We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer YunFen Wang about their original and creative Oil Paint design work. YunFen Wang is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original oil paint works.
YunFen Wang ("YW") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Interpreting Discomfort Oil Paint. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
YW : I like to find inspiration in my life, it can be recent events or my feelings. I like to convey feelings to viewers through my works, so as to achieve the function of communication and resonate.
YW : This work explores the invisible pressure of life and how they are formed. The work uses the unusual combination of hands and eyes, making people feel uncomfortable is exactly what I want to convey.
YW : I will continue to explore and research this topic, maybe through different methods or media to add more depth to the work.
YW : There are currently ten works in this series, and it took a year from the idea to these ten works.
YW : This work has a lot to do with me personally. I am a sensitive person and easily feel pressured by other glances or actions. Sharing these thoughts is also a process for me to relieve stress.
YW : If there is any opportunity to cooperate in any form, I would very much welcome.
YW : This series of works is presented in a surreal way. After many discussions and designs, I feel that the surreal way of presentation can maximize the tension of the picture and attract the viewer's eyes.
YW : YiLan Liu is a Taiwanese artist, and her works have inspired me a lot. In her work you can feel the richness and subtlety of emotion, which also influences the way I interpret my work.
YW : Interested collectors.
YW : In this work, I combined my own cultural background and living environment, and it is a work that is difficult to reproduce.
YW : The name is really a difficult question, and it bothered me a lot in the early stage of creation. When I understand how my pressure is formed, I also reinterpret this pressure in the work, so the name "Interpreting Discomfort" is very intuitive to me and fits my work well.
YW : Oil paint.
YW : The hand and the eye are inspired by the Thousand-Handed Avalokitesvara, the story of Avalokitesvara is teaches people to love and care, but too much attention is a trouble for a shy person like me.
YW : I develop my projects on my own.
YW : Technology is important in this design. In order to avoid unnecessary association during viewing, the accuracy of hands and eyes is required.
YW : In the early stage of the creation, in addition to my own ideas, I also collected the uncomfortable feelings of many people around me. In addition to the presentation of pictures, color is also a main research direction.
YW : The technical aspect is a challenge, in order to make the work look more realistic, I practiced hundreds of hands. And then thinking about how can this idea resonate with the audience.
YW : I want to share my work with more people, but also to tell people who feel in the same way that they are not alone.
YW : Practice and not be afraid to make mistakes.
YW : No, thank you.
