Eva Wang

THE MINOR GESTURE

This is not to deny the past, but to say instead that what exists in experience is not a linear timeline but “various levels of contraction” (Deleuze 1991: 74). The manner of existence is how experience contracts, dilates, expands.
Erin Manning

Different experience leaves trace that forms existence.

Group Tutorial & HAIR SHOOTING DAY 28 & EDIT

GROUP TUTORIAL

Michelle commented that it’s like something I could control but I couldn’t. I agree. Especially with the last photo, I want to show that I do hold the choice to put on the shoes and walk out, but I’m doing it because of the pain it’s gonna take to reach the shoes.
Michelle also commented that HOME was a recreation. She found it interesting that I had different approaches to different ideas, comparing staged vs documentation vs performance to camera. Craig also commented about HAIR that photography is always a kind of performance in a way, and it’s hard to distinguish what point is documentation or performance. I agree with the point that HOME is a recreation & staged. I always recreate scenes to express certain abstract ideas because those ideas come to my mind before I visualise them. But to the point that HAIR can also be a kind of performance, I’m very confused. To me, it’s simply documentation, nothing performative. And the property of the work changes if it involves stage/performance, because the frustration/anxiety/worries is expressed through this unavoidable daily process. If it’s performed, it means it can be controlled, which conflicts the idea that it’s uncontrollable.
Michelle mentioned it’s like rose and thorns. I don’t really think so because rose are more attractive than repulsive but I’m not trying to sure home is attractive. Maybe the first photo is a bit but it’s from the view of outsiders.
Yuhui asked if I would shoot again to make the work more complete or polished. I don’t understand if she’s talking about the content of the work or the techniques of the photos. If I have new ideas of scenes for this work, I may shoot more photos. Technical wise, I know that they can be better but I don’t know if I want to spend more time to reshoot the same scenes.
Michelle mentioned that maybe I could take home outside. I don’t think I want to make home in a real world as it’s an abstract idea so I want it to exist in an abstract space as well.
About the FUTILITY idea, Michelle said it sounded like an alien, always shifting. I don’t really get the alien, but I agree with the shifting as my self-existence is just not stable.
Craig said HOME made him think of dynamic tension. I don’t understand what dynamic means, though I do want to express the tension between my body and HOME.
Michelle asked about my use of blog. I said it’s a way for me to organise my thoughts. And then later when I thought of it again, I suddenly thought of writing helped me connecting those loose/lingering words to sentences, paragraphs and then articles, which reminded me of the idea of FUTILITY, attempts to holding together fragmentary of ego to a complete self.

Asked Mengran why she’s interested in people’s feeling during the pandemic. I guess it’s because I don’t feel affected by the pandemic and I never have really paid attention to others’ feeling in my work. But I don’t agree that everyone’s lonely or depressed because of the pandemic.
Confused about post-humanism. I’ve never heard of this term before. I don’t understand Yunqiu’s intention about this idea.
I don’t understand Yuhui’s opinion about Chinese “concentrating on fighting for one thing” and “underpaid workers”. These two aspects are very complicated to judge. She said she cared about the workers’ mental health. But how would she know how they felt as she was not a part? And how about those “high-paid workers”? Their mental health is not necessarily good, either.
Very confused about all Crag’s work. It just sounds so complicated. I don’t understand what he wants to show about the folk magic and how he generated sound from the paintings.
Don’t understand Yutong’s intention about showing the change of the way of communication. She said she thought it’s more positive. Then what’s the meaning of showing that?

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 28

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 26 & 27 & EDIT

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 26

Tried Canon speedlite and it’s very handy.

HAIR SHOOTING DAY 27

HOME SHOOTING & HAIR SHOOTING DAY 22 & 23 & 24 & 25 & EDIT

HOME SHOOTING

I used 2 lights behind the room to create an effect that the only the room is lighting up and I think I also used another light in front of the room to get rid of the shadow. I wanted to shoot the room in landscape view while I found a portrait view could create a bigger distance, which related to the view from an outsider better. So I chose the last photo.

Tried to cover the visible floor with white paper. But when I was editing, I found it better without the paper as it’s not flat… Or maybe I could try with pieces of paper instead of a roll.

Decided on the landscape view because I wasn’t able to put nails on the top and I didn’t want to show a smooth top. The power of the lights I had couldn’t be adjusted so it’s hard to get a lighting I wanted. I chose the last photo because the tops of some photos were too bright and some were not so vertical.

A closer shot. I chose the last photo as it’s not too far and it’s got many nails.

The closest shot. Chose the last photo because of its closest view and better lighting.

I chose the last photo as the position of the foot was good and the angle looked more like really stepping on the nails. I wanted to show a stronger tension between the foot and nails but the nails were not stable so I couldn’t really use stronger force… Could use a sponge underneath to fix the nails. And I wasn’t able to point the light at the nails because they’re too low.

Chose the last photo because of the strongest tension between the nail and the eye. Would be better with light on the nail.

Decided on the portrait view to create a bigger distance between the shoes and my body to show the difficulty to get to the shoes. And I think it looks better to contain my whole body.