User:Nan Wang/ thesis03-12
Introduction:
“…For the microscopic debris that covers our clothes and bodies are the mute witnesses, sure and faithful, of all our movements and of all our encounters.”
Locard, Edmond, The Analysis of Dust Traces, American Journal of Police Science, 1(3), 1930, 279-298.
Dust pilling up in our life. Quietly appearing on the surface of our shelves; floor; table, every corner inside our room. They always flowing and spreading around us and been considered as Abandoned unwanted, annoying or unpleasant waste of our life. One day, I take a close look at the dust in my room, before they end up inside vacuum cleaner. I saw cookie crumbs, sweater fluff, cat fur, my hair, and tobacco debris… I smoke a cigarette after I comb my hair during the morning; guess visit my living room sit together with my cat drank a cup of coffee with cookies; my friend wearing grey sweeter lying against my cushion… All the narrative fragments happened in my life start to unfold in front of my eyes…
The research object included in this text is dust. My works mainly focusing on abstraction video and sound, using both digital and analogue media, researching how micro-perceptions and fragmented memories, construct individual past reality. Since I attract by dust, gradually it become instrument for sound, elements for images, object to sort, grammar of my works.
I am taking the position of sound and image-maker, interpreted dust under interdisciplinary context, and then intergrade into my works conceptually materially and visually.