This is a story about making peace. The two characters’ encounter is unexpected from the beginning; and on intersections between them, the destiny of their joining is inevitable. The scenario starts with the man entering the picture; he has fun in his world of joy. Later the woman on the right of the picture likewise joins in this place. They have not found out each other’s existence yet. Suddenly, they start to recognize something, and they look at each other. The childish way of thinking makes both of them misunderstand their purposes of playing in this place; they thought they are going to contend the playground. Unavoidably, fights break out between them. Their hearts have wounded by each other, and they have lost the colors and passion. Both of them soon realize, they have to compromise with each other and keep their faiths in the playmate that stands in front of them. Eventually, they reach out to each other with sharing the last balloon and make peace with each other.
The subject that I most portrait in this series is the process of contacting. I choose to shoot this photo because I want to continue with exploring with familiar methods that I used to have. The project is base on a usual genre of modern photography, and they’re thoughtfully set up and planned in this typical way. I have used the categories of Action-to-Action, Subject-to-Subject, and Moment-to-Moment; these are the most important elements that consist my visual image. The positioning and costumes construct a surreal world within the frames. Particularly in this piece, the color leads a different role of projecting two characters’ state of mind. When the two characters are enjoying their world, their bodies are colorful and saturated; once after they have hurt each other, the color fades away, and everything goes completely black and white. Later in scenes they go back to each other and start over, color appears at the moment they hug each other, it is the time that the open their heart to each other. When the series comes to actual photographs, I choose to make a booklet that contains all of them in order to maintain the continuity and unity as an individual story. I want my pages to be clean and direct to view, so the layouts are more tends to be simple but unified. Some left blank spaces in the arrangements are aimed for more imagination or duration of thinking. The goal of arranging the layouts in this way is hoping that my audiences could focus more on the story itself.
The most challenging part would be applying the layouts with skillful ways, but not overwhelmed with adding more to it.
I enjoy making this type of work because I integrate my seriousness and passion into the final version. Personally, I like the story in this piece. Between two of these characters, when people look back into their fortuitous meeting, maybe you would understand that the encounter was never an accident but something that meant to be.
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process documentation and sketches
