Windowscape

A reconnection to Nature through the play of light.

In restricting the physical space inside a hospital, the waiting room often has a disconnection from the outside world. People feel closed and have no connection to their surroundings.

In our proposal, we are trying to evoke nature in a way that is in between actual landscape imagery and completely abstract art. Through the play of light, the piece is showing the dynamic yet subtle change of the shadow of a tree, representing a window view. Giving a sense of there’s a space beyond the wall. We approach this idea not by capturing a landscape scenery but by using an organic way to represent the window view.

The research paper we based on is “Art in the Hospital: Its Impact on the Feelings and Emotional State of Patients Admitted to an Internal Medicine Unit”, we learned that in terms of releasing people’s stress inside the waiting room, statistic shows that the people are preferring natural landscape imagery more than an abstract art piece.

We want to present not just an object from nature but also an effect from nature.

The image shows the composition of forming a shadow in nature, and the same principle is applied to our project.

The light sources are at the back, paper at the front, and opaque objects are placed in the middle. Moreover, to analog the movement of the swaying leaves, we installed a motor inside the box.

We hide everything inside the box. The appearance of this installation is clean and simple.

The number of installations can be changed depending on the size of the space. Each windowscape captures different views. The entire composition evokes the whole picture of the scenery beyond the wall by showing parts of the views.