14 Oct ’19

Hidden Beauty Microworlds Revealed by France Bourely

I’ve read this book about the hidden beauty in nature seen through a microscope and found some interesting remarks as follows,

• The writer talked about how we could borrowed different perspectives as if we are an explorer, an ethnologist, a scientist, an artist or a philosopher to cross the frontier of the visible. We must awaken these perspectives that lie dormant behind our pupils. This is an interesting notion since so far I’ve been looking at the banana skin as an artist or an abstract artist in particular, I don’t quite consider myself as a communicator within that same moment. What if I look at the pattern as I’m a communicator, or also, from my tutorial last week with Whiskey who gave me advice to research more into the historical, social and cultural background related to bananas, I might also need to wear that hat of a social scientist.
• ‘The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious.” – Albert Einstein. The writer started one chapter talking about how we as human always in search for forms and shapes instead of embracing the unknown. Whether unconsciously or for pleasure, we are always trying to compose images that are familiar with our mind. I agree with this, and would like to demonstrate this with my creation of abstract shapes and colours animation to test out our perceptions. I also would like to include scenes where there are no intervention from me to the banana skin, to let the audience see the pattern just as it is as well. Also, she brought up this quote from a philosopher which with astonishment was the same person I used to research about before, George Berkeley who said “Being, is to be perceived or to perceive.” She said also that in discerning the invisible, it bestows the key to knowledge and contemplation. This mention connecting to contemplation is also a message in my film aiming to pass to the audiences.

10 Oct ’19

Yesterday I went to the library and borrowed books that I thought relevant to the theme of ‘being hidden’. I translated the word into various aspects, from beauty to nature, forms and even minds.

Below are some reference photos from the book Hidden Art in Nature : Synchromies from Oscar Forel that I found really interesting since they reminded me of foreign bizarre landscape from possibly other planets while actually they were photos of tree bark and wood.

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6 Oct ’19

I would like to create this page to further investigate onto the theme of ‘Hidden Qualities’ of the visuals we see.

Why it is being hidden?

• Hidden from distance, which is what I found from the Netsuke. Although not deliberately, but by only being far away from any visuals, it is as if some information is hidden from us if we can’t see it properly.
• Hidden from our attention. Sometimes we might not be aware of some information only because we don’t pay enough attention to it.
• Hidden from our understanding, perceptions or biases. Sometimes even though we pay attention to something, we might not be able to see what is in front of us if we are still wearing the same glasses of bias or preconceptions.

Below is an article with a clip that talks about a juxtaposition of a disease and its hidden beauty. It shows sometimes we need to go deeper into the very minute scale of a subject to understand any new information.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-22476101/hidden-beauty-diseases-become-art-under-a-microscope

What is being hidden?

• beauty
• meaning
• values

The challenge now is about conveying the idea of “being hidden” perhaps.