Idea:
In the beginning, I had no idea what I should be doing. I had no creative and inspirations for this project at all. I just walked around the neighborhood and took some photos of the neighborhood. I didn’t like the photos I took because I want the story to be absurd and abstract. However, the images are too literal. Later, Freya suggested narrowing my idea down to nostalgia.
Brainstorming:
I start to think about what I am nostalgic about. I figured I was a very nostalgic person I was younger. Those days, I always collected my erasers and never threw them out. Are people nostalgic about items or the memories those items bring? I think it was the memory that people miss, including both good and bad memories. All those memories could not be forgotten because they have already become part of yourself.
Outcome:
I decide to use the eraser as an item/symbol of nostalgia. It erases many things we have written down, but those memories could not be erased. I decide to target a specific mental disorder-bipolar. Usually, people who have experienced mental disorder will recognize the fact that the sick period was horrible for their health. However, strangely, many inevitably miss the time when they were not mentally stable because they feel a sense of power and craziness that can’t be found elsewhere. These nostalgic people are continually walking in the zone between their sanity and insanity. The video at the end wants to show that no matter what you have experienced in the past, recognize that memory is part of you bur is also a superpower that makes you unique. No-one is absolutely strong so it’s okay to be a little fragile.
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