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At SOA Arts, we not only sell artwork for interior design spaces, but we want to help inspire you to create as well.

The interior design world is vast and there are many spaces to design. It can be challenging to start from scratch, and taking inspiration from others is a great way to craft your own ideas. From hotels to home offices and everything in between, there are designers who created immaculate spaces. Let’s look at 5 interior designers and their work in different areas.

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Interior  Design Ideas for Hotels

Peter Pichler

Instagram imge:Schgaguler Hotel

Located in Southern Italy, the 42-room Hotel Schgagular is a minimalist’s dream. With sleek, modern and urban accents and a grayscale backdrop, anyone can feel relaxed here. This is designer Peter Pichler’s first hotel, and the entire design gives a calming sensation to visitors. Everything is designed simply with sustainability in mind. Minimalism is great for hotels to not cause any distraction to visitors and immerse themselves in relaxation and calm color schemes.

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Interior Design Ideas for Restaurant

Karen Herold

Instagram image: Girl & The Goat

Even if the food is fantastic, the style and décor of a restaurant can make or break the experience. In 2010, Girl & The Goat, one of Chicago’s hottest restaurants opened. Not only is it known for the food created by Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard, the space is known for having incredible ambiance. Izard told the Chicago Tribune the area was “rustic with a bit of badass,” which is all thanks to Karen Herold. In an interview with the Eater, Herold states that her philosophy is “that a dining room should feel like an extension of the chef and her cooking style.”

She currently owns her own firm, Studio K and has worked on some of Chicago’s most stylish restaurants, such as Maple & Ash. The spaces have a modern and classy feel with rustic features making them the perfect setting for a night out in Chicago.

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Interior Design Ideas for House/Villa

David Jameson

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Architect David Jameson created the “Vapor House” in Bethesda Maryland. He got the idea after a tree fell on his home. This design goes to show that sometimes recreating the memory isn’t as important as making a new one. Jameson used his memories to create a beautiful modern home that can be an inspiration to other designers. The house has floor-to-ceiling windows and stainless steel on the outside. Everything on the house is custom and has a modern but nostalgic feel.

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Interior Design Ideas for Home Office

Jessie Carrier and Mara Miller

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Jessie Carrier and Mara Miller are not just one designer but a duo. They are husband and wife and work together to create beautiful interior designs. They specialize in home décor and have been known to create incredible office spaces. With more people working from home today, you’ve got to get creative with your home office space. These two are all about repurposing things you already have to make a space feel new, such as turning a dining room into a home office.

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Interior Design Ideas for Exhibition

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Exhibition spaces can be challenging to create. You are starting from scratch, typically in an empty warehouse or other vacant space and have to use your vision to get you there. In Australia, architecture studio Youssofzay + Hart has created an exhibition space using repurposed materials from hardware stores, going back to using repurposing as a design technique. An exhibition space needs to be equipped to hold several artists, so it comes top to keep the room neutral while also stylish.

The hardware store pieces are used to separate areas into neutral-looking rooms that artists can fill with their work. It matters for the space not to be too distracting to take away from the art itself. This setup is great inspiration for other designers who need to create an exhibition space.

Conclusion

To sum it up, there are many interior designers doing incredible things with spaces in and out of the home. If you’re stumped, you can always look to other designers for inspiration for your own designs. A key theme seen in modern interior design is repurposing other items into a new design, such as for a home office. You may be turning a dining room into an office, but if you look at the room creatively, you just may find you have all the tools you need right there.

At SOA Arts, we provide artwork to aid interior designers in their projects. You can check out the rest of our website for inspiration for your next design project in any space. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us through our website, as well.

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On this page, we’ll explore interior design ideas for living room spaces and much more. We’ll be harnessing the power of geometric shapes to create rooms with impact. We’ve curated a list of simple, attractive ideas that you can use in your own spaces.

Finding interior design ideas for home spaces can be tricky if you don’t know where to start. The suggestions below are designed to spark your creativity and get you thinking like a true designer! Read on to learn more.

Interior Design Ideas 2021

London restaurant Little Kolkata designed by Meddhi Larouci.

Geometric elements in clothing, architecture, visual, interior and other design fields play an unmatchable role. It can extend space and condense corners. Lines, triangles, circles, squares, polygons, and irregularities form a mysterious and interesting world.

We recommend using these ideas as ‘jumping off’ points. If you think something else might work better for your home, don’t hesitate to give it a go! Right, let’s get into it!

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Geometric Patterns in Furniture

Designer Kelly Wellesley uses a corner bookcase in her West Hollywood home.

The shapes, lines, and patterns you feature in your interiors can have a huge impact on how they feel. Check out the image above. Notice the linework in both the lamp and lower cupboard. They immediately catch the eye and create a striking image.

The use of repeating, rectangular tiles on the wall behind is also worth noting. Pay attention to how they match the square artwork that’s hanging in the room. Interior design ideas for living room spaces don’t get much better than this!

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Striking Geometric Modern Artworks

DE STIJL, 1917 Style school

A movement that began in the Netherlands as a reaction to the Art Deco boom, based on geometric shapes and primary colors.

If you’re using geometric shapes as a theme in your interior design, the modern art era is packed full to the brim with fantastic pieces that could compliment your other choices. Take the image above, for example.

These bold, tessellating shapes will look right at home among the rest of your geometric paradise. If you’ve got the budget, you could search for an original near you. Looking for prints or specially commissioned work? We may be able to help.

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Harmony in Disharmony with Geometric Decor

From Tony textiles to floor tiles with delicate surfaces, today's modern geodesign brings bold graphic styles.

Wallpaper: Pierre Frey, Arte. Fabrics: Madeaux, Romo, osbourne & little, Cowtan&Tout.

Capiz shell pendant from Serena&Lily; Hexagonal table from Worlds Away.

When first starting out in the world of interior design, most people learn to keep things simple. The lesson is often to avoid clashing patterns and colors wherever possible. However, when your theme is geometric shapes, you may have more room to experiment.

Take the image above, for instance. When viewed in isolation, the patterns, colors, and shapes in this room could be considered as ‘clashing’. However, their use of bold geometry and repeated shapes mean that the whole room simply sings!

They’re unified by their bold use of repeated shapes.

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Geometric Shapes and Patterns in Background Wall

Different geometric shapes and forms are used on the wall with bold colors so that the whole space is full of style. Combining polygon color blocks of different shades can create a naked-eye 3D three-dimensional effect.

The background wall with geometric elements not only stretches the space, but also embellishes the corners. The extension and repetition of the geometry make the corners so extraordinary.

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Geometric Decorative Items

Of geometrical shape hang a picture, craft places piece, and small bookshelf is a treasured trick to adorn space. It can be echoed with other Furniture full of lines through lines.

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Geometric Luminaires

The geometric lamps and lanterns with lines are the ace that builds a dimensional atmosphere. Angular new-style lights and lanterns such as the diamond pendant lamp that hangs upside down, polygon iron art pendant lamp, combination musical instrument pendant lamp and so on, can add eye-feast vision to the space.

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Carpet with Geometric Shapes and Forms

Carpet is the thing that can reflect chic most in household space, the geometrical element that has tension extremely is united in wedlock integral match color, let dimensional appearance level up.

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Framing Techniques with Geometric Shapes and Forms

The geometric carpet echoes designer Katie Ridder's wall art image in a room.

No matter what approach you’re taking with your interior design ideas in 2021, some of the classic techniques can serve you well. Pay attention to the image above. Note how the stunning wardrobe has been framed by the prints that are hanging along its perimeter.

This immediately draws the viewer’s eye to the statement piece of furniture in the room. Another brilliant touch is the complementary shapes that can be found in both the green carpet and the repeating artwork prints.

Sourcing wholesale art is one of our specialties at SOA Arts. We can help designers, business owners, and individual collectors find the pieces they’re looking for. Check us out.

Final Thoughts

While suggestion pages like this one can certainly be helpful, it’s important to remember that they’re just one piece of the interior design puzzle. Don’t forget to trust your gut too when working.

Does it excite you and feel like the right decision? It’s probably worth exploring further. The more avenues you explore, the better your instincts will become. Practice makes perfect after all!

Whenever you’re feeling stuck, SOA Arts are ready and waiting to help. For all your interior design, wholesale art, and art print needs, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

All images via Google.

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HOMI is a renowned exhibition dedicated to decorative objects, accessories, decorations, tableware, textiles, essences, and perfumes that characterize contemporary living spaces and the latest living scenarios.

HOMI is the home, updated, synonymous with style, and telling of the latest lifestyle trends. Twice a year, it takes place in Milan (Italy) the home of design.

More than a lounge, Maison&Objet is the center of attention of every professional. Design, fashion, home, decoration objects, arts. The fair explores every decorative universe and style: to renew ideas or change them, inspire them, and create your own universe. Natural decoration, creation, design reference, a mosaic of trends, new talents, and new concepts. Maison & Objet offers another look, another atmosphere: an offer of high added value!

MAISON&OBJET Paris was strongly characterized by three thematic areas.

The first is MAISON, which is the house and its wide range of interior decorations, organized in different worlds.

The second is OBJET, which focuses on the product: a helpful concept store for retailers is organized every year.

Finally, there are INFLUENCES. As the name suggests, the format focuses on market trends, and the original display form was created to facilitate communication and the discovery of new products.

01 Regeneration for Ceramic.

Following the theme of the (re) generation.

Different reflections and creations of a generation determined to change and overturn the codes as much as possible are highlighted.

Ceramic jars that reproduce a classic style, the effect of the finishes that imitate the used effect, but written contemporary messages that fit with modern kitchens and all ages of customers.

Pastel colors that underlie the idea of past times, simulating vintage products from the granny kitchen.

Hybrid collection: magical paintings for an original and colorful table. The iridescent colored motifs boldly mix traditional decorative elements inspired on one side by the West and on the other by the East.

The contrast of the motifs is accompanied by the contrast of shapes.

The union between past and present, between East and West: an exuberant mix between tradition and modernity!

Bone China PORCELAIN

Handcrafted pieces in stoneware with a unique multi-colored glaze. The aesthetics of a decorated dinner table setting are empowered by the cozy harmony of calm colors. Shapes strongly show the handmade identity and are decorated not in a cold industrial way.

Plates with unconventional borders, irregular geometries, more natural effect: at first sight, they give an impression of something made by hand from a pottery artisan. Irregularity is a plus, not a defect: naturality and humanity.

Bowls: suitable for all the places of the home, kitchen, living room, bathroom, etc.

In fact, they could contain plants, biscuits, or bread, or be used for serving soups, maybe without nothing, just to create a decorative corner between books on shelves, or placed on the bedside table as an occasion for putting inside jewels and watches before seeping.

FLEXIBILITY with SIMPLICITY.

ARTWORKS translated for DAILY LIFE.

Each handcrafted vase challenges the balance between soft and cohesive forms, playing with human silhouettes in contrast to the architectural components of the building.

The ideal pieces for an artistic and authentic aura at home.

ECLECTIC SURFACES.

The collection is inspired by the European avant-garde movement created after the Second World War and expresses the spontaneity of the gesture, the work on the material, and the collective creation.

This vase challenges the balance between soft and playful shapes.

02 Earth Tone for Ceramic

FROM NATURETONATURE

From the colors of the earth and the materials themselves, everything is tinged with its shades in a warm embrace, a welcoming, reassuring nest. Hues of browns and terracotta were rediscovered in the research of a wild nature in the genuine world for a basic living. Earth is our nutrient for us to live a healthy life in a calm and healthy ambiance.

Key elements： Organic Shapes/Simplicity/PurenessOf Lines/ Few Colors Combination/ Sustainable Materials/OneColor

Brown and terracotta pigments create an incredibly grounding and stabilising decorating scheme. They help us reconnect with nature, bringing us back down to earth when we're craving stability.

Terracotta is taking over the interior design with its rich, earthy, red, and brown tones that are easy to incorporate into wardrobes and interior features.

From scorched earth to pink terracotta to hazelnut.

Bringing nature indoors: the earthy shades, "the earth palette", perfectly meet this need.

This trend describes the growing concerns related to sustainability, the desire to reconnect with wilderness, the search for authenticity, and even the expression of more sobriety in consumption.

KEY ELEMENTS: organic shapes / one color

03 Colorful Matching for Ceramic

SPRAYINGJOY

After these months of stressful and frightening waits, the need of joy and return to life with reborn enthusiasm is really.

We notice new confidence in colors: colorful wallpaper, patterns, textiles, as ceramic products and glassware, decorative items emerge with strong frequency.

Surreal splashes of color: ironic and bold colors for a FEEL-GOOD home and for the shared places.

Hues in pastels for more dreaming and playful return to childhood intimacy, a romantic touch easy to combine with earth or grey tones, to the whites or the darkest elements.

One of the color trends I've seen dominating designs in these just finished fairs are saturated, juicy colors paired with much paler hues in the background to make the intense colors pop. After a challenging year like this one, people are craving positivity, so designers are giving us the cheerful, vivacious corals, magentas, and oranges we need right now. These deliciously juicy and rich colors have a rejuvenating and uplifting effect. They are warm, but not hot. Refreshing, not brash.

And the combination of pale pinks and creamy tones creates an intriguing contrast that just works.

In some designs, the pale background is as important as the focal color, grounding it and making pop.

These designs make a statement by coloring objects in colors they normally aren't. The goal here is to be playful and create escapist landscapes where people can find a few moments of solace away from the challenging reality.

Use colors in unexpected, even surreal ways to create dream-like images.

Bold proposals

The color matches represent a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting.

A color palette for the bold and determined that makes us want to bring about positive change, even placed on a table or on the shelves, even as a gift as a message of a return to joy.

KEY ELEMENTS

Think harmony, not dissonance.
Soft colors or bold, strong and pop.
Smooth surfaces or textured with decorations that enrich the monochrome object.

04 Eternal Black for Ceramic

DARK ATTITUDE

Black is still one of the trends of this period and is supposed to remain. Even if here in Italy and Europe in general, black in our imagination is matched to negative feelings, to darkness, to sadness, black is without any doubt one of the most elegant colors, for fashion but for interior design as well.

Black and dark tones are relevant, from cabinets to sinks, paint, and countertops, ranging from living rooms, bathroom accessories, bedroom or freestanding kitchens, etc...

Advice: Remember to include contrasting colors (a pattern, a detail or with a bold border), natural and light hues or strongly colorful, according to the researched effect.

Black is chic, elegant, and (barely) never goes out of style. It looks great as a small-scale accent or as a large focal point in the room, and so on the tables.

TOTAL BLACK or repetitive forms and graphics contrasting with bright creme hues.

Obsessive motifs, quite hypnotic, or minimal touches of color.

Black consent to pay attention to shapes and volumes: is growing the attitude of a view of vases sculptures or statement objects.

Vases that are a result of exploration of new organic, biomorphic shapes inspired by the movement of natural elements, of the material itself, of the gestures needed in the realization process.

Everything is changing, and the big ceramics show it with their unexpected presence.

KEY ELEMENTS

Textured and satin/ matte finishes

05 New Lightness for Ceramic

Products that boast very delicate, light, and organic shapes. Products that have soft colors, a lot of white, and are even see-through. The idea of reflecting light, not taking up a lot of visual space, and giving a relaxing, calming feel dominates this trend.

Sometimes just a little decor, a thin golden border underlines the sensation of levity, a thinner thickness lets the users feel delicacy as the idea of preciosity, just in touching and lifting up the products.

06 SUSTAINABLE. GREEN HOME for CERAMIC

CASE STUDY

TERA vases for indoor or outdoor living
Material: 100% recyclable - recycled plastic
An evident example of how precious and trendy could be a product even if made reusing waste materials.

RECYCLE | RETHINK | REBORN: to give plastic a second life.

KEY ELEMENTS
ETHICAL APPROACH - DESIGN
INNOVATION

I know I'm often repeating myself in recent months, but the ever-growing trend with an evident presence on the market is precisely the one that relates to the concept of nature and sustainability.

A macro trend that blends into every other trend, ethically necessary and inevitable by now.

This need to redesign and review spaces and objects of everyday life is expressed in the global return to the human and primordial aspect.

The creation of a mindful home is becoming increasingly important.

Bringing the experience of nature into products with greater attention to detail, carefully selected materials, and authentic functions that whet the appetites for natural living.

Mindful and thoughtful home.

MASS TREND

Ceramic translates well the experience of nature into the home. Ceramic tableware (material from the earth) combines the idea of healthy food that has to be present and contained.

This design theme feels completely natural. The colors and the alternative - often sustainably produced - materials literally bring natural spaces to life.

Customers carefully curate what they allow to move in with them today. They pay more detailed attention to the little things.

STATEMENT: We opt for authenticity rather than high gloss design.

ADVICE
Recycled ceramics and porcelain and products made using sustainable production methods: everything is communicated by the brand because it is a note of added value and preciousness.

It's communicated through communication channels (adv, website, leaflets) and more than often on the same product and related packaging.
The colors, the final glazes are certified for naturalness and absence of toxicity.

The materials and finishes simulate a vintage, used look, as if of natural corrosion and deterioration due to use and exposure to atmospheric agents. In some cases, they look like a continuum of the ground.

Products that go well with indoor and outdoor environments.

07 Line Decor for Ceramic

Line drawings made with a skillful lightness of touch, most of the time consisting of a single sweeping stroke or a few delicate lines, are currently to be seen everywhere in interior design.

Line art: the perfect curve.

I am convinced that this trend line can show its true potential even more strongly with values of awareness, creativity and freedom.

HIGH POTENTIAL trend

Just a few lines are needed to create a complete picture. Line art radiates optimism. The cultivated stylistic elements of line art fit perfectly with our present time.

08 Leisure Live 

Leisure means well-being.

A need for a calming atmosphere to suit the "TO BE HOME" theme. Small, essential objects, benches and cushions, cozy soft materials--minimally furnish a meditation room.

A selection of textile lamps that warm up the ambiance or a little corner.

This approach highlights the return to life through a selection of soft elements with organic shapes.

The theme, which had started even before the pandemic, is in total resonance with what we're experiencing. Furniture more and more presents the internal nature of the home, its pleasant character.

The soft and calm atmosphere given thanks to unique objects, chosen in research of good combination between organic shapes, good materials, warm colors.

The home nowadays has to be more cocooning, a place where experience the good of life, alone, in a family or even when we have to stay in and work.

HIGH- POTENTIAL TREND

Products today need to have a deeper meaning, thus having a sustainable purpose and nod to general well-being.

Colors don't fight with our eyes: dark earth tones, pale pinks, mostly desaturated greens and blues.

09 Green Color for Ceramic

The green color is, without a doubt, a symbol of a new beginning. This color aims to revive, restore and renew.

Today we look at these hues not only as a color but as an ideal element of reconnection with nature and the wishes of the great outdoors.

STILL GROWING and with the HIGH POTENTIAL trend.

New declinations of greens: from muted mints, soft sage, pistachio, to earthier olive green.

PURPOSE: a fresh and renewed start after a worrying year.

KEY ELEMENTS

This is the reason because it can reach all range of customers and never tire them.

10 New Romantic for Ceramic

The new romance comes to the interior design trend.
Translucent colored florals with a romantic touch are key to this trend.
Faded vintage rose prints and ice-cool colors give a fresh new look, even on a plate.

KEY ELEMENTS

You can select smaller elements of the romantic interior design trend or make a complete collection.

The trend will work with the existing decor, so customers will love this emerging and growing trend. Expected to become a MASS trend.

11 WALL DECOR Trends

PRODUCTTREND

WALL DECOR & INTERIOR ARTS

Brilliant and original, the Neon Art line allows you to personalize the walls with luminous messages. The game can count on multiple solutions, thanks to the availability of choice between collections of shaped applique in the shape of letters of the alphabet, quotes, graphics suitable for any indoor environment.

HIGH POTENTIAL trend

Baden creates decorative items for the home: all products are handmade. The unique coloring gives the articles their recognition value.

MATERIALS: felt wool, wood, metal

Modern African Collection was inspired by the great tradition of African masks and the inherent lack of realism.

A handmade decorative wooden mask inspired by colors, patterns, and grids, ideal on an office wall, living room or in the kids' room.

MATERIALS: Made from a combination of different materials such as Veneer, MDE, Formica, Perspex, Plastic, and Felt and are all colored with quality Molotow" Premium colors.

SHAPE TREND

EXTRA CURVES

Items that have curves.

The era of razor-edged design is giving way to soft lines and feminine curves.

Maybe it's a desire to surround ourselves with more elemental shapes and forms in a world increasingly disconnected from nature.

The preponderance of softer lines and rounded edges in everything from furniture to architecture is a hard fact right now. It's also a welcome one after years of ultra-sleek lighting, industrial-style interiors and macho super -buildings.

Here the smaller products generously appropriate this style.

HIGH-POTENTIAL trend

All screenshots via AIYUANWU.

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Born in Hong Kong in 1960, Johnson Tsang specializes in modern and contemporary art. He’s always been fond of ceramics and sculptures, playing with the idea of texture and human emotions. He wasn’t an artist early in his life though. Tsang had to take care of himself growing up without much parenting. His mother left when he was just a few years old. His father was in and out of drug usage. Tsang jumped around odd jobs until he decided to train as a police officer.

During his early time as an officer, Tsan visited the Hong Kong Arts Center where he found breathtaking inspiration to pursue art. “I entered a world that truly belonged to me”, he said. He began to shape works of art with his hands as he applied issues with society and human emotion.

A Dish of Future

This work done in 2006 expresses the untold truth of society here on Earth. Two hands with a fork and knife in each hand digging into a dish you’ve never seen before. On the plate is a meal that looks like the Earth with a fetus inside.

The tragic message is that humans are rapidly depleting our planet for our own good from each generation. Humans leave the next generation with a whole new set of issues to deal with instead of setting them up for success. It’s tragic, yet a genius perspective to the future made in a dish.

Still in One Piece III

This piece is a perfect expression of how Tsang reflects on the obstacles of society. A symbol for the COVID-19 pandemic has been the masks that billions of people use today to prevent spreading. Tsang created a delicate sculpture where two masks are shaped into faces. The intertwined face masks are locked in a kiss with noses and lips that look like humans.

It represents how people feel today. Distancing and isolation were emphasized during the pandemic, but humans still crave love and affection. As a kiss represents love, the masks separate us even if it is in our best interest to prevent the virus from spreading.

Lucid Dream II Series

Lucid Dream II_Work in Progress

Tsang is best known for his face-shaped sculptures that display an array of emotions. In the Lucid Dream II Series, Tsang uses clay to create multiple human faces that appear twisted, contorted, and literally bend the mind. He focuses on human subconsciousness and experiments like people have never seen before.

Lucid Dream II_Here and There

Lucid Dream II_Here and There (Detail)

Here and There, for example, features a human face with the eyes closed in a resting expression. Half of the face is human, while the other half appears as a crumbling building. The face is three-dimensional with gaping holes and debris. It looks like the building is going through major demolition. Just as people appear to be in peace, they may be torn down on the inside with nobody knowing.

Lawful Custody is another instance where Tsang combines realistic facial sculptures with his surrealist imagination. This sculpture looks like a broken shell with a human face on the inside. The face is at a similar resting position like Here and There is. The face is behind bars and could represent a number of powerful messages here. Is it a clever way of showing that people are limited by their own subconscious? Or could it be the fact that people lock away their genuine emotions?

Lucid Dream II_Lawful Custody

Lucid Dream II_Just Listen

Lucid Dream II – Extrication

Lucid Dream II_Falling in Love

Lucid Dream II_Mirror Mirror

Lucid Dream II_Remembrance

Lucid Dream II – Under the Skin

All images via Johnson Tsang.

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