Why did I make the English roof as a sculpture?
well.. ceedings I have already made the Chinese style porch roof, I thought about also constructing an English style roof as well because I want that cultural relations between England and China. I want to be able to bond the two different cultures together as part of my degree show to show the difference in time zones, culture and the relationship between me and my girlfriend.
Through skyping each other, we almost feel that we are there together but in actual fact we are not there with each other. Its a way of feeling more comfortable in our situation that we must go through many times with each other because of our long distance relationship. This is why I make things like the Chinese roof and the english roof because its a away of us meeting once again with each other, I am the english roof and she is the Chinese roof.
Another memory Trace?
I would say that the memories side of things are very strong in this part of the work I create. When I was on my visits to China I had seen various old roofs and old buildings and all I wanted to do was take a part of that back with me. In my mind I guess I am always taking new memories of me and my girlfriend back with me so at least I would be taking something special back with me.
In a way I wanted to re-create the Chinese scene that I experienced and take that from my mind and then interpreting it in my art work. These experiences that I remember in my mind are the memory traces that I had with my girlfriend and somehow, I want to recreate a moment in time with my girlfriend that is shown in my art work.
I will build my own Dark room that will hold Chinese roof on one side and the English roof on the other and will have doors on each side so that viewers can walk in. Me, wei cheng-my girlfriend, Ting Ting-her friend and another friend will be playing an ancient game of Mah-jong which will act as one of my memory traces. I will be showing some sketches of my ideas a bit later once I have finished editing them to the right proportions from my sketchbook.
