In the Chinese system of writing, when another ‘wood’ is added to one ‘wood’, the word signifies ‘forest’. If you add another ‘wood’ on top of ‘forest’, it becomes ‘deep forest’.
In the case of the word ‘book’, a stroke is applied to the bottom of the stem of ‘wood’ to represent the logging of trees to make books. And when ‘tree tops’ are cut with a stroke applied on top, it symbolizes the end of the world…
A-Z prototypes is an assessment in which 26 objects were chosen to represent all the letters in the English alphabetical system in a random way. Designating various utensils for the vowels ‘AEIOU’ was the only deliberate choice made since they are alphabets that are most frequently used in the system.
Employing these 7 rules of arrangement, words are spelt using the objects marked A-Z, and then arranged according to individual interpretation of the meaning behind each word.
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5 min 29 secs
soundtrack adopted from Fourcolor, Letters of Sound of 12k music label.
“we work, similiar to an amateur archaeological adventure, to uncover within these abandoned spaces, a ‘being’ of its own, of little visibility, seeping light faint upon the quiet inside. These obscure spaces are the sub-conscious faculty of our spatial environment; they exist, implicitly, they harbour ‘things’, sometimes intentionally, other times, misplaced and falling from the cracks and gaps, certain memories, not precious but perhaps a vivid picture of our live in its perpetual state. We are not trying to assign functions within these spaces, nor crack open the light of day upon these quiet retreats, we merely wish to give these spaces a place of their own, a space weaved and given its ‘being’ through stories and imagination, we remain, looking…”
*This is an ongoing project exploring the consequences of passive arrangement within an architectural space. This series of photographs are impromptu captures of unremarkable spaces left behind by our logical plans and intervention of interior arrangement.
video
5 min 29 secs
soundtrack adopted from Fourcolor, Letters of Sound of 12k music label.
tonight, i found an old flower in a book. i remember the plant that holds it is no longer alive…