User:Chen Junyu/graduation/theise/project proposal/Draft:EMO

Why

What this topic interested me is, “scale" is the feature truly appearing on every object, either in the real world or in our imagination. When this feature is limited on human body, there is a variety of datas can support our impression of it－－the median height of American men is 5 feet 9, Dutch are the tallest average people，or children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about and inch and a half every 20 years... and so on. We analyse all the elements which have an impact on our height--nutrition, inheritance，sports and so on. We try different ways to make ourselves grow taller in a "normal" range, since if someone's height is too high or short, like gigantic or dwarf, other people will look at them weird.

But when we look at on all kinds of arts, all the works related to human figure, the scale of the human figure is hardly the same as the real size of human being. The most obvious phenomenon is，there are very few human figure statues is made in a real size, especially those human-like gods statues. An interesting example is, in Taiwan, there is certain standard for the size of gods statue to place in different occasions. such as 5 feet 1 and half, 6 feet 2 and 6 feet 3 and a half are special for temple (in Taiwan measure standard). On literature, either fairytale or myth, we can find different kinds of stories related to "giants" or "little people", which all have distinct difference on scale compared with human being.

[[ when what we imagination comes true, such as the appearance of an unicorn or angle, the awake of dinosaur，they will lead us to different feelings, either scare or wonder. But when we think about the feedback on human being ourselves, our reaction is mostly negative -- weird, curious and rejective. Somehow we draw this kind of "abnormal human being figures" in art again and again. This comparison is so evident, therefore cannot ignore it easily.]]