Golden A' Design Award Winner 2025
This audio description presents a horizontal outdoor sculpture installation featuring three smooth, curved forms rising from a dark reflective pool of water. Beginning with orientation, the composition is captured in daylight under overcast skies, creating soft, even illumination without harsh shadows. The water surface occupies approximately the lower two-thirds of the image, appearing nearly black with a glassy, mirror-like quality that reflects the sculptural elements and surrounding environment. In the left portion of the foreground, the largest sculptural form emerges from the water, its surface displaying a gradient from cool turquoise blue at its peaks, reminiscent of tropical shallow waters or oxidized copper, transitioning to warmer yellow-green tones like young willow leaves at its lower edges. The form features two gentle peaks rising and falling in smooth, continuous curves suggesting mountain silhouettes or the backs of swimming creatures, with a satin finish that appears smooth as polished stone, cool and slightly slick to imagined touch. A second similar form appears in the right middle ground, smaller in scale, echoing the organic double-peaked shape in the same celadon-to-chartreuse coloration. A third, smallest form is visible at the far right edge. Beneath each sculpture, circular underwater lights glow with warm amber-gold radiance like scattered embers or coins, creating soft halos of illumination visible through the dark water. Rising from the center background, two tall cylindrical columns with mirror-polished stainless steel surfaces reflect the surrounding garden in distorted, elongated fragments, their surfaces appearing smooth as mercury, cold and precisely machined. The background reveals a cultivated garden landscape with emerald green hedgerows trimmed into geometric shapes, deep burgundy-red flowering shrubs, and mature deciduous trees with delicate branching patterns, all rendered in soft focus suggesting depth and atmospheric distance. The overall atmosphere conveys tranquility and contemplation, with implied stillness broken only by occasional ripples across the water's surface.
Brilliance merges Lingnan culture with copper art, featuring eight copper fish that symbolize prosperity and elegance in one Pengrui's pool. It enriches the artwork's level and offers a unique perspective, reflecting Guangzhou's leisurely lifestyle. The piece seamlessly integrates traditional culture with modern design, embodying the project's themes of leisure and harmony.