emotion of breeze

emotion of patchwork

Sometimes I feel weather would have emotion too as we human have.

The heavy rain seems like the sky is deeply sad and crying. Under the strong sunshine, I imagine the sky is super happy, etc.

I did shooting of my work in a park today, and there was continually small wind during the term. The cloth was swinging and dancing in the breeze. It seemed the wind shows its emotion by the waver.

Self initiated project 3: patchwork of emotion

Project outcome 3:

Patchwork of emotion

(2009)

During in the process of silk screen printing on the bags, I found multicoloured layers are beautiful.

Then I printed many faces on cotton fabrics with different coulours, and they became like a crossover of emotion. I cut out the fabrics in the pieces 20cm x 20cm, mixed and sewed randomly.

This became the third outcome for the project, patchwork of emotion.

Relationship is not always straightforward. Sometimes we do argument or fighting, but these are not always bad and could be the result of mutual understanding and bring us to the next step of the good relationship. Cutting is representation of quarrel, and sewing is reconciliation in a way.

self initiated project 2: hello! bags (your belongings also do communication)

Project outcome 2:

Hello! Bags

(2009)

In this stage, I made cotton bags with face icon prints as my suggestion for the new way of communication.

The Hello! Bag helps to show your emotion to others by face icons.

Two different faces are printed on both front and back side, and the owner of the bag can change the face as she/he feels something during conversation with someone.

If the owner feels happy in the dialogue, happy face ;-) will stay but if not, unhappy face :-( will come on the surface.

We all humans have many ways to express our feeling luckily. Face expressions, body languages, voice tones and showing attitude etc.

Humans have been developing their possibilities by making tools and also emotion, I believe.

The reason I chose a bag for the outcome is, a bag is a tool for keeping our belongings as identity, and it takes us out from inside. I think a bag is a key to connect outside. In the outside world, we meet people and having conversation. This flow is necessary and we learn lots of things from relationship, and it brings mutual understanding among people. Humans are simple but complicated.

I made the bag to help to make relationship smoothly in the complex communication.

*Perhaps, your belongings also might do communication, no one knows!

Self initiated project 1: emotional literal communication

Project outcome 1:

Basic pattern design

(2009)

We often put emoticon/face icon to express and deliver our feeling on text message or e-mail.

By using these icons, plain digital conversation become much emotional and friendly.

My idea for the final major/self initiated project is using these icons to create an outcome of the new and modern way of communication.

This project is formed by three outcomes,

1: Basic pattern design (this page)

2: Hello! Bags

3: Patchwork of emotion