A) i was always thinking about patterns and textures that belong to a specific place. for example, hong kong is sometimes regarded a concrete jungle… we have patterns such as red-white-blue bags…
an idea would be like messing up both locations with their own specific textures -> redrawing hong kong / zurich by scratching texture from theh other location on the paper.
the physical touch in reality towards something that entirely non-exist …
B) i hope we could try to have images that are not taken by us with a camera, even if we have photographs, it would be nice if we uses images that we collected from somewhere in hong kong/zurich as inspirations or may even incorporate them to develop a work. a group work.
C) from left to right:
scratch wall / door frame / a drop of paint dried on the wall / bamboo seat mat
When I was an undergraduate student, major in painting and drawing, we used to have this assignment, to provide an entry to texture of “things”. People always talk about “visual art”, literally it alludes to “visual” as major sensory experience. At the end when we finished the assignment, we had to learn to appreciate the aesthetics of texture, how the space is represented in form of “touch”. The difference between taking a picture of wall crack and sketching on it, the painting reveals the action of an artist over time, the delicacy and intimacy of pencil touching the surface cannot be replaced by a simple image.
thank you so much for the nice sharing. i would like to add a bit on the idea of “space”. especially when i was sketching on the door frame decoration. the feeling of looking at the shades of black on it stroke by stroke is very unique. the outcome is visually very similar. it marks the process of that experience, yet we can never experience that “touch” on it ever again.
I like the idea of making something visible by own means or of re-inventing photography. 🙂
Can you tell us more about the relationship between the two modes of collection images to regular photography?
ummm… making something visible by own means requires a presence of the maker, or at least some interactions between the object matter and a third party (for example, the little robots in MARS for astronomical research). while re-inventing photography stimulates a new way of seeing things, to be critical and re-evaluate what we already have on hand.
photography has a complicated community nowsdays… unlike painting and drawing on canvas / papers which literally takes time to at least make something happens, the easy accessibility and affordability of a photo-taking machine, people all around the world takes photo, if not just a quick snap, of everything around them, like Debord’s idea of “being to having”…