Weather Map Project

(Writing from 2021)

I am interested in linguistic elements of signs and icons from weather charts. Weather is like the emotional status of the Earth. Humans have documented and analyzed it like a daily journal because it highly relates to the human lifestyle and psychological state. I explore how weather charts visually connect to human society. Since each abstract symbol and icon indicates complicating movements, directions, speeds, and status, I utilize them to represent boundaries and connections in our community.  

My work portrays visual variations rearranging the graphics out of the original context utilizing layers. After collecting daily weather charts as references, I disassembled them into separated pieces or overlapped different weather charts into one image. Julie Mehretu's artistic style and Rirkrit Tiravanija's Untitled 2008-2011 (the map of the land of feeling) inspired my work creating new systems layering images. Each part of the work maintains the essential elements from its original context. The unexpected visual union of different materials and shapes resolves in a collage piece with a sense of depth between other universes. 

For example, The Wind is a collage work, and I attached copies of my study drawings, pipe cleaner, and blue tape on the drawing of boundaries of states and a weather chart. The thin blue lines on the background express calm and rigid edges separating spaces. In contrast to it, the bold blue tape, pipe cleaner, and the icons in the copies convey the various sense of fluidity, movement, and speed crossing the boundaries. The contrast of the line qualities creates a sense of depth and visual richness. I am interested in linguistic elements of signs and icons from weather charts. Weather is like the emotional status of the Earth. Humans have documented and analyzed it like a daily journal because it highly relates to the human lifestyle and psychological state. I explore how weather charts visually connect to human society. Since each abstract symbol and icon indicates complicating movements, directions, speeds, and status, I utilize them to represent boundaries and connections in our community.  

My work portrays visual variations rearranging the graphics out of the original context utilizing layers. After collecting daily weather charts as references, I disassembled them into separated pieces or overlapped different weather charts into one image. Julie Mehretu's artistic style and Rirkrit Tiravanija's Untitled 2008-2011 (the map of the land of feeling) inspired my work creating new systems layering images. Each part of the work maintains the essential elements from its original context. The unexpected visual union of different materials and shapes resolves in a collage piece with a sense of depth between other universes. 

For example, The Wind is a collage work, and I attached copies of my study drawings, pipe cleaner, and blue tape on the drawing of boundaries of states and a weather chart. The thin blue lines on the background express calm and rigid edges separating spaces. In contrast to it, the bold blue tape, pipe cleaner, and the icons in the copies convey the various sense of fluidity, movement, and speed crossing the boundaries. The contrast of the line qualities creates a sense of depth and visual richness.