WOII Week 12 | Art Ecosystems
Starting off the day by walking through an open studio works that was put up by our year 3 seniors in both diploma and BA courses, one artwork that stood out to me will be the one titled “typing tembusu” whereby the creator snaps photos of the tembusu tree, using the branches as a guide, to come up with an interesting typeface. As I am interested in exploring down the photography path, this open studio works open up my mind to many more possibilities on how I can incorporate photography into my future designs.
A photography artist Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist, where one of his exhibitions, Amazônia, deepen my interest in photography who also changed my perspective towards black and white photography.
"Amazônia a major exhibition by the award-winning photographer Sebastião Salgado (b. 1944, Brazil). It spotlights the Amazon region and its ecosystems coming under the threat of deforestation and climate change, while featuring the voices, portraits, and perspectives of the Indigenous communities who live in – and with – the largest rainforest on the planet." (National Museum Of Singapore, 3 Apr 2025).
Through this exhibition, it incorporates background amazon music together with stunning photography images which enhances the whole experience inside the exhibition itself, bringing us a step closer into the amazon environment.
As a designer in my ecology, I wish to a create multi-sensory and immersive storytelling images that will not only capture the audience's eyes but also to let the audience experience how each photo was taken at that point of time through different senses like sounds, smell or touch that they can get to interact with while walking down the exhibition.
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Encyclopædia Britannica. "Sebastião Salgado", https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sebastiao-Salgado#/media/1/519125/123122. Accessed 14 April 2025.
National Museum of Singapore. "Amazônia: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado", 3 April 2025, https://www.nhb.gov.sg/nationalmuseum/whats-on/exhibition/amazonia. Accessed 14 April 2025.
Empowerkidz, Anupma. "What is Multisensory Learning?", 22 June 2020, https://empowerkidz.com/what-is-multisensory-learning/. Accessed 14 April 2025.
