Photography Project

In the photography project I tried to use different random or organized figures with twisted blue oil brushes to intrude the photographs by organizing some positive and negative shapes to cover the main objects of them, and meanwhile change the original meanings.  Photograph and oil color painting are both the medium and the subject of the work, giving not a picture of creative meaning, but some uncertainty versions of meaning. 

The meaning of the photography collection is collaborated between viewer and me, which is unclear or even non-existent, but waiting for viewer to find out, or waiting for something to happen that might never happen.  In other words, it is pure potentiality and the uncertainty of the future.  However, later, I understood if I want to be a designer this way of communication is ineffective and insignificant.  Consequently, in order to make the communication more effective I named every piece of the collection.  The title of every piece of the collection is very important for viewer, which is the implication of covered objects, and thus leaving them boundless fantasy, so that the uncertainty of meaning results in multifarious interpretations from different viewers.  The collection also expresses the comparison between the photograph and oil painting. The vividness of artificial brush is contrary to the flatness of photograph.  The intruding blue brush, as a medium of painting, as well as a medium of communication, connects the original meaning and new meaning of different possibilities that is created by viewer.  On the other hand, the photograph and the brush of oil painting reflect the stillness and the movement, in which I create some different possibilities, I think, which is the another reality.  In which, the viewer is the leading role of creating different unsettled stories.  In this project, I am a ‘storyteller’.  In some cases, I just create or reform a scene of unsettled story, in which the viewer is half part of ‘storyteller’ together with me.  According to Willats, ‘The artist directs the audience’s attention towards a given view, and provides them with the means to examine it in a particular way, but does not prescribe specific meaning that should be brought to bear on it.’