ETHEREAL

• Prize
  Honorable Mention in Innovation of the Year
• Company/Firm
  I Am Not David Lee Studio
• Designer
  David Lee
• Photo Credit
  Tsang Photography
• Location
  Singapore
• Project Date
  2022

You might identify Ethereal as a chair, but it was initially created as an art sculpture. They’re abstract, maybe a bit fragile to be used, and clearly not meant to be functional. But they could be.
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Who is responsible for defining their role? The creator or the spectator?

In other words, does function alone justify an object as “design” or does the reflection that went into creating the object also qualify it as design?

I created this series to question the line between design & art and the boundaries.

Bio
David Lee describes himself as a “jack-of-all-trades”. His works are
construction or creation from a diverse range of available materials.

He is the amateur plumber, carpenter, electrician - pretending to be a professional craftsman. A creative do-it-your-self artist, the craftsman deconstruct functional “stuff” from collected or recovered materials, which he recreate into different objects, giving them new perspective and uses.

Most importantly, the artist's experiments generate a new language that converse between death and reincarnation, but always in a fun way.

Other prizes
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