Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
A monumental sculptural installation rises from a misty pastoral field, captured during golden hour when warm amber sunlight suffuses the entire scene. The sculpture, occupying the left two-thirds of the composition, consists of approximately twenty to thirty elongated triangular prisms arranged in a radial starburst pattern, each prism extending outward from a central core like rays of a crystalline sun. Beginning at the top and moving clockwise, the uppermost elements glow with cool cerulean blue like clear winter sky, transitioning through panels of vivid magenta reminiscent of orchid petals, then warm coral pink suggesting dawn clouds. Continuing rightward and downward, brilliant cadmium orange segments radiate warmth like captured firelight, while golden yellow panels shimmer with the temperature of honey in sunlight. The lower portions incorporate viridian green smooth as sea glass and deeper blue tones cool as twilight shadow. Each triangular panel appears translucent, allowing the setting sun behind to penetrate and illuminate the colors from within, creating an effect like light through stained glass. The supporting framework consists of dark metal structural elements forming the geometric skeleton. At the base, delicate white mist hovers perhaps knee-height, soft and cool as morning fog, partially obscuring where the sculpture meets the golden-green grassland. To the far right, approximately one-fifteenth the sculpture's height, stands a solitary human figure in silhouette, providing scale that emphasizes the installation's monumental presence. The background reveals a horizontal band of distant buildings and trees rendered as soft purple-gray silhouettes beneath a sky that graduates from warm peach at the horizon through pale yellow to soft lavender above. Two small birds fly near the sculpture's upper reaches.
Pop Star is based on the geometric shape of the icosahedron. Through the deconstruction of space and the reconstruction of form, the artist finally constructed this 'monster' with a huge volume that exceeds the human visual reading scale, like an alien object flying in from another dimension of time and space. Viewers could feel the association between the Pop Star and transcendental theory that Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The world globes itself in a drop of dew, while the artist enlarges a tiny compound eye into a behemoth.