Colorful Plushies

SCI_Arc Visual Studies / Fall 14'

Instructor : Florencia Pita

This visual studies project studied how changing an object’s colors and patterns while conserving its outline can nonetheless fundamentally change its appearance. Towards this end, we first produced a series of images by applying various color patterns to two-dimensional geometrical combinations and creating abstracted versions of existing paintings. These images were projected and mapped onto the three-dimensional shape of two embracing toys, a combination of forms borrowed from balloon characters in the New York Macy's Parade; this was then rendered. The result is an object with no clear morphology other than its silhouette. By manipulating the lighting and the shadows produced, another reading of the object emerges.

A further layer obscuring the original form was added by using different fabrication methods in realizing the project. We first milled the outline of the object, then laid small pieces of ceramic tile within this shape. The tiles introduced an additional pattern, adding a physical depth and another texture to the object.

In collaboration with: Tri Ta