DAVID YANG
Brooklyn, NY

A Taiwanese American artist aiming to create memorable, meaningful, and joyful interactions, while exploring how people unconsciously communicate with each other.

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03 COMFORT ZONE
4 MONTHS — 12.07.2022


MATERIALS:
ACRYLIC, CONCRETE, HEATER

CATEGORIES:
SCULPTURE / MOLD / PCOMP
What happens when you lose your comfort zone? 

This series focuses on regaining the space where one feels safe or at ease while exploring the intimacy and tenderness within. It consists a miniture hot spring and growing plants on a found object from the street.



Installation setup for the gallery opening in NYU Berlin. Photos by myself and Maria Kotylevskaja.

Scuptlure 1 — Bathing



Bathing explores the personal moments when the artist feels most connected to his fleeing identity without any physical or emotional shields. The sculpture draws a parallel between the changing states of the water and the artist’s ever-changing states of identities.

The audience is encouraged to feel the hot water and draw on the glass, immersing themselves with the miniature safe space.

Process Documentation



Sketches


3D Modeling


3D Printing

Molding & Casting


Pcomp

Gluing

Scuptlure 2 — Aim in Life



Aim in Life is a personal reflection on the struggle between approaches to living. The artist reflects on the frustration of balancing emotional and physical needs with solutions. Instead, the artist tries gardening his life with little love every day. The sculpture is a manifestation of experimenting the alternative mindsets to living and reimagining ways of caring.

The audience is encouraged to touch the plants and feels the mist, feeling the living plants brush along with their hands.

Process Documentation




Seeds


Growing


Mist


Showing


🙏 Special Thanks To to @retozarch and @ianporterfield for their molding and concrete casting advice. Thanks to Aleksander and Susanne for opening new ways to explore the process of making art. Thanks to @retozarch for finding the dart board on the street and watering the plants when I’m away and to @oliv.stewart & @olivia.pietrzak for our conversations that lead to the successful use of Chia seeds. Thanks to @mingyue1214 for helping me with the documentation and installation. Thanks for the classmates for all the love & support throughout this semester in @nyuberlin.