Ornamental Contrast

All the colors we recognize are created by innumerable wavelengths of light. For example, the leaves on trees absorb the red and blue from the sunlight and reflect only the green to deliver their color. Although a rather crude perspective, it is light that is the true source of color, and it is light and shadow that create the colorscape.
The work "Ornamental Contrast" explores the origin of the “beauty of contrast”, which we are
keenly aware of through the selection and composition of colors in our creative work. We wanted to explore, delve into and contemplate its origins, scoping out the contrast between light and dark, and researching the essence of the colorscape. It is also an experiment to explore the myriad contrasts of light and dark lying behind the colors that form various scenes, such as morning glow, sunset and splashing waves. To create the work, a paper-thin aluminum sheet was folded and painted with a matte paint that was mixed with sand to create countless highlights and shadows with a fine unevenness.
The title is inspired by ornamental plants, and the aims to create an "ornamental contrast" that adds power to the entire space.

Spread is a creative unit founded by Haruna Yamada and Hirokazu Kobayashi. It fuses the long-sighted environmental approach of landscape design with the vivid visual techniques of graphic design, incorporating environment, living creatures, objects, time, history, glyphs, and memory into their creative work as they strive to expand (“spread”) whatever subject they take on. By facing society and engaging in the act of creation, they have sought to change the present and create new experiences. Their projects use color as the primary medium, and by dismantling and rebuilding memory, we spread multidisciplinary creations to the future.