GREEN WALL: Residential Project

THE SCULPTURE chosen for this project is called The Sea of Divine Madness, created by Jinggoy Buensuceso last 2018. It represents Earth as the divine planet containing primordial seas wherein the first evidence of life originated from its dark depths. This suggests the idea of human evolution dating back millions of years ago ancient species that emerged from the water and walked ashore as if it were an evolutionary baptism.

The color gold element present in this sculpture is formed similarly to how the lands of the earth look from afar. The artist also incorporates the concept of continental shift which allows terrains to take a different shape, in the same way, death gives way to new life. The color black element that serves as a circular background signifies nothingness and being; the color of the void that births manifold universes. Besides the colors of bright gold and dark black, other contrasting components are the hard and soft textures that indicate the dualism of life. Hardness is a representation of man-made objects, while softness is the animalistic and natural parts of humanity.

The meaning behind this aforementioned duality is the artist’s sense of peripeteia i e a sudden reversal of fortune, or change in circumstances Buensuceso believes in the dichotomy of existence that presents itself as beasts of order and chaos creation and destruction. This primordial pairing is a fundamental element of lived experience and two of the most basic subdivisions of Being itself (Peterson, 2018).

THE CONCEPT of peripeteia was directly derived from the theme of duality and contrast present in the sculpture previously discussed. The forms found in this green wall design proposal are heavily inspired by this very idea of the rise and fall of circumstances.

Beginning with the building material of the area where the sculpture is hung, these chevron veneer wood planks form patterns of decreasing and increasing slopes which signifies the reversal of fortune. Such angular lines are mimicked similarly on the arrangement of plants patterned within the green wall panels. These very panels themselves are also staggered to represent the ups and downs of life.

Clay bricks are paired with the green walls because red and green are complementary colors. Moreover, brick signifies order and hardness, while the plants on the other hand represent chaos and softness.