

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Castelli di Ceramica Multifunctional Pot

Castelli di Ceramica

Castelli di Ceramica is a modular ceramic pot that can also be used as a fruit bowl or container. The pot is made of four parts that stack together with stable and precise interlocking. When closed, the piece works as a decorative object for tables and sideboards, and it can also hold flowers. When the four parts are separated, each one serves as a bowl or a container. Every piece is decorated by hand in the traditional style of Castelli, an Italian village with a long history of ceramic craft. The pot is dishwasher safe.

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The Voice of Ceramic Resonant Speaker

The Voice of Ceramic

The Voice of Ceramic is a series of resonance speakers made of ceramic for mobile phones. The speakers amplify sound without any power supply, so no electricity is used. A mobile phone is placed vertically into a groove in the middle of the body. Sound from the phone outlet enters the resonance chamber and is amplified, with the bass strengthened. Music is released from two outlets on the left and right, creating a stereo effect. The loudness of the same music can be increased by 12 dB. Ceramic has a long history as a material for musical instruments in China.

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So-Jeok-Hwa Fine Art

So-Jeok-Hwa

So-Jeok-Hwa is the task expressing the shape of the leaf, like flower. This flower comforts and heals those who hurt with their hearts, and it is based on the experience experienced in the artist's life. It is a flower that expresses the leaves about as flowers and expresses the wind toward a society where values are respected. It is the act of recording a story or emotion, just like writing a note or writing a letter.

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