LIGHT TRACED

Exploring by Making

  • Columbia University - 2023 Spring

  • Individual Project

  • Instructors: Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano

In my memory, my life began in a small village in China, where cell phones and cars were still distant concepts. Before starting elementary school, I used to enjoy sitting in the backyard of my home, watching the migration of clouds and the cherry trees grow year by year. During the rainy season, I often saw rainbows appearing in the distance. In the slow pace of life, everything around me was mysterious and interesting. The changing shapes of the clouds looked like the mounts of deities wandering in the sky. The rainbow looked like a castle in the rain that I could step into with just a few steps. The unknown things around me stimulated my imagination, driving me to observe and explore all the details in the environment.

This design is a further return and exploration for me. I use my past eyes to reexamine familiar materials in life, reshaping and translating them with existing knowledge. Mansory, steel, wood, and plastic all bear time and memory in different dimensions. Just as time and memory can shape a person, the past of each object has also shaped its present. In the process of exploration, I picked up these fragments of memory and used ropes as a medium to discover their characteristics, using them to construct my imagination. And I recorded observations and creations through my camera as my eye for narrative.

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