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GLIESE 504b / Pink Space / Flow Festival 2019

Pink Space is a space that embodies celebration of diversityand where anyone can come as they are. The space has a message that is needed, no matter how obvious it may sound: everywhere is need for deeper understanding of the diversity of bodies, genders, sexuality and equality. The cultural evolution of the colour pink has liberated the colour to be used creatively. No longer are we forced to think that pink colour is meant for one certain type of people only.  

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Pink colour is a mirror of social and cultural values in its dualism of feminine/masculine, cheap/expensive, classy/trashy. Pink colour is often perceived in relation to gender or sexual orientation, but pink spaces are an exception, as research shows. Pink colour is said to evoke more feelings than any other colour and this is why Pink Space is an important space of feel-good moments and seeing diversity in all its forms and for taking people as they are. 

I approached the subject from an astronomical point of view and based my work in Nasa's Mars program. I wanted to model the different parts and elements of the Mars program and tie them together by presenting them through the subject of 'pink'. Pink aesthetics are wrapped around actual information about the on going planetary research: the Gliese rover is modeled by Curiosity and Gliese 504b is a real exoplanet in the system of the solar analog
 
59 Virginis (GJ 504) and is also referred as the 'pink planet'.


In the work, I focused in modeling and animation of objects that contained multiple parts. I used Moi3D and ZBrush for the modeling and sculpting and Blender for the animation and rendering. 

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