The launch of the pilgrimage
It is about experience and memory.
Photographs are used to record the spatial environment.
1-1The room is the be ginning:06:30:42
This is the beginning of the journey. The light peers through a chink in the curtain and penetrate the room from outside to inside. It radiates onto the ceiling and leaves its mark. It also appears in the corners of the wall to showing the path of the light. When the light peers into the room through the chink of curtain, it also corrodes the fabric gently. From the picture, it is clear to see the edge of curtain is burned by the light. Here light penetrates this gloomy space.
1-2 Another stage: the light goes to another room:07:05:25
In this photograph the light dances with shadow. The metal surface assists the light to reflect onto the wall. The shadow of object presents the image on the wall as well. The surface of wall is the screen to present the performance.
And the actors are the dancer of light and shadow. The photograph captures the moment of play in time and space. Their action is captured in this picture forever.
1-3 The path: It is the turning point.
It is the path of corridor and the corner of the space. Some parts of objects do not exist in this picture. They are presented by their trace through the light. The light etches the objects’ silhouette temporarily on the wall. However, the shapes are different from the original one, because the corner bends down the shadow of objects. The space changes the track of shadow. The object existing in this 2 dimensional picture creates a 3 dimensional image.
1-4 The image: The light stop in this station:08:05:13
This is the outline shadow of a wheel. This image implies the movement of the wheel; however, the light casts the shadow on the ground directly. It is to describe the frozen time happened in this image. There is no time onward and no space to present.
1-5 The time: The light shift through the circle of time.:08:36:47
In the bottom left corner of this picture, there is a clock on the platform which reads 08:36:47. It is one moment of time during twenty-four hours in a day. This moment is always presented from one day to another. It is not the frozen moment. It is just represented in the image and is captured by camera. Therefore, it is the spatial space in this picture.
1-6 The structure of roof is the performance for shadow:09:01:35
The frame of cast iron is presented clearly in this photography. It is through the light to cast the image on the background of sky. Although some parts of object are blurred, it is the shadow that smears it intentionally. The cast iron frame is not the only object in this picture. The shadow of this object is represented in the overlap of vertical wall and horizontal ceiling. It is also a spatial picture.
