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After many years as a musician’s companion, the guitar became part of a museum collection. In my piece, I imagined its second life - a moment when it leaves behind the stillness of the museum and returns to the stage, this time in the contemporary energy of a rock concert
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The Lover’s Eye was never just a portrait. It was a portrait of a gaze. The art of looking back.
For the #FLORAMuseumChallenge, I chose the 19th-century Lover’s Eye Bracelet, an intimate object featuring a miniature of a loved one’s eye. Pieces like these were worn close to the body so the wearer could imagine their beloved’s gaze resting upon them 👁️
That idea became my creative starting point: what if the gaze that we see in art could be returned?
So I imagined a woman walking through present-day New York wearing the bracelet. As we get closer to the miniature, we find "Ivy" actually looking out from her own time. The person preserved inside the object is suddenly looking back at us, creating a fleeting exchange between past and present.
The engraved name “Ivy” on the back of the actual bracelet became a small but meaningful detail that helped me imagine the story behind the object.
And so I wanted to create something that felt like a visual poem 💛
A gaze captured centuries ago, finding its way back to another pair of eyes.
wow. Love the idea!!
SIX SKIES explores what happens when details from museum objects are no longer confined to the scale in which we usually encounter them.
I selected six Open Access works from The Met, each carrying a distinct ornamental language from a different culture, and reimagined their patterns at architectural scale.
Instead of remaining on a ceramic object, stained-glass window, tile, jar, or dish, each ornament temporarily takes over the same ceiling inside The Met.
I imagined the ceiling as a projection or holographic installation: one architectural space capable of revealing different histories through light, pattern, and scale.
Armenian — Egg-Shaped Ornament
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/478391
American — John La Farge, Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/9789
Syrian — Tile Panel, ca. 1430, Damascus
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/457726
Iranian — Eight-Pointed Star-Shaped Tile
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/444459
Korean — Dragon Jar, Joseon dynasty
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/76114
Japanese — Dish in Shape of Japanese Court Woman
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/46509
"The Seated Giant" is one of Goya's dark prints. Goya’s dark period represents sadness, terror, pessimism, and loneliness.
While I tried to capture that, I also added a touch of hope, showing that hope still exists inside the giant.
I created an interactive hologram room at the museum where visitors try to interact with the giant, though he is reluctant and only interacts occasionally.
i love this concept!