#Blog 6: Photo Diptych Ideas
I don’t have wins. But I am flying. I jumped from the top of the TV set and I am flying using breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle swimming gestures. I can feel the fraction of air. My head is about to touch the ceiling of our small department on the 14th floor. I flew through the short narrow corridor to the bedroom connected with the balcony. It’s probably spring or autumn cause the weather is comfortable and I can tell from the sunset.
The general inspiration for the Diptych is from this fake memory described above I have as a child that is so vivid that even till now, it lingers in my mind and makes me wonder —Is it real?
The fake memory was probably triggered by my mom’s saying that the people from the circus called and said that they want to take me with them on their tour. (When I was little, my parents took me to see all kinds of performances very often, including performances by Cirque du Soleil and many other circuses.) And I believed it partially because I was learning ballet… Anyway, it seemed logical to me.
I am using this project as a chance to recreate and record this weird memory or imagination of mind.
One photo will represent reality and the other photo will represent the imaginary world. The reality can possibly be the apartment, myself standing on the ground or swimming in the pool, etc. I hope the two photos can give people a hint of what’s the imagination coming from.
I plan to take pictures of my old photos, the apartment, toy elephant and monkey, balloons, swimming pool, animals (dogs, birds), clouds, and many more.
For the more realistic one, I would adjust the color to colder tone to represent a calm, rational atmosphere. And for the complementary manipulated photo, I will scrapbook the elements together and add on a warm, sunset-like tone to represent a chaotic, dramatic and nostalgic atmosphere.
I tried to use AI for inspiration. But it doesn’t seem right this time because the specifiic memory only belongs to me, and it’s not easy to make AI learn the whole story and details in my mind.
Oct 18, Century Avenue, Younian Liu