Eva Wang

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 44 & 45 & EDIT & NOMADS EDIT & INSTALLATION VIEW & Tutorial & Critique

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 44

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 45

NOMADS EDIT

INSTALLATION VIEW

TUTORIAL & CRITIQUE

Michelle mentioned that images were made of pixels. It can be an interesting material.
Alison asked what the gap was. This work is not exploring the gap but just the state of existence with gaps.
Craig mentioned about possibilities and potentiality, paper to be novel, being and becoming. I never thought about it this way. But I guess it makes sense because of the state of fragments and uncertainty. I do want to show the potentiality for the materials to form a whole body with the support of a certain power.
Michelle said it’s like self-portrait. I agree. It’s a visualisation of my self-existence.
Michelle said it’s related to HAIR. Hair weaving is related to thread of words. Folds of hair is related to folds of paper. I have thought about hair actually. But loose fallen hair cannot go back to the scalp anymore.

What Do I Fucking Want (Writing)

Michelle said folding photographs could be something. Photographs are usually precious and crushing/ripping them can be interesting. But this work is not about anything precious.

What Do I Fucking Want (Speaking)

It’s mentioned about filming other part of face/body to produce language (eye/cheek/throat). It’s interesting that I didn’t think about this question. I guess it’s because my focus is just on spoken syllables. It’s just natural to see mouth speaking.
Alison said it could be interesting to build something out of syllables. I’m actually confused because the work is all about building something from those loose parts.
Craig mentioned about Glossolalia and Xenoglossolalia. I didn’t really know these words but I have kind of learnt this concept from someone. I’m not sure if it’s a language of just talking without meaning. I want that the language should be meaningful to the speaker but not to the listeners.

Installation

Michelle said it’s good that it’s showed separately instead of single channel. I agree, because they exist at the same time, not in order.
Craig said it released the boundary of images from phone. I wasn’t thinking about this but I just didn’t want it to have a clear physical edge.
Craig also suggested that the projection could be moving randomly or popping up in different places. I think I kind of have thought about this. But I’m afraid it gets too messy. And the effect of this form of presentation overweights the power of the videos themselves. And it’s not really all about mess. It’s about the absence of the hook to connect those loose parts.

Yutong said there’s much more freedom of expression through phones. I agree but there’s also censorship.
While watching Alison’s video, I wanted to ask what she meant by honest, how she chose the clip, what she was saying and the focus of the camera. I didn’t get to the end of the video but I can relate to the process of making as an artist.
I don’t feel much connected to Mengran’s work as I myself aren’t affected much by the pandemic. I don’t feel a big difference between google maps view and reality to be honest.
I don’t really get why Craig wants to generate sound from photos. And the way it’s generated just doesn’t sound meaningful to me.

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 39 & 40 & 41 & 42 & 43 EDIT

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 39 & 40 & 41

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 38 & DAY 33 & 34 & 35 & 36 & 37 & 38 EDIT

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 35 & 36 & 37

MONADS WIP

Here’re some notes I took related to my previous project FUTILITY. Reading them again, I found it completely related to my state of self-existence.

Malone is a naked monad, or almost naked, scatterbrained, degenerate, whose zone of clarity is always shrinking, and whose body folds upon itself, its requisites always escaping him. It’s hard for him to tell what remains in his possession, that is, ‘according to his definition’, what belongs to him only partially, and for what duration of time. Is he a thing or an animalcule? If he does not have belongings, then to whom does he belong? That is a metaphysical question. He needs a special hook, a sort of vinculum on which he can hang and sort through his different things, but he has even lost this hook.
The Fold

Losing a hook for possession.

However, does it not also happen that material aggregates leave an organic body without entering into another? Or that their monads escape the domination where they were, without for all that entering under without another vinculum? They remain in the state of unlinked monads, without a vinculum. Material aggregates seem to have nothing more than secondary linkages. No longer are they fabrics, but a felt that is obtained by simple pressing.
The Fold

The state without vinculum.

It inspired me of photographing basic material that can potentially form a whole body of another kind of material, while the increasing amount of the basic material is not connected with each other so that it fails to become a whole part/transform to a body.

CARPET

I think of fiber first, which can be pressed to felt, which can be woven to fabrics.

It's the stuffing I used for HOME. — I happened to have carpet samples so I separated a little fiber.

Tried different surfaces and found the white background is more obvious.

I hesitated about whether to choose the angle from the right above or side. I decided on the side because it’s more 3D, more related to a body of material.

PAPER

Maybe because I’ve made paper before, I thought of paper pulp.

WHAT DO I FUCKING WANT (WRITING)

I’ve mentioned in a previous post about connecting words to sentences, paragraphs and then articles. Then I thought words consisted of letters. And I wanted to photograph messy letters. I wanted to write the words I wrote during the quarantine, which was related to my self-existence.

Was experimenting with folding and unfolding and then I just wrote the letters on this paper and photographed it with my phone with flash.

Then I took photographs with a macro lens with flash on flat paper:

They just didn’t look as good as the test photo. They looked too plain. I started to think about the meaning of the folds.

‘The true opposite of the self is not the non-self, it is the mine; the true opposite of being, that is, the having, is not the non-being, but the had.’
The Fold

The history of emptiness/lack of self-existence.

To have or to possess is to fold, in other words, to convey what one contains ‘with a certain power.’
The Fold

The relationship between possession and power.

Reading the notes I took before, I thought that the process of folding and unfolding told the history of possession and loss, which could be a reason of the failure of building self-existence. And the marks of folds can also show the attempts of logically connecting letters to words. So for the second shot, when I added a letter within a word, I folded between the letter and the previous letter. And I thought the macro lens couldn’t photograph enough words so I used a normal lens on another camera while I couldn’t use flash this way. And I decided to use lined paper because it showed further that the letters were not organised.