Fallen Star: wide-angle view of house cantilevered out, seven stories off the ground, with eucalyptus groves in the distance
Creator
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-) Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.) Suh, Do-Ho (South Korean sculptor and installation artist, born 1962)
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Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Description
Sculpture and Installations Architecture and City Planning Garden and Landscape Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star is the 18th permanent sculpture commissioned by UCSD’s Stuart Collection. It reflects Suh’s on-going exploration of themes around the idea of home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space. His own feelings of displacement when he arrived in the U.S. from Seoul, Korea in 1991 to study led him to measure spaces in order to establish relationships with his new surroundings. He had to physically and mentally readjust. Suh’s small “home” has perhaps been picked up by some mysterious force and appears to have landed or crashed onto the seventh floor of Jacobs Hall at the Jacobs School of Engineering. The roof garden is part of his design and the whole creates a space with panoramic views for small groups to gather and readjust. "The path leading to the house is made of 3/4 sized bricks and the Adirondack chairs are small ones. Everything is scaled down." - Mary Beebe, director of the Stuart Collection UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Jacobs School of Engineering: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States
Type
image
Format
Mixed media
Form/Genre
architecture (object genre) site-specific works landscape architecture sculpture (visual work) public art installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb54282503
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
American Wide-angle lenses Trees Dwellings Chimneys (architectural elements) Humor Cantilever construction Houses Gardens Contemporary Korean Landscape architecture Windows Roofs Roof gardens Eucalyptus Flower (plant material) UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering University of California, San Diego--History Architecture (object genre) Site-specific works Sculpture (visual work) Public art Installations (visual works)
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