Dream of Japan- Acrylic on 18 x 18 canvas
On Friday, we had an exciting tour of a an award winning interior designer’s office. He was working on an atlas painting for a restaurant he was designing. It was really amazing and it had never crossed my mind as an interior designer you will get to paint!!!!
This painting is inspired by just being able to paint and dreaming of trip to Japan next year…
Production for garment industry could be a creative job in ways you manipulate the situations or the garments you have to produce. However, in terms of actual creativity in which you are creating something or putting a combination of items that would last for more than one season, that is definitely not the case. I wanted to explore my option and tried out Interior design as a possibility.
My coworker once told me classes cannot solve all my problems which was true. The overview might be shallow for a complex subject but exposure to the subject is still helpful. I took Basic Space Planning in Spring; I had a professor who was very lax. I did not feel like my understanding of architecture went any deeper than the cover of Architectural Digest magazine nor did I feel my interest or confidence increased. The complexity of a building and space cannot be explained in one class- I was aware of it- however, I could hardly contain my disappointment.
We had a class project called Fashion Pop Up Store. Weeks after weeks we would research, filter our researches, think of placement, lighting, presentation, materials- the only thing we did not have to worry about was the finance part of it.
My concept is a Pop up store based on Marc Jacobs’ Resort 2013 collection. The designs are very bohemian, patterned, and researching the collection, it was based on Cindy Sherman’s clown series. When you think of clowns, circuses, immediately you conjure images of exaggeration, amusement, size scale and ultimately a show or fantasy. I thought of books and how the collection could ultimately be characters from various books. The main book I had based this concept on was “Sophie’s World” by Jostein Gaarder. It’s an introduction to philosophy written as a novel- spoiler- the characters found out they were characters in a book and tried to escape at the end of the story.
A pop up store in theory should be low budget and diminishable. Using the plan, my professor had provided, we basically filled in the space. Name of my conceptual Pop up store is called “Written by Marc” as though it is a collection of stories by a designer manifested in actual garments. Each piece tells a different story.
Exterior Elevation- Looking from inside out. My drafting is not that great and the lines are a bit heavy and thick. In drafting, the lightness/darkness and the thickness of the lines mean a lot.
Floor Plan is looking from above- was hoping potential customers who walked in would have a sense of being in books, with backgrounds of scenery.
Section Elevation is when you’re inside and you’re looking out the window (so you’re looking inside out of store, opposite of exterior elevation)
We had a visiting architect who asked if it had to be books after I had given the presentation. Being tired, rushing last minute, I was offended. It was my whole idea; why didn’t he understand? It wasn’t until afterwards I realized what he had meant. I finished the project at the preliminary stage because I had not expanded it enough- this could have been a poster board since the idea was flat and without much depth.
I am debating whether I should continue with another class. There was a lot of work involved and I had worked hard- but it still had a long way to go. It doesn’t come naturally to me and I probably have to work much harder since I do not have a knack for it.
At the same time, I am reminded of 2 different things:
1) Someone had once said, dancing is love that comes naturally but the ability to dance well does not come naturally.
– This is how I feel. I like interior design and I find it fascinating, how a space can affect us psychologically and physically at the same time- altering our behaviors and moods however I am not good at it. I am not meticulous nor am I patient, so drafting is very very difficult with my personality.
2) Jasmine from Woody Allen’s new Movie called Blue Jasmine had said she wanted to become an interior designer because she and her sister thought she was good at it.
– Did I pick interior design out of convenience and as a way out of my current job?
At the end of the day, I guess it’s just depends on what I want to do. As my friend loves to say, “We will see.”
(disclaimer: photos of all resort 2013 & other photos found online are reprinted solely for art project-)
nanansa 