My overall diptych concept is called “Traces of Time”. I would like to focus on something that exists but people often tend to ignore so as to record and review the passage of time.
The photo taken by the camera is likely to be a specific object existed in the reality while the collage is more of a artwork that consists of small pieces in daily life. The first one is more documentary while the second one is more imaginary but they are closely related in both time and space.
I plan to take pictures of the old buildings in Tilanqiao area in Shanghai where the jewish people once lived on their ways out of Nazi German’s massacre. The remains and the people live there nowadays are also included the range of shooting.
I plan to adjust brightness and contrast of the photos and then use crop and slice tools to build an artwork in the collage. Retouching and painting tools may also be useful.
