Developed based on my Diptych Concept, I went with Uno for the unedited image, but I modified the layout of the cards a bit. I left only one wild card among the rest that are red, yellow, green, and blue cards, trying to emphasize its uniqueness.
For the other image, I took pictures of several modern buildings at the New Bund and the Bund areas. I removed their backgrounds and applied image adjustments in Photoshop, including changes of hue/saturation, color balance, threshold, gradient map, etc. I tried to shoot buildings that have regular geometric shapes and rotate them to resonate with the Uno cards. I also made them black-and-white to contrast with the first image. The only saturated building is a temple in Hangzhou, called Faxi Temple.
In general, I would like to compare and contrast geometric shapes, colorfulness and monochromaticity, and organized and random. In the first image, I especially want to emphasize the wild card. In a world full of colors, and various human beings (?), it is easy to be overwhelmed. However, I think one (not only human but also could be another form of life) always possess something unique, or taking the literal meaning of “wild”, some “crazy” thoughts/abilities/potentials that even themselves have not realized.
Similarly, in the second image, I would like to create a scene filled with modernization and fast-paced metropolitan feeling. The rotated buildings add more unsteadiness to this city life. Sometimes, it almost feel like a cliche for a human being to go to urban areas, work, and develop. However, I always think other things that bear more of nature, serenity, human spirits, such as temples, provides a different kind of atmosphere.
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