PERSONAL PROJECT


I would like to create a 3D story box.
In the last project, I rewrote Robinson Crusoe. In my version, Robinson was an astronaut, his spacecraft crashed and fell alone to a new planet. There are many exotic creatures and landscapes on this planet, a pink sea, the ducksnake, fish with chicken legs, peaches like onions, apples with kiwifruit flesh...
Last week I saw the work of mixed media artist, Claire Read; many of her works are inside a small box and every small box which is a scene or a story. This has inspired me to make a story box about my own memory.
I would like to use my work to reappear the scenes in Robinson Crusoe.
my aim is using all the different materials to make a miniature 3D scenes in the box. I would like to make few story boxes to illustrate the story.
Robinson Crusoe 3D story box
"Somehow I connect emotionally with the objects I choose to work with, almost like secretly, they know what they would like to be."Claire Read said.
"Each piece, or" story box ", is created entirely by reworking vintage and antique objects, often with a combination of vintage textiles and haberdashery.





Artist
Tatsuya Tanaka
In 2011, Japanese Art director and photographer Tatsuya Tanaka realized his penchant for miniature art and started creating his awe-inspiring miniature dioramas. Four years later, the artist still adds to his diorama collection on a daily basis, and his creations are getting ever stranger and more creative; a mango slice suddenly becomes a small island bedecked with a palm tree, a circuit board is converted into a golf field with actual players, and a rolled up magazine is miraculously transformed into a wave for a surfer! The photographer’s knack lies in imagining everyday objects in ingenious ways and his fantastical childlike imagination leaves me enthralled.




Thomas Doyle
American sculptor Thomas Doyle has been famously crafting splendid isolated spaces and microcosmic idyllic scenes which have been devastated by calamities and catastrophes. His 1:43 scale series feature tiny human figures, immaculate green landscapes, over-the-edge and buried houses, and demolished estates. Doyle’s unsettling works are sometimes sealed under glass, and exude a prurient feel as the large-as-God observers look down upon frightening and strange moments in the lives of people as a shady intruder loiters outside their windows or their homes are destroyed and shattered down to the ground. These moments in time are blurry and distorted, wrapped in a dreamlike atmosphere!

Lim Pui Wan



Going by the name PicoWorm, the Malaysian clay art hobbyist is making people crazy over her miniature designs which she regularly posts on her myriad social media platforms. Her artist name is inspired from pico- a terrifically small unit in metric system-, and worm taken from a “bookworm”. She crafts her life-like foods out of air dry clay and paints over them with acrylic. She displays her amazing creations in her realistic doll-sized provision shop, reminiscent of the retro looking mom-and-pop outlets sprawling all over Singapore and Malaysia, complete with Coca-Cola posters and a calendar at the back.





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I found a wooden box in the second-hand shop.
sketch






experiment & process

I found this material in a toy store, it can easily be shaped, air dry.

















Background design

























With its enamelled effect, this glazing resin adds relief and shine to flat surfaces. I first stick all the fish to the box, then use it to glazed like the sea water, I put the liquid into the box and cover all the fish I stick, after 12 hours will be ready.



When the first layer was dry, I drew some fish on its top. After that, I filled the box with the remaining glazing liquid.
FINAL OUTCOME

