Got inspired by my reading mentioned in the last post, I started to think about the relationship between container and contained. I found that many things became not functional generally when they’re loose/not contained:
- bed-room
- bin-outside
- water-cup
- food-plate
- body-clothes
- cosmetics-bottle
- quilt filling-cover
It’s similar to the separation of ego and body/body and space, which leads to loose ego and empty body.
If I only want to capture the moments of being empty, I could just photograph the above pairs. However, the point of my idea is the futility of attempts to fill the empty inside. So I thought of the following inappropriate pairs:
- outside-bed
- room/house-bin
- cup-detergent
- plate-water
- cover-body
I spent many days thinking about how to show both the emptiness and futility at the same time. Finally I found I had to mix the objects because of the cross-relationships among the objects:
Eva Wang 