Postlude
Post-lude is a cubicle space designed to give positive perspective on death, based on 3 classical music.
Project Background: Online Exhibition
The exhibition is part of a space design club activity within Industrial Design Department. Based on a concept of imagining our future after the pandemic, students were asked to name their project after “POST - ”. On a 10x10x10 cubicle, each team designed their own thoughts on the path we have head, the values we have to appreciate in the middle of Covid.
Scenic Design
The space of life depicts a universal perception of death that inevitably faces in human life. The tombstone made of ice intuitively shows the image of death. The dark and cold atmosphere represents the fear and fear of death.
The various colors of light shining through the stained glass give the dark space an inverted atmosphere while giving it a holy feeling.
Mozart, Requiem In D minor K. 626
Mozart's "Requem" is a song to soothe the soul of the dead. The rhythm of the accompaniment sounds like tear drops falling.
However, he expressed dark colors using only three chords, and the beautiful lyricism in the third song "Lacrimosa" stands out particularly, culminating in sorrow.
The water flowing into the boundary space falls rhythmically to the beat. The stairs entangled like a maze and the candles placed between them take a paradoxical structure and create a strange atmosphere toward the opposite directions.
The dead, who appear as drops of water fall, dance to the music and enjoy the ball. It is to create a dynamic and pleasant image by breaking away from the negative image of death that appeared earlier.
Camille Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre
Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre" contains medieval European customs to overcome fear by describing death as a part of life and a universal phenomenon.
It is a humorous and grotesque expression of the dance performed by deep night skulls with the madness of romanticism.
In the space of death, water turns into vapor, filling the space thoroughly. Now we know life is valuable because there is an end. Following the flow from top to bottom, we recognize that death is natural. Due to the change in perception of death, fear and fear disappear. Facing true liberation through death, the souls finally return to a quiet state of nothing.
Richard Strauss, Tod und Verklärung IV. Moderato
Strauss' fourth movement of "Death and Transformation" is a song that depicts the state of nirvana unfolding after death, using string and brass. The fear of death and exhausting daily life all disappear, and the world of peaceful ideological utopia unfolds magnificently and quietly.
Video
Period: 07.2020 - 09.2020
Project Type: Group of 2
Project Contribution: Ideation, modeling, animating, rendering
