Golden A' Design Award Winner 2023
Kevin Chu's TCLGreen Sustainable Art Installation commands the visual field through a masterful integration of vertical sculptural elements against a dramatic alpine landscape, where dozens of slender, blade-like forms in oxidized verdigris and teal hues rise from an undulating meadow in rhythmic procession, their surfaces catching and refracting brilliant mountain sunlight while simultaneously echoing the chromatic temperature of distant glacial peaks rendered in luminous titanium white and raw umber earth tones. The compositional architecture employs a sophisticated layering system wherein the foreground presents a mirror-still body of water functioning as both literal and metaphorical threshold, its reflective surface doubling the installation and surrounding terrain in near-perfect bilateral symmetry along the horizontal axis, creating a visual dialogue between earthly and celestial realms. The middle ground activates through human and animal presence, a figure in neutral tones and a cream-colored bovine establishing intimate scale relationships that render the sculptural intervention both monumental and approachable. The chromatic palette orchestrates a harmonious dialogue between the cool cerulean and cobalt of the expansive sky, the warm ochre and sienna of sun-touched grasses, and the distinctive patinated green of the installation elements themselves, suggesting copper or bronze oxidation that speaks to material transformation and temporal passage. Atmospheric perspective operates with classical precision as the massive limestone escarpment dominates the background, its craggy vertical faces catching raking lateral illumination that models every geological fold and fracture with sculptural clarity. The celestial addition of a gibbous moon in the upper register introduces cosmological dimension, while lens flares from the brilliant sun source create prismatic rainbow artifacts that celebrate rather than obscure the photographic capture. Edge behaviors range from the crisp definition of sculptural silhouettes against sky to the soft dissolution of distant mountain contours into atmospheric haze, demonstrating sophisticated understanding of focus and depth orchestration.
TCLGreen is a modular Grass inspired Art installation and can be adapted to any location. Recycled from over 3000 discarded computer circuit boards and illuminated at night entirely by the power of the sun. With a special bioluminescent coating that glows in the dark by absorbing both natural and artificial photons, it illuminates even without electricity. An included Artificial Intelligence system is embedded into the totems where the installation can "talk" to anyone organically. A special Metaverse Immersion is included once VR/AR goggles are worn.