'Hana Toronagare' (Evaluation)
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Evaluation for Hana Toronagare Title: Hana Toronagare Dimensions: 14 x 12.2 x 15 cm Media: Wood, LED candle, washi paper, sumi-‐ink, ink palette Date done: January 20, 2011 The project ‘Hana Toronagare’ was influenced by the Chinese/Japanese culture. In Japan, there is a festival called “Obon” festival which takes place from July or August 13th~16th, depending on their calendar. The process is a way to guide the spirits that have been departed. The origin of the festival is from a similar festival in China. They use firecrackers on the side of the road and the Chinese pass the boats to ward off the evil spirits. “Hana Torongare” came from the previous project “Through a Lantern”. Same as “Through a Lantern” I used washi-‐paper, sumi-‐ink, wood. The materials that I have added and used for “Hana Toronagare” are the new ink palette that I bought, and the LED candles that were needed to light the lantern. For the wood, it was different than the one that I had used for “Through a Lantern”. When I went to HOMES, I had 4 choices of wood, different weight, color, and thickness. I decided to go with the lightest wood and paint on it with acrylic. Since I wanted to give a traditional color, I painted the structure of the wood with dark brown. Acrylic was a good choice, because it dried up fast and therefore I could paste my screen designs onto the structure of the lantern. Before painting onto the real paper, I searched on the sites for different types of flowers and with those flowers; I tried painting it with the ink-‐palette that I had bought. The flowers were hard to paint with since the screens for the lantern are small, I had to paint them smaller and it was hard to try creating gradient with each stroke. For brush strokes, to move freely, its easier to do on a bigger size paper. When you twist the brush, the tip of the brush flattens and leaves a thick paint on the paper. I also tried mixing the colors in two ways. The first way is to use a color to paint the structure, and then use a different color to go in between the lines. The other way I tried was to first dab the paintbrush with yellow, or one color, and then dab the tip of the brush onto another color. Then you press the brush down onto the paper and the paint mark that it leaves, become the petals. For “Hana Toronagare”, I received ideas from different people on the size of the lantern. Some people said if she were I, she would do 3 big lanterns whereas other people said they would do small mini ones. From the beginning, I was planning to do the small mini lanterns so I decided to do that. For the next project (project 4), I decided to use these lanterns floating on the water and take photos of them, focusing on the reflection of the lantern on the water.