延伸的刺点 The Extending Punctums

2013-2015

 
 

《延伸的刺点》系列共十一组,每组三幅平面影像。

第一幅:选自我扫描的诸多老照片(这些照片或来自我老家的旧相册,或是我在旧货市场购得),即呈现的是这些日常拍摄的老照片本身——这些原始影像里潜藏着“刺点”(这些刺点对不同人来说是不一样的);

第二幅:将这些老照片通过邮件或微信发给朋友,由朋友选择自己的亲友,观看照片并将观后感想(任何想法)写在白纸上,拍摄白纸上的字发回给我,我再将这些字在photoshop里抠下,粘贴在原来的老照片上——这是在接受“刺点”的前提下,人们对原始影像的直接读解;

第三幅:我基于每张照片上的不同文字给我留下的“图像化”的印象,通过网上寻找图片和自己拍摄照片来对这些文字反馈进行诠释,最后将这些影像拼贴成原始影像被摄主体的大致形态(拼贴照片所用的底色是根据原始照片中RGB三原色各自的像素数量生成的)——这是对于原始影像的间接读解,也是原始影像中刺点的延伸。

这一项目关注的重点是照片的“观看”,尤其是这类来自他人的、又带有强烈熟悉感的影像,这些熟悉感包括照片中的可视信息,以及观看者从“推测”衍生出来的对于照片的认同感和代入感。通过这一项目,我想在实践中拓展对于日常照片中“刺点”的认识:照片的刺点不仅可以出自照片的画面(实际存在的),也可以由照片的气息引发(实际并不存在)。不过,无论是哪种存在方式,刺点都确实作用到了每个观看者身上,不同年龄(参与者从十六七岁到二十六七岁不等)、不同社会角色(中学生、不同专业的大学生、白领等)、不同国籍(中国、挪威、英国、立陶宛、保加利亚、韩国等)的人的观看角度和反馈差异很大。

这一创作项目实际上是一项游戏,每组的三幅影像对应的行为主体是“我——他人——我”,而对应的形式则是“图像——文字——图像”。我想借此强调照片观看者对于照片“完成”的意义。一张照片的展示不仅仅是单向度且线性的(即作者占主导),观看者面对照片的能动性也应该得到足够的重视。“刺点”与照片应当是共存的,没有哪一张照片只具有一种意义,而赋予意义多样性的正是观看者。

我希望通过此次项目实现两个目的。一方面,此次项目立足于自己与他人之间的合作,我希望借此尝试一种“公共的”产生作品的方式,看看这种由不同元素参与的创作形式对我而言是否可行;另一方面,我也希望借此对我感兴趣的“日常照片”的特点进行探索,将“日常”中“个人”“家庭”和“社会”三个层面里能够通过艺术语言表达的特质挖掘出来。

Each group of the series of The Extending Punctums comprises three pictures.

The first picture comes from the scanned old vernacular photos that belong to my own collection. I present the photo itself in which there are a lot of punctums. For different people, these punctums are different from each other.

To create the second picture, I send the old photo to my friends by e-mail or wechat. My friends choose their friends then tell them watching the photo and writing down their thinking on white paper. They take a photo for the paper then send it back to me. I put these words on the first photo through PS. So the second picture directly shows the effect that the punctums put on the viewer. 

Then I make the third picture. The different words in the second picture may leave me some 'photographic' impression. Basing on the impression, I use some other pictures that come from inter-net or taken by myself to interpret these words. Finally I collage these pictures into one piece, making them get together as the shape of the figure in the initial photo. This is an indirect explanation for the initial photo, also the punctums' extending of the initial photo.

Actually, this program is a game. The change of each picture's subject in each group is Myself-Others-Myself, while the change of corresponding method is Image-Word-Image. With this series, I want to emphasize that viewers are so important to complete one photo. The presentation of one photo isn't just one-dimensional or linear, that is to say, photographer is leading factor. Viewer's activeness should be fully valued. Every photo has more than one meaning and it is the viewer who endows the photo all kinds of meaning.