INSIDE… Out
Design PROPOSAL for a private client
CREATIVE DIRECTION BY REBECCA ROSS CARLEN, STUDIO SORS.
OVERVIEW -
Conception, design and realisation of a full-scale outdoor scultpure for the garden of a private family residence.
SITE CHARACTERISTICS -
Eastern Ecclectic. Large well developped private garden with an established theme involving both an eastern traditional garden composition, and western contemporary arts. Various sculptures are currently present. Specific site size and placement of the proposed production to be determined according to design.
PROJECT THEME AND INSPIRATION -
“INSIDE… OUT”.
It’s source inspiration elements derive from a creative study of the transformation of collectible interior design objects, unique bespoke pieces made for the private interior of the design collector, yet conceived with a practical use application for daily life. Each object begins in this manner, as an indentifiable work created for the interior space INSIDE, and the creative process of this project is the following of the object’s transition, we become witnesses, watching the evolution of each concept’s energy on its journey to a final exterior destination in the OUT.
Transformation 1
The LOOKING
Like the caterpillar that suddenly hides away in its cacoon, to later emerge as a magnificent butterfly - the subtle organic curves of a dining table surface transform into stone pillars, whispering like communing gods overlooking their surrounding gardens. THE LOOKING.
Observing. Sharing intimate details about their observations. Sharing intimate details about their garden, the day, the nights, their HUMANS. Wise and imposing in stature, their slim profile and smooth textured bronze surface renders them irresistably touchable, their textured roughness layered deep below the surface. Elegant, approachable guardians of their garden day and night, they appear closer together from the front vantage point, but are placed with adequate space to allow one to walk between each pillar, touch each surface and join in on their communion.
Design, Author: Rebecca Carlen, Visuals: Baptiste Vassot, Studio SORS.
Materials: Cast Bronze powdered resin and natural stone.
Transformation 2
MAZE
Maze is a journey taking you along a winding ancient road that leads the observer through one of the most ancient configurations of design - the fractal. The arrangement of elements into repeating and expanding patterns may be as old as time, yet we forget. We forget, or perhaps take for granted that design is our nature, and it surrounds us. We see the maze in nature, in the configuration of huts in ancient African villages, in the patternwork of quilts, in the repeat motifs of steel skyscrapers, in the meticulous configuration of the English garden - MAZE is everywhere. INSIDE and OUT.
Maze is comprised of shapes that began as a group of vases - hollow vessels for the inside, waiting to receive a dry flower or other figure from nature. Transformed, the sculptures are cast bronze and combined, are configured in an infinite and multidirectional turning. Their hollow nature filled and capped, as no longer vessels, they’ve transformed into stout structures that drip upward as if a portion of their matter is being pulled toward the sky.
Design, Author: Rebecca Carlen, Visuals: Baptiste Vassot, Studio SORS., France
Materials: Cast Patinated Bronzed Steel
TRANSFORMATION 3
THRONE
Every castle needs a throne, as does every garden need a place to admire, and even install oneself like a bird pirched on a tree branch, or an admirer posed on a THRONE.
A place for silence, a space for reflection, a respite to relax upon and inhale the beauty of both what surrounds and what lays above. Inspired by a tiny interior decorative sculpture called LIVES, which represents the cycle of life itself, with its rounded a full birth, its elongated arch of life and its flat surface signifying the direction of life’s road. Imagine it, surrounded by tall reeds of bamboo, lush grasses or tall flowers… like life itself, its end curve turns downward, returning to the earth.
Design: Rémi Capdepuy. Author: Rebecca Carlen, Visuals: Baptiste Vassot, Studio SORS., France
Materials: Cast Bronze, powdered graphite, minerals and stones, layered in resin.