Today was the first collaboration session with Chongqing artist, Chen Yizhong. Using Skype meant that he could see the space in real time and put it together with informatin and images from this blog. These are his words about the experience –
Due to information from Chris’ Blog. I found we both interested in exploding and working with space through changing process, or changing appearance. Time always connected with space or reverse. So while Chris shows me the space, I firstly attracted by the sunshine casted in the space. Since Chris told me, so far, it’s the first day she saw this kind of sunshine in this space. so I decide to ask her to record it with process. Firstly. We find a specific sunshine shape casted on a wall. And Chris starts to use pencil draw out the outline, but we found the result is not strong enough. But the idea already shows interesting and performable. Then she change to charcoal, to mark out the shape of the light. The shape of the sunshine is close to a triangle. The light moves very fast actually. we’ve soon already felt or involved into the time-changing process, and involved to the space at the same time. Then I think it would be nice to make photos to catch the nice image that when the light shape and the charcoal mark are still together. Because at one moment, I feel the light will not come back again. I am very like the way how the light just cast on the charcoal marks. Later we find another specific shape cased by the sunshine on the same wall. It is show up as two circle. Chris used the same way with charcoal to make the shape, but this time I ask her try to switch between edge and face to mark the shape, while them constantly moves on the wall. Now, from the two shapes on the same wall, one is circle and another is triangle, we already build up a shape-contrast. Chris decide to use this method in next ours even next days, continuing the process. And make some photos for it. I am very interested to see the final result.
Back to me, this is the first time I have tried to do a physical piece of art using Skype. There are definitely some interesting points to be made about the notion of time and its relationships. I think it is quite important to keep things simple as Yizhong says as the slight delays sometimes mean we speak over each other. But it was a good experience and looking forward tocarrying out our artwork over the next few days and having another discussion.
