"conventional" art or design work

a.my best piece of creative work

Through the materials and processes of sculptural fabrication, photography, digital manipulation, and painting, I can develop a conceptual and practical strategy through which I can interpret secondary source images. In this sense, ‘Secondary Source Painting’ involves several modes and degrees of separation and interpretation between the ‘original’ source material and the final painting. To recycle, deconstruct, reconstruct, and re-contextualize pre-existing cultural forms, and to originate an artwork that is expressively ‘new’ with content and meaning, I can consider the aesthetic and creative nexus between ideas, form, subject, materials, and techniques.

b: an image of a great piece of architecture

Zaha Hadid’s design for the Signature Towers confirms the role of Business Bay Development at the very forefront of Dubai’s rapidly changing future. The three towers rise above the creek and project themselves as an icon for the surrounding developments and for the gulf region. The tower’s striking design creates a new presence that punctures the skyline with a powerful recognizable silhouette. The fluid character of the towers is generated through an intrinsically dynamic composition of volumes. The towers are inter-twined to share programmatic elements and rotate to maximize the views from the site towards the creek and neighbouring developments. The design quality of the towers to act as a symbol and icon extends beyond their scale and location. These qualities are derived from the boldness of the architectural concept, from the ‘choreographed’ movement that combines the three towers in one overall gesture and ‘weaves’ with a series of public spaces through the podium, the bridges and the landscape beyond.

c: an original photograph of something beautiful

Wangjing SOHO responds to the flows of the city and allows natural daylight into each building from all directions. The juxtaposition of the tower’s fluid forms continuously changes when viewed from different directions; appearing as individual buildings in some views, or as a connected ensemble in others.The orientation and composition of the towers has been defined to direct visitors and staff to the various transport links that surround the site . The cohesive design of the project creates an anchor and identity for the growing Wangjing community.