Internship for Karmameju ApS

Design for leaflets/ postcards.

'No beauty without truth. Only natural ingredients'

T-Shirt design 'Leopard' (inspired by Amur Leopard, the rarest cat in the world)

Three Short Films: How it was made

Looking into the possibility of changing the perception of a site through filmmaking and editing process, allowing the site to dictate the process of editing. Throughout the process, the desired outcome would be to create a ’mental space’ (dream) within chosen sites.

Discovering the effects of different filming techniques and how the relationship between camera and filmed object interact once the aspect of randomness is allowed.

The creation of three short film has allowed me to unravel these possibilities. Thee films were filmed in three different spaces with completely different atmosphere. the only common thing that these spaces have is a strong directionality to them, either vertical or horizontal. 

here are some photographs i took during the process of the making.

space for film 1: White-ness

Space for film 2: Sunset-ness

Space for film 3: Float-less

Limits. Short film

The aim was to create a film that would embody the dream experience. According to Gilles Fauconnier in his book ‘Mental Spaces: aspects of meaning construction in natural language’, mental space is a space of imagination, the imaginary space that the speaker refers to. So anything can be the mental space, if only the person can construct or recall it from the memory. And I have chosen the dream for my mental space at this stage. But as the dream experience is very personal, and true only for one person, I couldn’t avoid making a film very personal as well.

Reading Freud and his ‘Interpretations of dreams’, I found this idea: if a dream can be analyzed through recollection of the memories that have formed it, then it should be possible to form a dream through building the train of memories, that would have connection, and form an ‘artificial dream’.

I have used my personal recent memories to filter the ones, which would occur in my own dreams, and using them, I have recreated a dream that I could have had. Using the fear of height as the starting point, I have recalled places with the same feeling to it. I have looked at the fear of height not as a phobia, but as the strong restriction of the available ‘active space’, the space where it is possible to move. It could be argued that fear of heights is quite close to claustrophobia, if looking at it from this point of view. So this idea led me to the main theme for my film: exploration of the limits (both emotional, or attached to people, and physical).

Design Proposal for Multi-Faith Prayer Room

The challenge we had to face was that the room is basically a closed box with no windows and low ceilings. The task was to design a multi-faith prayer room, that could also be used as a 'quiet room', and could be used for up to 30 people at once for Friday prayer. 

As some religions require strong orientation in the room(for ex. Muslims have to face South-East when praying) and flexible devision for male and female, we have decided to install a glass wall with the textile (that my partner for this project has created) between two glass panels onto the South-Eastern corner, and it is also lit from the behind, to create a sense of opening in the room, almost like a large window. 

The choice of colour palette came from nature: beige, golden and brown for earth, blue and turquoise are for the sky. We have chosen neutral colours and design for this room, because there shouldn't be anything flashy, when the room has to be a place, where people can relax and reflect.

 As all the lights are installed in the floor along the walls, it creates the sense of lightness and the walls are almost floating. Three roman curtains in the middle of the room can provide desirable devision and can be regulated in height and density. 

The washing facilities also needed to be redesigned, as Muslim Religion requires to have hands and feet washed before the pray. So a foot bath with a low separate shower for all the needs has been installed, and as it is completely flush with the floor, it keeps the desirable effect of modern neutral interior.

in a search of a surrealist interior: 'Inscape' by Matta

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'..search the interior depth of the psyche analogous to evocative metaphors of the natural landscape.'
(Mical, Thomas. 'Surrealism and Architecture, p.53)

the beauty of broken prospectives, where everything appears to be imagination in a sever vertigo,
where you can see so many things, but wait,
not to see them,
to imagine them, to reflect yourself onto the canvas, to be possessed by this surreal interior of the canvas,
where canvas is an escape from the surrounding,
or it is the surrounding, while you are approaching your subconsciousness. 

in a search of surrealist interiors: Andre Breton, 42 Rue Fontaine

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'..Surrealist appropriation of lived space aimed to inhabit not the private sphere as such but the dialectic between personal and collective, and the complex to and fro between the closed/occulted and the public/exhibited politics, space and actions that formed the hub of French surrealism's problems of inter-war years...

..A significant purpose of Breton's home was thus to shelter a physical and intellectual connection of objects whose prime function was to locate the self with the wider world outside. The status of these collections as poetic rather than archival or taxonometric encounters were further enhanced  by the inevitable shifts and rearrangements of their display, open to the dynamics of change and accident...'

( Thomas Mical, 'Surrealism and Architecture', 2005)

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