Silent Maps, 2016
Silent Maps, Drawing on canvas, colour pencil and ink on wooden boards, oil on acrylic boards, 177 x 64 cm, 2015
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The Silent Maps is a transformation from Wandering Islands project, it is still developing. I would like to try more experimentation for this project.
The very first motif of this project comes from the Sea and Islands Series (2014) relating to my reminiscence of traveling, the islands in Hong Kong during summer 2014. While I was sitting on a ferry and waiting to arrive at Lamma Island, I looked at the ocean and how smaller islands passed by. They have no names, are no man lands, but excited my thinking and imagination. I interpret this traveling experience as stimulating philosophical thinking: “I can see the past in the future and the future in the past.” [1] This is a quote by the modern British philosopher Isaiah Berlin. |
In the quoted passage, Berlin reviews the history and development of western philosophy and criticises Cassirer’s philosophical theory.[2] The passage illustrates the geographical state of memory in our brain. The quoted word “future” means an unknown traveling destination in reality and symbolises an end of memorable ability. The “past” points to experienced events and our wandering minds. I would like to elaborate more symbols of this work: islands represent visible memory, and islands beneath the ocean represents our sub-consciousness.
[1] Berlin, Isaiah. "Reviews of Books." The English Historical Review 68.CCLXIX (1953): 617-619. [2] Cassirer, Ernst. The philosophy of the enlightenment. Princeton University Press, 1951. |
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