Postcards

Today received 3 postcards of 6 that send them on last Friday at the same tim.

Ambiguous space

It is to reveal the information and restructure the mythical landscape of place between the personal experience memory and the reality in the section of journey event.

From Hypnerotomachia Polophili(1499), Poliphilo dreamed about being in a threatening dark forest and narrates the myriad things he saw. He tells about forest, gardens, fountains and rivers on the island. And the images from the book represent the places, monuments, and fragments visited in the dream.

Another narrative from east culture, in the end of Peach forest(the Eastern Jin Dynasty from 317 to 420), it is a poet to describe the fisherman sailed along a stream for a long time and neglected how much distance he had traveled. Suddenly, he arrived the Peach forest and the forest was ended at the stream source. He caught sight of a mountain，which had a little entrance, seemed to have some light in it . In the end, he intruded another “world”, Utopia, where the people didn’t know outside of real world. When he came back to describe what he saw, no one believed him. There is a literatus believed what he experienced, and then they tried to follow the trace of the route that fisherman left. However, they lost it even they tried to find the way to go several times. He starts to wonder if it was a real experience or it was a dream.

According to these two narratives, it expounds a poetic vision that sets a temporal boundary to the experience of architecture, showing that architecture is not only about form and space but about time, about the presence of man on earth.

It will be launch another trip for the fisherman through modern technique to record the piece of journey and left the new trace on the geography. It will be photography images that are the trace or footprints, or an interpretation of the real, and postcards used the folding papers that left messages during the journey and send it back.

It will collect all fragment elements to evidence the personal experience of the body as the site of meaning. Furthermore, using the fragments to reveal the behind of information and try to map the route of the journey, and to restructure the spatial experience through the drawings.

Part Four:The arrival

The arrival

This is the final part of the journey. A portion of the image is imbued with color. It emphasizes the position of the camera and what the ritual is in the Stone Circle.

4-1 It is the start point for the ritual

The texture of stone shows corrosion of the stone. The Stone Circle transforms the light from the sun, the moon and the starts into shadow. From time to time, the ray of the light projects on the surface of the stone, then the shadow of stone is changed by light accordingly. In other words, the groups of flecks are the evidence that shadow was once an existing substance.

4-2 The spot light (Part 1)

The observer peers through a gap between the plant and stone. His eyes can not see the image clearly because the light moves slowly. It presents a vague image.

4-3 The spot light (Part 2)

The light is gathered in the central place, and the shadow is surrounding outside the circle. From here, the image is presented clearly by the spot light.

4-4 The spot light (Part 3)

In this picture, although the spot light tries highlights the scenery but the image is obscured by the tree. The observer sees the things peeping through the leaves.

4-5 Return

This perspective image shows that light shifts slightly. The light “touches” the surface of environment and extends its shape. It also spreads from the tree to the ground to point out the road is the way to go back.

4-6 The end. It is also the beginning of point.

This is the starting point where light sneaks in. Because of the darkness of the room, at first it is a room of shadows. At the end of journey, the light permeates the space.

The light is dancing, shifting, and jumping in this place to celebrate it.

Part three:“Touching” the environment

“Touching” the environment

In this stage, the observer is experiencing the environment by using “touch”. The angle of image shows the position of observer when taking picture, thereby using a different perspective to examine the surrounding area. This perspective shows the interaction between observer and the environment.

3-1 Swamp: above the surface

This photo uses a bird’s eye view to look down on the swamp. From this photo, it looks like light is dancing on the surface of water. The reflection of light makes clear the movement of water from surface place to deeper area. The reflection of light shifts and leaves the trace through the camera; it projects an impression onto the observer’s eyes.

3-2 Swamp: preparing to submersion

In this photo, the camera zooms in to take a close look at the swap. The eyes start to examine how light and shadow shift on this surface. This is the performance of light and shadow. They dance and shift slightly in different position at this stage. The light dances in the positive space, and the shadow dances in the negative space. Here technology in the form of the camera freezes the action frozen at that moment.

3-3 Forest: the slipping and the sneaking

This also uses micro view to examine how the light projects onto the environment. It reveals the implicit conversation between light and shadow in this image. The light communicates with the environment in a positive way by brightening it and the shadow in a negative way by darkening it. The light jumps quickly from one to another; on the other hand, the shadow keeps the gentle rhythm.

3-4 Forest: behind and above

Here, the camera zooms out to fully perceive the interaction of light and shadow. In this photo, the light is hidden behind the tree. It casts a shadow of the tree through the lens of camera. The huge image of the shadow created by the tree implies that observer is small in this environment. Also the position of the shadow in this picture dominates the light.

3-5 Cliff: hide and seek (part 1)

This picture creates an image of the observer climbing from the bottom of the cliff to the top. The image also shows that the shadow is lurking beneath the cracks of rock. It prowls in this narrow space to avoid being captured.

3-6 Cliff: hide and seek (part 2)

The camera zooms in to look closely at the surface of the stone on this cliff. The background is blurred; however, the foreground is clear to present the texture of stone. In this game of light, the light smudges the image in order to avoid the shadow to be revealed on the surface.