To Illuminate

Almost all the beauties that the human eye can see are made up of light and shadow. I wanted to create an illusory and hazy visual experience through the interplay of light and shadow. For the project 'To illuminate', I printed the photograph shot by film reels on poster paper of various sizes, arranged the light and backdrop, and then re-photographed it again. Like the reading of Hitchcock's Vertigo, the images, after the use of light and tableau, form a distinctive 'storytelling' in the new overall image. Through the seemingly simple combination of materials, scene, and light, the viewers could immerse in a new idiosyncratic visual experience and atmosphere from this set of photographs. I fully exploited the potential of different props in terms of spatial structure, granted a sense of fluid structure to the light and shadow, and weaved various elements, tangible or intangible, figurative or abstract, strong or soft, into a complete whole. Finally, such a world composed of lines and planes is presented.