Installations
For installations, I usually document them throughout the process - from
sketches to the final artwork - because with installation and
sculpture, to me processing is the most important part. When making any digital works or
even drawings/paintings, they are easier to change, even when you're more
than half way finished. I could always delete, erase, or put a different layer of
paint on top of the parts that I wasn't satisfied with.
Not so with installation or sculpture. To cut up wood is to cut up wood, to
tear fabric is to tear fabric, and there's hardly any way for you to go back for a redo unless you start from the beginning. With these projects, somehow you gotta let
the work take part of you and lead you to how it wants to turn out to be. And
to me, that is the most exciting part, because there's no thrill like the
thrill of being in the Sculpture workshop until 1 in the morning, being
creative, getting your hands filthy, and seeing how your works turn out.
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Map of the inside
(Balsa wood, tool board, wire, late niters combined with some strong ernergy drinks and most importantly constructed with lots of love and occasional fits of frustration.)
To work with wood is a huge challenge for me. I could have picked other
mediums where I don't have to use drills, saws (from hand saws to electric
circular saws and bandsaws), or sanders (from drum sanders to belt sanders.) The
reason is that these monstrous tools terrify me. My worst fear? Chopping my
thumb off. I know, I've been lucky so far. However, now that I have faced this challenge,
I can proudly say that I feel like an amateur carpenter. I know about all
type of wood, and I am knowledgeable enough to use all types of tools without cutting
off anything else :-)
Map of the inside is a fun project. This is my inside, with the sun always
shining, with flowers, with my fish FiFi, with my country - Vietnam, with my heart, broken but then
pieced back together, and with words from my friends describing who I am to
them.
  
  
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Bee Leg
(Woods)
I wanted to polish my skills with wood, so this time I made these movable
joints without using any nails or hardware of any kind. I used 2x4 wood, a
wooden broom stick, and ...chopsticks to create it.
  
  
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Cloud
(Office Folders) A paper system that I created to attach 3Dpaper together in any shape I wanted
without using any glue or tape
 
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Corner
(Foam Boards)
A fun way to play with corners, spaces, and negative spaces
  
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