AUTUMN DE WILDE

Autumn de Wilde, 'Escalade' for Cadillac, 2014

Autumn de Wilde, 'Escalade' for Cadillac, 2014

Autumn de Wilde, 'Escalade' for Cadillac, 2014

Childish Gambino, 2013 (left)

Beck, 2002 (right)

250 WORD REFLECTION | AUTUMN DE WILDE

Autumn de Wilde is an American photographer that works largely in a commercial capacity, photographing and videoing musicians. However, contrary to her usual style, de Wilde was commissioned in 2014 to create a landscape for an advertisement for Cadillac which I have largely directed my discussion towards. The huts are constructed from mirror and coloured plexiglass so that they project onto and reflect the landscape when the light shines at them. Thus, with help from the mirrors, parts of the constructions seem to melt into their surroundings whilst also casting the dry landscape in shades of red, yellow and green through the plexiglass. She states, “I designed the sculptures so that they would interact and transform with the landscape as the sun rose, passed over us and set” (2014). I’ve always had a love of the natural world so I think this work resonated with me because De Wilde has used the landscape as a component of the artwork rather than just as a location or backdrop. The materials De Wilde has chosen utilise the elements of light, colour and space really effectively. Natural light is used to project the different coloured glass across the landscape and space is employed to add expanse to the work. I was also drawn to her work this week as we have been looking at how to use colours in different ways and shapes so to create our A3 colour works.

Foiret, C 2017, Lighting, Layers and Reflections by Autumn de Wilde, Trendland, 15 March, <http://trendland.com/lighting-layers-reflections-by-autumn-de-wilde/>, viewed 17 March 2017

Leoncio, E 2014, Lighting, Layers and Reflections by Autumn de Wilde, Yellow Trace, 11 March, <http://www.yellowtrace.com.au/autumn-de-wilde-for-cadillac/>, viewed 17 March 2017