Listening to "Blinding Lights” reminded me of my own heartbreak experience. The Weeknd’s song evoked very strong emotions which I summarized in three main keywords: broken, bright, and energetic.
In those models, I aim to tell the story of my process of overcoming a past heartbreak. I draw my inspiration from artists and model makers I discovered such as Isamu Noguchi, as well as various anonymous students’ work that I found online.
Throughout the semester, I mostly took inspiration from material experiments
such as clay sculptures and paper wrapping techniques to develop my models. The final model that you can see here is divided into 3 parts that separate different emotional states of a heartbreak: from the broken, dark past, to the heartwarming light of hope that leads to the future happiness. Those were the stages I had to pass through to overcome the betrayal of the person I loved.
Through the process of designing a model based on my emotions, I discovered how to how to describe, explain, and convey my personal experience
of listening to this song. Here, I wanted to illustrate those feelings using the techniques I gathered along the way, my own creative thoughts, the design principles I learnt, and evocative model making materials and techniques, to communicate my own experience to others.
