The objectives of this project were:
-To use botanical motifs as a source of inspiration to develop lighting concepts.
-To interpret and abstract botanical material into motifs and patterns by referencing the traditional and contemporary ways in which botanical material has been translated by artists and designers.
-To explore the shapes and textures of different natural foliage while simultaneously learning about the
local cultural symbolisms associated with a particular plant, leaf or flower.
-To engage in a series of small workshops that will include playing with natural materials, geometry, organic patterns, technical drawing and kinetics.
-To interpret emerging ideas as lighting concepts and solutions, using materials that will include glass and wire.
-To use botanical motifs as a source of inspiration to develop lighting concepts.
-To interpret and abstract botanical material into motifs and patterns by referencing the traditional and contemporary ways in which botanical material has been translated by artists and designers.
-To explore the shapes and textures of different natural foliage while simultaneously learning about the
local cultural symbolisms associated with a particular plant, leaf or flower.
-To engage in a series of small workshops that will include playing with natural materials, geometry, organic patterns, technical drawing and kinetics.
-To interpret emerging ideas as lighting concepts and solutions, using materials that will include glass and wire.
A Jackfruit tree. I chose the Jackfruit as my inspirational foliage because of its lovely sap green
colour and the texture of its skin which resulted from a cluster of innumerable carpels. What I also
observed was that the top view of a section of carpels, looked like a cluster of polygons.
Illustrated abstractions of the top view of a section of the Jackfruit skin
A closeup of the skin of the Jackfruit (inset)
Deconstructing the abstract illustration of the fruit, eliminating one line at a time
Tracing the jackfruit on a gateway sheet, hence bringing out its prominent features
Tracing the Jackfruit using pointillisim
We were asked to develop prototypes of our final outcome using different materials. I used green glass beads, interwove them in a wire structure, so as to obtain this slightly disfigured structure. As you can see, the structure encompasses many polygons, just like the skin of a Jackfruit.
A cluster of polygons on an acrylic sheet, laser cut
Polygons cut from an acrylic sheet and melted and sealed together
A welded metal prototype, using the polygon angle formations as fractals
This is the wire structure that was welded in the metal workshop. It has been designed and constructed
keeping in mind, the clusters of polygons in the close up view of the jackfruit skin.This structure goes in
the top corner of a room, where the two walls and the ceiling meet.
This is an execution of my initial idea of painting the acrylic panels using green coloured glass paint.
The reworked structure, with cellophane material stuck onto the acrylic sheet, this has coloured
the structure evenly. As seen below, green shadows are thrown on the wall, on its illumination.
