Area of Research: Interior Design
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As an interior designer, Julia Gray Hines is interested in what she calls the “push pull” between natural and manmade creative forces. She approaches nature with the wonder of a child and the respect of an adult, tempered by her understanding of the threat that the building industry poses towards it. In that vein, Hines’ has created a work that will be part of a larger series of interactive light fixtures that deals with these conflicts. Specifically, the designer is inspired by the beautiful and fragile form of the insect chrysalis, which despite its seemingly vulnerable and passive nature has many defense mechanisms that allow it to respond to external threats. Using motion-sensor technology, Hines’s light fixture will generate a similar type of response when viewers approach it. The artist hopes that this moment of surprise not only rewards the viewer’s inquisitiveness, but also emphasizes the threat that humanity often represents to nature. Hines’ chrysalis embodies not only man’s creative powers but the fragility of nature and man’s affect upon it.
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Studio Wall with Studies for Chrysalis, 2012
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