Unexpected Boxes 造梦空间

April 12, 2018 2018年4月12日
A behind-the-scenes look at how Unexpected Boxes was created.

Taiwanese artist Sydney Sie is a photographer and graphic designer who creates surreal, dream-like pictures that blur the line between imagination and reality. Using pastel colors and playful illusions, her work radiates a gentle feminine energy that eases viewers into each scene. Sie approaches every project like they’re her personal playgrounds, places where she can use candy-colored backdrops, mundane props, and familiar body parts to play games of hide-and-seek with the viewers.


来自台湾的谢昕妮(Sydney Sie)是一名摄影师,也是一名平面设计师。如果说要用一个词来概括她的作品,那或许就是:如梦似幻。

她的作品经常充斥着渐变的色彩、错位的视觉效果和柔软的女性气息。平凡的人物和场景,似乎统统隐匿在纯色背景之后,相片中呈现出来的只有经过筛选的景物,宛如置身真实与虚假的边界,并将其镶嵌到一个糖果色的故事气氛中去。

An image from Unexpectable Boxes
An image from Unexpectable Boxes

From the color usage to the methodical compositions, Sie’s experience as a graphic designer shines through in her photography work. But this intermingling of cross-medium concepts doesn’t end there. Having graduated with a degree in animation, influences from her major are also evident in her work – this is perhaps most apparent in her usage of close-up shots and attention to layering. Sie believes merging concepts from all three is what allows her to tell a complete story. In her eyes, photography should be more than just documenting reality – they’re opportunities to create something completely original and never before seen.


无论从色调还是构图的角度来看,Sydney 的作品都带有平面化的风格,那是因为平面设计出身的她,在研究所时期读了动画专业,所以她常用特写镜头,构图也更分解化。但 Sydney 觉得,这样反而更接近“完整呈现”,因为对她来说,摄影不仅仅是“记录”,更是“创造”。

A behind-the-scenes look at how Unexpected Boxes was created.
A behind-the-scenes look at how Unexpected Boxes was created.
A behind-the-scenes look at how Unexpected Boxes was created.

“I like to capture the surreal moments of ordinary life,” Sie tells us. “Rather relying on the pre-existing beauty of subject matters I’m capturing, I like to create unique settings and look at things from atypical perspectives.”

Each one of Sie’s projects is a window into the varied terrains of her active imagination, and this willingness to push the limits of her creative boundaries is what has captivated viewers again and again.


“我喜欢去捕捉现实生活中的超现实时刻……我喜欢去创造一个新的空间,或是新的构图,不依赖本来就很美好的东西。”但或许这就是 Sydney Sie 作品的魔力,让人在她创造的色彩梦境中,不断流连徜徉。

An image from Unexpectable Boxes
An image from Unexpectable Boxes
An image from Unexpectable Boxes
An image from Unexpectable Boxes
An image from Orange Requiem
An image from Orange Requiem
An image from Orange Requiem
An image from Orange Requiem
An image from Orange Requiem
An image from Orange Requiem

Website: www.sydneysie.com
Behance: ~/sydneysie
Instagram: @sydneysie
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Contributor: Chen Yuan


网站: www.ydneysie.com
Behance: ~/sydneysie
Instagram: @sydneysie
Vimeo: ~/sydneysie

 

供稿人: Chen Yuan