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SIMPLIFICATION

AFTERNOON DAZE

Siesta produce s the personal time and space which is temporarily separated from our daytime routine. Not like long sleep at night, under the influence of sunlight, siesta often makes people drowsy and half awake. At this moment, people’s floating consciousness and the heavy body are two relations of the unity of opposites.

SIESTA

Sleep is a natural behavior with the change of sunlight, but people's real life pattern is muc h more complex than this. Siesta, different from the long sleep at night, is a short period of rest and tranquility, relaxation and concentration.

RECORD

Once I took some photos before and after my nap. The light in my bedroom was dim and soft. I could almost hear the faint sound of the breeze slightly blowing translucent curtain. Sunshine left the vague shadows on those irregular curtain folds, just like ripples.

MATERIAL EXPERIMENT DRAFT

As I tried to recall the feelings during the siesta, I found the similar features on some materi als. I collected different materials like wool, wire meshes and plastic thin film. Their exqui site tactic features, like light weight and floating shape and soft touch, brought me into a subtle, hazy and fragile atmosphere.

The tubes were half-open because I thought siesta was not like long cloistered sleep. I used the translucent Washi paper to make the shell. The paper has long fibers and is soft like a piece of cloth. I tightened up one end of the paper column by sewing with needle and fish-line.

The materials inside the shells have vague shapes: diffusing, falling, floating. I could rec ognize the existence of my body during siesta, although its edge had already been ambiguous.

The warm sun shone upon an open book. My consciousness gradually disappeared. I floated in the air with shining dust and white sunlight. Everything became so dazy, including time.

DAZE, DEATH, DREAM.

·Digital

·Handcraft

Only dream and death can isolate us from the real world. This is the derivative work of Afternoon Daze project. This project focused more on the similarity among siesta, dream and death by using two mediums(digital art and handwork) to simulate my own siesta in different worlds between dream and reality.

INSPIRATION: A STORY ABOUT DREAM

In an afternoon, an ancient Chinese Philosopher named Zhuangzhou dreamed of himself as a butterfly flying around in ecstatic oblivion, in tegrating himself with the outer world. Upon awakening, he was obsessed with the question:"Have I just dreamed of the butterfly, or has it just dreamed of me? Am I recalling a dream, or am I actually in one?"

This is a short story called Zhuangzhou Dreamt of Butterfly. In this project, there is a virtual avatar in my appearance sleeping in different surreal spaces, while my human body is awake in a real world. I have a same question as Zhuangzhou’s: am I just a dream of the vir tual avatar? Will there always be a absolute answer with the deveopment of virtual reality?

I built a 3D model of myself and put them in different dreamlands inspired by the installation in the project Afternoon Daze.

In some details of the illustration, the shadow and distortion effects generated by the algorithm of computer created an ambiguous world lying between reality and illusion.

Sometimes siesta echoes me with a vague feeling of death. It’s a strong sense of seclusion. Mask has certain relation with magic and death, such as Tutankhamun's golden mask and the jade mask of Chinese emperors, which were used to protect the body and spirit of the dead against external harm. When I have a siesta, I get into a re laxing and concentrated state and break away from linear time. The time and space were expanding inside my mind like staying in a cocoon. Therefore, I created the mask in the shape of my face to keep the spirit away from the outside disrupt ion .

I tried using the aluminum foil paper and the gesso with a piece of gauze to make a unique mask of myself. I found the skin texture on the gesso was so delicate and fragile like siesta to some degree. So finally I decided to use gesso to create the masks.

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UI DESIGN

飼い主は犬証を通してアカウントを結びつけて、犬の属性を並 んで、飼育アドバイスをあげます。犬散歩ためのナビゲーショ ンシステムは犬散歩に役立つの同時に、使えやすいです。その 他には飼い主たちの社交機能と犬の免疫記録があります。

SIMPLI F I CATION

With the change of time and territory, Chinese characters are constantly "evolving" according to people's habits. The development of Chinese characters is complicated and simplified.

This book is divided into two chapters. The first chapter will focus on the simplification process of Chinese characters, combing the history bac ground, font characteristics and related font design of simplified characters; The second chap ter will discuss the possibility of new "simplification" of Chinese characters in 3D perspective.

I have done a lot of research including different versions of the earliest simpli fied character design and its typeset.

C enter of Gravity

The character is cut into four parts according

then closely arranged.

the center

the strokes of the four parts

simplified characters

h aracters

When we walk in the street or look at advertising signs from the car, we don't always look at them from a positive and static perspective. With the change of angle, parts of the word will deform or even vanish according to the perspective principle. At this time, according to the heterogeneous isomorphism of Ge stalt theory, we will make visual supplement of the word to understand the meaning of the text. Therefore, I revisited the design of Chinese characters from a 3D perspective.

Like cutting a cake, I cut the character “ 气 ” into several parts by 3D printer. The cross sections of the chracter looked different with the change of the cutting angle. Then I painted them in black ink and stamped them on the paper so that the distortion of the character can be seen clearly.

STROY

O ne day in the subway station, I no ticed a man walking before me turn ing back and looking in my direction for several times. I thought maybe he was looking for someone behind me then. However, I found him fixing at me as I walked by him. I was a little bit uncomfortable, so I quickened my pace to escape from his glance. As I walked away for a while, he was still looking straight at me behind several persons. I was just like escaping from the subway and finally found that he had disappeared. After all, the man didn’t hurt me physically, but I felt terribly uneasy.

PEEPING AND MALE GAZE

According to Michel Faucault's power theory, male gaze is a form of repressive power, which demon strates the unfair status between female and male.

In a patriarchal society, female is always being watched by the male through all kinds of ways, like peeping. While peeping makes most female worried

and uneasy, it brings the male not only the sensual pleasure but also a sense of control. In the movie Peeping Tom, while the male protagonist peeped the heroine, the director's camera was also videoing the heroine. This means that the movie has made voyeurs of all audience.

PEEPING: AMBIGUOUS

Peeping, as a human's behaviour, is ambiguous. According to the law in China, peeping is immoral but not a criminal act. Because it won't cause direct damage to the victim and most time it is hard to be

confirmed. However, it makes people being watched, mostly female, feel sick and unsafe. Those peeping toms realize their delusion and gain a sense of control by trespassing others' private life.

Movie: PEEPING TOM, Michael Powell (1960)

Movie: PERSONA, Ingmar Bergman (1966)

ATTEMPT BEFORE

I drew several drafts with some traditional image like monsters and octopus to symbolize the peeping toms. But later I realized the fear of being peeped is not the same as the mood when we watch a thrill er. It's brought by a vague and uncertain fear in our ordinary life.

VAGUE FEAR

Most of the people under the prying eyes couldn't make sure where the sight behind exactly comes from. It arous es their suspicion and makes them feel unsafe. What's more, the fear in their mind is unpredictable and without a concrete shape, because they couldn’t make sure whether there is an eye hiding in a small black hole or a crack appearing everywhere in their daily life. Since the fear is full of uncertainty, it is the daily scene that makes contrast to the fear, not the cliche in the thriller.