Ningnong's installation development: "Feminine"

After i did a research of two artist work, I try to find an interesting place in the faculty that would be a place for my installation and i came up with the site on fourth floor of the faculty. It is a stair that serve as a path walk to the back of the library that no longer be used and be locked. It is the neglected and abandon site that i think it is interesting in the way it is.

For me the site is a bit scary according to Thai belief and that make it worse. People do not want to get into the space. So i come up with the concept of preconception which is the way to change people perspective in this case I want to change the site where people want to stay away and never care about it to be a place where people want to visit and want to stay inside the space.

Fist development : Trompe-l'œil

First, i came up with the idea of Trompe-l'œil, an art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions, which is to create the fake thing that able to deceive people and tempt them to come interact with the space.

Second development

Second idea for my installation work is still using the same concept as the first idea but different in the way to performing. The idea is to create the comfort space which make people want to stay rather than leave the space.

 I did a survey on which kind of fabric that most people like it in different term. And also did an experiment on light with the candle but the use of it seems to be fail because it does not give the sufficient light and also danger to place it in the site ( it can easily cause a fire).

 Also dealing with the way to hang the fabric

 Final development

I did more research on what is the most attractive thing to people so that i will get the very effective installation theme that will effect on people feeling.

According to the survey result, woman seems to be the most attractive thing for most people so this turn to be a theme for my work. I adapt the main characteristic of female which called 'feminine' with my installation work.

Human is not a firefly, but both similar by the way they interact with the light.  Not only the firefly that like to stay near the light place but human also love to stay close to the light area. It can lead people to come around and stay near the light. Therefore, LED light become one of the important components for my installation.

In the site area is quite hot and the ventilation is very bad, one reason is that it us a dead end path so that the wind will not pass through it making people who stay inside that area feel so uncomfortable. So one of the thing that i must change in that space is the pressure and the temperature inside the space, first by using the dry ice to adjust the temperature and making the dream like scenario in the same time but it may harm the participant who come to interact with the space by smelling the carbon dioxide that come from the dry ice when it releasing the smoke or hurting themselves by stepping on it and it did not cool the space that much. So lastly i end up with the electrical fan which help emphasizing the softness of the fabric and make people feel much more comfortable.