Summer Lee
Ocean Wave is a relaxing installation that provides sensory touch, sound and sight effects of the ocean waves. Four knitted textile panels made with two different yarns and colours are suspended to show an emulated ocean for viewers. Knitting and dyeing techniques have been used to show the possibilities of textile installation by using oversized needles. Ocean Wave provides a natural colour palette of blue and purple-ish colours; the panels have been dyed in these colours using the technique of tie-dye with food colouring. It provides a symphony of colour on the panels which looks like the refraction on the surface of the water. It is displayed between two walls and the floor, by stretching them in different points to show the form and structure which try to imitate the ocean waves. It is a healing art piece to cheer up the viewers who are working all day long as a touchable ocean.
