Sophie Chung

MICRO-UNIVERSE



Installation Art / 100cm×262cmx170cm/2020
MATERIAL: Mixed Media with Acrylic,Fluid Acrylics,Glass paints, Prints, Various Texture Paper on
Acrylic Sheets

June 2020
The concept was inspired by the vast microbe world. I designed an immersive installation art with several mixed media. The microbe images which are magnified gradually would subvert the visional definition of people towards “size” as the viewers enter the exhibition room and catch sight of the images. It’s to present the vastness of the microbes and the insignificancy of human beings. The viewers would enter a brand new micron universe and participate in the division, recombination, and cloning of the microbiome.

In this artwork, I have proceeded mixed media painting on several trimmed acrylic sheets.I mainly explored the chemical property of different pigments and simulated the microbial reproduction and division forms with the special chemical reactions between the glass pigments and acrylic pigments. Coupled with the space, it allows people to pass through the semi-translucent sheets and have interaction with the artwork.




In addition to painting, I also combined several printing technologies, such as laser printing on the transparency film
and silk screen printing, to present different styles of Collage.

I intentionally larger the distance between the clear acrylic sheets to have people freely pass through the semi-translucent sheets which are gradually magnified and interact with the artwork.




Process Detaied/Experiment:

The rough quality of the acrylic on the sheets failed to achieve the visual effects that I intended to present. Therefore, I started to seek for the color media that could increase its fluidity while still maintaining the surface color. Successfully, after several months of repeated color experiments, I found that the chemical nature of glass pigments could speed up the polymerization of acrylic acid. The grains like fluid decomposition which are produced in the quick decomposition upon contact creates a semitransparent organic pattern which is very interesting to the vision. Meanwhile, the glass pigment is also covered with acrylic acid. It maintains the brightness of the surface and clears up the rough quality while increasing the fluidity of the pigments.


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