Sarit Shani Hay fills Soft Landscape installation with animal cushions
Designer Sarit Shani Hay has created Soft Landscape, a sculptural installation of cushioned animals in coastal landscapes for the Design Museum Holon that draws on the architecture of the museum itself.
Tel Aviv-based Hay, who specialises in child-centric design, was commissioned to create the artwork for the Black Box exhibition, which displays pieces from the museum's own collections.
The site-specific Soft Landscape installation features an imaginary landscape with cushioned volumes to represent rocky coastlines, as well as the animals that live among them ? seals, bears and sea lions.
Above and top image: Soft Landscape depicts cushioned sea mammals in coastal landscapes
"I was interested in creating an imaginary playful natural landscape scene inhabited by soft cushioned animals that examines concepts such as home, refuge, climate and animals during the pandemic," Hay told Dezeen. "As a child-centric designer, specialised in creating objects and environments for children, I have become keenly interested in recent years in the therapeutic effects of time spent in nature has upon us, particularly on children, a feeling that has enhanced due to our life under the pandemic," she added.
The designer wanted to bring the outside in
The design of the landscapes, with their undulating shapes and striated patterns, was meant to evoke the architecture of the Design Museum Holon itself, which was designed by Ron Arad.
"I was interested in bringing the out...
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