Located within the picturesque landscape of Hampstead heath, a Jewel box reveals itself as a container of the precious Francois Pinault collection. My project is about establishing a new way of perceiving contemporary art in a domestic space.
“It(kaleidoscope) contains a slit through which we can look into the real world, and allows us to watch how messy environment is transformed into a thing of lawful beauty by multiple mirrors inside the tube. (...) we look into a realm of simple order, which can probe with ease.”
- EH. Gombrich on the kaleidoscopic effect
By exploring the relationship between the observer and the idea of framing in contemporary art and architecture, my proposal references E.H Gombrich’s idea of the kaleidoscope as a starting point for the re-introduction of focal centrality. Through an array of reflection, repetition and fragmentation, this new kaleidoscopic system of ornaments becomes the platform that frames and encapsulates Art and Architecture into a total work of art.