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MY UNCLE IS A PSYCHIC I was born in a traditional family which every one is a pious taoist. In addition, some of my family members are psychic, including my grandpa and uncle. Thus, my childhood was around temples, religious festival and anecdote of believers. As growing up, I maintain a neutral attitude toward taoism and I am always interesting in knowing the role of psychic. Therefore, I interviewed three psychics and focused on their metal state in this project.
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My uncle recalled that when he was at the age of 19, he had a sever car accident. Miraculously, he was safe and sound. Afterward, his body trembled unconsciously and he could feel supernatural power. At first, he rejected to accept the fact of being chose as a psychic. However, after serials of tests and “communication�, God and he finally reached a consensus that after 20 years he must be a psychic to save people.
Psychic in Taiwan is a spokesman of God and every psychic has their own Lord. My uncle represents a martial god, Erlang Shen. When god possesses his body, he cannot talk but deliver messages to people via writing. The possessing process is variable because it depends on the style of God. Some psychics drink wine, suck pacifiers, speak dialect that nobody understand, or use weapons to hurt their body in order to show the power of almighty god.
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Color Inspiration
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I collected and analyzed many photos of psychics and chose the four colors to represent the status of my uncle when his body possessed by God.
Fabric: Organza Media: Oil+Nail Polish Time: 4 Seconds
Experiment 1 I use two different media, water-based and oil-based materials to present the process of two souls’ combination.
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Phrase 1: Mutually Exclusive
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Two souls which are paralleled indicate he is chose as a psychic but reject to accept this determination.
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Fabric: Tracing Media: Water+Nail Polish Time: 3 Seconds
Fabric: Tracing Media: Water+Nail Polish Time: 2 Seconds
Phrase 2: From chaos to acceptance
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To begin with, two souls are a mass. The subject losses his consciousness when the object (God) possessed him. Then he starts to accept his identity as a psychic. Two souls can combine well like two drops of nail polish mix together and form a beautiful print with water as media.
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Fabric: Tracing Paper Media: Water+Nail Polish Time: 2 Seconds
Fabric: Lycra Media: Water+Nail Polish Time: 2 Seconds
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Fabric: Tracing Paper Media: Water+Nail Polish Time: 2 Seconds
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Sometimes he needs to hurt himself to prove God’s almighty and the redemption of the people. Then he returns back to the essence. God leaves his body and the soul is elevated into a whole new level.
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Experiment 2 MIN HUA
I projected the psychic’s photos on the wall and imitated their actions to demonstrate their mentally and psychically status.
I found that part of the psychic’s body displace on mine.
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Experiment 3
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I used paper weaving to imitate the effect of the projected pictures.
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Firstly, the psychic’s appearance is blurred and represents the unconsciousness of the subject.
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Gradually, the appearance is much clearer and I tried to create the concave and convex effect.
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I changed the weaving material to tracing paper and the effect is much closer to the status of being possessed by others’ souls.
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Silhouette Development 1
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The concave and convex parts represent the moment of God getting into his body.
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According to the first process, I chose six types of daily dress, suit, trench coat, twopiece dress, blouse, sleeveless dress and T-shirt respectively. Then I projected photos and combined the previous silhouette of woven paper to seek for more variations.
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Sketch Design
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02 118/1013 DAYS The original idea of this project is from my daily observation in the subway of the city that everyone is phubbing anywhere and anytime. However, I am also part of the phubbers who spend amounts of time on cell phone to maintain my long-distance relationship. During the period of 1013 days, I only had 118 days to be with my lover. That is to say, to some degree I fall in love with a small gadget.
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In a long-distance relationship, spiritual bond and physical intimacy are essential for couples. Hence, the helplessness of getting stuck in a non- sensual proximity, the strong sense of dependence on cell phones, and the coldness of affections between the real and unreal world are three aspects I would like to manifest in this project.
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Untouchable Endless days Nights together You and me Now and forever Said our vows Made one wish The world is good With just one kiss
You’re always there Through bad and good You knew what to say You understood I love you I always will I’d do anything For you I’d kill Walks on the beach Nights under the stars Untouchable
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The days you came
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Day 1 after you left
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I recorded my mood of being in the relationship during the period from April to December. It shows the helplessness of getting stuck in the untouchable love is stronger as time goes by.
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I did an experiment to demonstrate the feeling of being in the relationship. I used PVA glue to apply on the parts of the body and observed the movement of glue being stuck, stretched, torn and separated. I shot the video individually to recorded the status of my lover and myself. Then, we touched and separated to represent the days we met and he left. From the stickiness of glue, it indicated that I stuck in the relationship deeper than him.
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