ATELIER YEA-YEA

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• FROM THIS TO THESE
• Introduction
• The distortion begins
• Picnic set: Catalog view
• Picnic set: Installation
• Epilogue plus extras

• CLASS IN THE RIVER
• Introduction
• Inspired by the Dutch locals
• Design and structure
• Atelier de Dommel

• SMALL PROJECTS
• Crochet around a tree

• STUDY
• Form / Skin / Narrative
• Interview with Pak

• Built with Indexhibit

FROM THIS TO THESE - Progressive Copying / 2011

The ambition of this project is to reinterpret form, in order to free oneself from the stigma surrounding the concept of copying, stimulate a more imaginative approach to imitation.

I look at the picture of this drum for very long time, gradually I feel like it starts to distort.



The drum body is originated from Japan, ca. AD 750 during the Nara period. As an artefact I find it very rich and mysterious in its own context, the fact that so little is known about the time period in which it was made gave me a lot of room to explore.

I start to question why this object came to its particular form and explore its mystical details, in terms of its materials, form, colour, pattern; as well as its production technique, users, its surrounding landscape/objects, time period.





I deconstructed it into various typologies grouped together according to shared traits that suggest possible new forms and functions. Then I drew analogies to those traits in a series of images and objects (found as well as self-made). These illustrate the new, imagined realities of the original object.
In this way, the resulting collection of separate items forms a coherent whole, brought together by an underlying fictional context.

Below shows image extract from book titled, «FROM THIS TO THESE- Progressive Copying»