What interested me the most was that most of the masks were exaggeratedly elongated, which makes me wonder how people dance in them without getting tired (or they do?). The elongated parts are either human figures, animals or even insects.
Month: February 2017
Single to Multiple: Time Archive Book
Book Name:
四面八方 – 我想回去的那個地方
This is Where I’d Rather Be
All the photos are taken by me, some are edited with Photoshop.
This book is basically a documentary of how my mind jumped from one point to another around the topic “time”.
—————————————————————————————————–
I think of death as soon as I hear the word time. Time brings me to my death. Time is future, I don’t know my future, I don’t know when I’ll die!
I love traveling around the world but I also love to feel belonged. Being a person who did not grow up in her hometown and is now living in a completely foreign country, I feel worried sometimes. I am worried that I will die in a place where I don’t belong.
But where do I belong? My hometown? Where I grew up in? I love them as much as each other I don’t know if it will ever be possible for me to choose between them.
My mind then jumped to my dog, who will be more than ten years old when I finish college. I become worried again. Worried that I’ll not be around him when it’s his time to go.
Then something hit me. I want to be there for my dog when he dies because we love each other. Maybe that is exactly what I need.
In the last pages of my book, I said:
“So when time finally brings me to my end….
wherever my loved ones are, that’s where I’d rather be.”
[SEM 2] Simultaneous Perception and Observation at Grand Central Station
I entered the Grand Central Station from the lower level (Dinning level). There were a lot of people eating, of course. The air was sour (basically a heavy mixture of the smell of different foods) and somehow humid and sticky. Since there were many restaurants, it felt very crowded.
I focused more on sounds because standing still in an environment without headphones, you can hear everything, you just don’t notice and recognize each and every one of them. On the contrary, you cannot see everything, something will always be in front of something else therefore you will not be able to see that ‘something else’.
Being in a place like Grand Central Station, you hear people talking everywhere. However all those voices just fuse together into something difficult to describe. It sounds like a group of bees flying, but less unified. You get these recognizable voices occasionally – like the sound of someone dropping a phone on to the floor, or the cashier looking through a pile of coins, or an unhappy child shouting… As I listened to these sounds, I think of the combination of people’s voices as a cloud swirling mildly in the sky, and those ‘occasionally recognizable sounds’ are like tiny lightnings sparkling in the cloud.
When I walked up the stairs to the ground level, though I’ve been there many times, I was overwhelmed by the space. It reminded me of how crowded downstairs. Perhaps it was because of the height of the ceiling. The ceiling in the dinning level downstairs was low, giving me a sense of being trapped in a box, which I did not realize until I got to the ground level, where the ceiling is so high.
That ‘cloud’ of mixed voices was still there for sure, but much softer and less annoying. There was this very thin smell of coffee. Honestly it was so thin I cannot even be sure if it was coffee. I assume so because I saw many people with a cup of coffee in their hands.
People were all moving in different directions, I thought as I observed.
Then I took a picture with a 4 seconds exposure. I was surprised to see how many people were not moving at all but just standing there.
If a person is moving, he/she would appear blurry in the photograph, however I saw many sharp figures in the photo. I observed again and finally recognized those people. Many were just standing to take pictures, some were lost looking at maps on their phones, some just came in to take a break from a long walk in the freezing weather.
I wondered how I could not see that at first.
THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN RESEARCHED:
- LIGHTING – I took a look around and realized there weren’t much lighting. The biggest chandeliers were on the far edge of the area. Though there were huge windows letting in natural light, the space was still very dim. I believe the lighting was set to be dim to match the style of the building. However it was still bright enough for people to read.
- POSITION TO PLACE TICKET BOOTHS
- WHY PUT DINNING AREA ON THE LOWER LEVEL