HUE OF DAY April�hsu
You mentioned that -some get used to worshipping, -some are confused by something dazzling, -some had been mature sexy and pretty. April Hsu National Cheng Kung University Law/ Industrial Design department
Hue of day mainly collected the pictures that I took during my travel in past 2 years. It is not a graphic design work for anything, but footnote in my life. In the past two years I experienced so much, broke up, died, lawsuit, accident...Suddenly, the essence of life became so clear through tears, and I tried to express some of it through the pictures, inclusive of so many personal perspective and emotional part inside it. Facing so many graphics, how to choose the coherent context and compiled them together become a big problem for me. Before embarking on the work, I categorized these works by the hue in my daily life, ink, blue, white, and red. Regarding sunrise as the beginning of one day, the first part is red, then, it would turn to gray, white, evening blue and night ink. So I arrange my works according the sequence and talk about my feeling of life through each colors.
You have read enough in your life. You emphasize something past in your belief. your word just like the red line in my note, some say it is important, is it real?
Read [Past tense]
Through len, I described something past, /mature/dazzing but suddenly withered / and life fragments that I drew red line in the past.
Stand up,swing, look up, down down upside down. hug, dance, jump, run. You stay among people, you maintain a proper posture. You are a statue. You make everyone get close to you. but nobody really cares what you care. You are in gray, and so am I.
gray [grace posture]
Metaphers inside the set of pictures are related to the grace posture that we need keep when we stay among the life competitor, lover, families ,friends and strangers.
I leave one question blank in the test. I leave one moment blank in my life. Hard to say, hard to define. No answer, no exactly right. please wait me a moment. I will know, I will find out...
White [wait a moment]
Some moments, just wait. Some moments, need to be wated. And I took these moments.
Ocean, Sky. All you can see is blue, All you can feel is breeze, All you can listen is your breath. blew away, blending with my tears, bon voyage! in your bright way.
Blue [blew away]
Although things happened, someone stroke the stone into your pond It will gone in one day. Stay in peace, simply perceive essence and let daily blue gone.
Inside the dark, the deepest impression might be vague. Inside my mind, the vague world might be dark. fortunately, we find the light. We know daydream is our right, illusion is our favorite.
Ink [insight of dark]
In the sets of pictures, I tried to stand in dark and captured memory that came from bright.
Read
You mentioned that -some get used to worshipping, -some are confused by something dazzling, -some had been mature sexy and pretty. You have read enough in your life. You emphasize something past in your belief.
[Past tense]
your word just like the red line in my note, some say it is important, is it real?
Paradox yours,�mine hard�to�define
2012 toyota art museum, jp
PAST HAU HAND IN SHADOW
UNTED YOU N HAND W IN SHADOW
2012nagoya, jp
2012. aichi u,jp
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2012. nigashiyama zoo,jp
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USED TO THINK YOU ARE UNIQUE DAZZLING AND PERFECT,
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UU
YOU KNOW YOU JUST s LIGHT. REFLECT OTHER’
WHO WAS I?
P.E.L.I.C.A.N WHO AM I?
P.E.L.I.C.A.N nigashiyama zoo
2012.toyota art museum,jp
PAPER CRANE and LANTERN
No more fly, No more light
PAPER.Umbrella I stood in rain. She Stood the rain. I broke up. She was abandoned.
2012.Ginza,jp
Angle,
Fragments Unity look the seperate pieces in specific angle. Past/now/future are connected together. 2012 .Aichi,jp
gray
stand up,swing, look up, down down upside down. hug, dance, jump, run. You stay among people, you maintain a proper posture. You are a statue. You make everyone get close to you. but nobody really cares what you care.
[grace posture]
You are in gray, and so am I.
2012. nigashiyama zoo,jp
SCRAMBLE PEACEFUL SYMBOL SYMBOLIC PEACE
2012. osu,jp
DEAR [grace posture]
You have several postures, you get your own direction. You run back and forth to pursue something. When I come across you, we stop/we seperate.
2012. Nara,jp
To Gather
[grace�posture]
OH, MY FRIENDS, MY FAMILIES. WE LIVE TOGETHER TO GET WARM. KILLING WORMS IN WARM SPRING LIFE.
2012. Nagoya,jp
WEA
[grace
Shuttling back and forth, con
AVING
e posture]
nnecting with unseen strangers.
white
[wait a moment]
I leave one question blank in the test. I leave one moment blank in my life. Hard to say, hard to define. No answer, no exactly right. please wait me a moment. I will know, I will find out...
Still on the road
Wait, I would catch up your shadow.
2012. toyota art museum,jp
G.A.Z.E
[wait a moment] Hello,hey, hi, oh, wow, ?, !, ./metaphycosis.
2010. HK
2012. toyota city
TRANS
Eternity of th
2012. nagoya, jp
2012. aichi, jp
SIENT
he moment.
I could not leave my habitant, my body and2012. myjiyugaoka, family. jp Sometimes, confinement makes me feel free, [wait a moment] Sometimes, too much freedom confines me.
Confined
2012. tsukiji, jp
Lingering
Back and forth, hesitate, stammer [wait a moment]
LIFE of THE YEAR
Alaways, always. We talk about that farthest and closest year. trying to stay at the happiest moment.
B.L.O.S.S.O.M [wait a moment]
! My gaze cling to you in astonishment.
2012. Nagoya, jp
The moment Everything Faded Away in the mist and so did my rememberance.
2012. Hakone, jp
2012. nagoya jp
Pale Complexion Without making-up of light. You are plain, but profound.
Blue
Ocean, Sky. All you can see is blue, All you can feel is breeze, All you can listen is your breath. blew away, blending with my tears,
[blew away]
bon voyage! in your bright way.
IST
TSIM
MIS TSI
MIST MIST
SSED MIST 2012. hakone, jp
BACK AND FORTH VAGUE IN THE DISTANT
KYOTO
GONE LET’ S DRINK TONIGHT
2012.aichi, jp
HANG/ DOWN GET/ HURT
YOUR PROSPEROUS
2008
S IS A HUGE BuBBLE
8.NY
TO DAY, NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN TAKE CARE. HAPPY AND ENJOY EVERY DAY
SINCERELY,
TOMORROW
2012.KYOTO
CALM IN SURFACE LET THINGS GO THROUH UNDER WATER
GOD I PUZZLED YOUR BODY LAST NIGHT “YOUR GOD FORSOOK YOU LAST NIGHT”
FORGIVE ME ANONYMOUS SURGEON
Ink
[insight of dark]
Inside the dark, the deepest impression might be vague. Inside my mind, the vague world might be dark. fortunately, we find the light. We know daydream is our right, illusion is our favorite.
SIIPPERY IMAGINATION
2012, Nagoya, jp
Just like swimming fish, imagination went in/out/down/and disappear.
TWISTING
You twist everyday. After realizing, before being relieved.
2012, tokyo, jp
TWIS
Sponteneously, I had tw with y in the atm
STED
wisted for a long time, you, mosphere.
OWN
High heels stopped me now. Where do I place My own and Myself ? 2008, 5th avenue, NY
WELCOME TO
Never withe never grow
O NEVERLAND
er never fall, w never old
CHA
You know channel would lead to destination w “All you ne
ANNEL
while you still claim that you stay in the mist, dark and ocean. eed is pathetic cosolation.�
To look part of truth.
OPEN WINDOW
“I Saw Double Fantasy th
2012. Tokyo Dis
hrough your eyeballs.�
neyland
Ripple
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER
Let me take you down, cause I am going to strawberry field. Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.
NITE , END HUE OF DAY