For this project, I transformed four historic interiors from The Met’s Open Access collection int...

For this project, I transformed four historic interiors from The Met’s Open Access collection int...For this project, I transformed four historic interiors from The Met’s Open Access collection int...

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Ruben

• Sep 4

For this project, I transformed four historic interiors from The Met’s Open Access collection into the home of a fictional aristocrat. But the real star isn’t Elizabeth Jane or her extravagant rooms—it’s one very unfortunate statue of Athena. Watch the film to discover how a priceless artifact survives bad taste, worse decisions, and an aristocrat who should never be left alone with museum property. Athena(Alina): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/251476 rooms: https://www.metmuseum.org/ru/art/collection/search/202996 https://www.metmuseum.org/ru/art/collection/search/196910 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/196917 https://www.metmuseum.org/ru/art/collection/search/189164

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Ruben

• Sep 5

I used to take playwriting classes, so when I first saw the statue of Athena with her missing nose, my brain immediately turned it into a story: someone must have dropped poor Athena face-first.

That became the starting point of the project. I wanted to reconstruct the statue and...

Luiza L

• Sep 5

These angels are diving me insane 😂😭

Bella Brillantes

pro

• Sep 2

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.

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Leena | UI/UX & Product Design

• Sep 3

wow. Love the idea!!

Romério Castro

• Sep 2

Inspired by "Classical Landscape with Figures" by Henri Mauperché (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17th century)

This piece begins the way the original painting does: a classical archway framing a quiet courtyard, statues watching over a still pool. But something in the stillness felt like the calm before an approach. So we imagined soldiers arriving through that arch, footsteps, tension, the kind of silence that makes you brace for conflict.

Then the twist: they weren't there to fight. They just wanted to swim.

Painting link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437039

#aimovie #painting #crafting

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Mara Mironova

pro

• Sep 2

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

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Ruben

• Sep 3

woooowwwww. it's perfect. i hope you'll win!

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• Sep 2

The Lover’s Eye was never just a portrait. It was a portrait of a gaze. The art of looking back.

That idea became my creative starting point: what if the gaze that we see in art could be returned?

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.

floramuseumchallenge

Leena | UI/UX & Product Design

• Sep 3

wow. Love the idea!!

Romério Castro

• Sep 2

Inspired by "Classical Landscape with Figures" by Henri Mauperché (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17th century)

Then the twist: they weren't there to fight. They just wanted to swim.

Painting link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437039

#aimovie #painting #crafting

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Mara Mironova

pro

• Sep 2

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.

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

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Ruben

• Sep 3

woooowwwww. it's perfect. i hope you'll win!