Why and How

After this individual meeting, I have tow questions, one is why you use the element of shadow and if I use it how can I use it different between other artists. Why I use this element? I think the different culture let me feel the anxiety, strangeness. I think the culture is create by people, different people own different culture. Silhouette can represent people also can represent the culture.

Silhouette is a very interesting element, it was popular in the mid-18th century, but this form is still picture in that time. people like use it in package design or decorate. However contemporary artist make it become dynamic image. It can be used for artistic creation also can be used for commercial advertising. For example, Japanese company Toshiba use silhouette of people create a very warm advertisement. audience can understand the whole story through a lamp bulb. This not only conveys the warmth of home, also told the audience Toshiba LED bulb durability is very good.

Toshiba LED advertisement

Now artist always use it to make a story telling or individual display. It has a very important character that can overlaps when you put them together.I want use anxiety, pressure and strangeness explain my emotion in a new culture environment. overlaps also have another function that is hiding something. Maybe I can use it to display my feeling, like I want hiding myself when I meet so many different people or staying in a new environment.

except overlaps by each other, the same stuff also can overlap.sometimes we cannot understand people through a silhouette.for instance, there are two children's silhouette in a same picture, we can't make sure which child is happy and which one is sad, because silhouette can hiding some mood in some angle.

expression overlap

original picture

it let think about that can I use the silhouette combine real shape, the real shape we can see the dress or expression, it can influence visitor's emotion and activity.For example,an artwork named "Body Movies" projecting still picture of real people on the screen, then visitors can walk through it. their shadow will project on the wall by a big lamp.players can control the distance to scale own shadow, even the real shape was still picture, but the shadow let this artwork vivid and interesting. some players mimic the position of the real shape. it looks like some relationship with the real shape. the different size silhouettes and real people inside and outside the screen let me have to think about the relationship between each other. Also gives me a feeling between the human and environment.

Body movies (2000)

This is a other artwork named "Ageing", also a like a story telling, in this artwork, it add some additional elements in the silhouette, it makes the artwork deliver more information to audience.

Ageing