User:Chen Junyu/Graduation Project Seminar/ project proposal/Proposal3

Nature is a broad word. Plants, animals, landscapes, insects, air, earth, rain, they can all be counted into nature, even our human beings. Nature also can be seen as the opposite word of "unnatural", to describe all of the phonomenon which are out of the normal rules. And the object nature, now is going away from us. It is still surrounding, functioning, growing and dying. But it now plays a weaker role in our daily life. Of course it is the result of the developing of human society, but somehow, it is also because our narcissism and overwhaming self－focus. I want to step from our original feeling to nature -- fear , to (洞穴画）。

Scale. How does scale function in our physical world and mental world? In physical world, scale is the thing to doing comparison, to measure things between each other, to describe how an object looks like. And sometimes scale is the element connects so closely to our feelings.

Phobia.Our fear to nature. fear: 1. happen in a moment 2. scale can trigger our feeling of fear 3.

The reason of feeling afraid of something is very complicated. In physiological terms, fear is a feeling which can be generated in a short moment. By experiments, scientists found that fear can be traced to our amygdala, and the reactions of the amygdala are so quick that they are for all intents automatic. From zoology aspect，scale is one of the elements which can trigger our fear. It is an original feeling to all the creatures which are much larger than us since the ancient world, since " large " represents "dangerous" . Also, our instinct to avoid all the possible harm make us keep away from things we don't know. "Unknown" means " dangerous". fear from unknown，from the normal things in our life but when it turns into something different , out of our consiciousness, it trigger our fear.

what i should do next :

fear comes from the transition point between unknown and known.
we are afraid of things larger than us it is the original feeling we have since the ancient time.
nature. to change our angle to see nature.

道法自然

1。何为自然：人类的想象，人类美的观念，人类的宗教，或许还有人类的哲学，都有一部自然史。 "驯化"暗示这些物种进入了文明，或者是在文明的屋顶下被带大。但是“驯化”的暗喻鼓励我们这样“理解：它们就如同我们，已经多少脱离了自然界，似乎自然界只是一种在外面发生的东西。这又是一个想象的错误。自然界并不只在“”外边“被发现，它也，就在这里。

2。scale scale可能并不会在论文的部分出现太多，但是对于作品，scale无处不在。如何定义我们自己，如何定义自然，如何定义人和自然的关系。从神话和童话中，拟人的自然，或者，拟人的神话人物，代表着人类对自然的直观的感情。（小人是何时出现的，小人的出现是否代表着人类与自然的力量的反转）。（这里要注意时间的区隔。神话或许没有这个问题，但是对于童话，随着时间更迭，童话的写作目的也随之改变。）

3。恐惧我们与自然的关系，是一部长大成人，渐渐没有了对其的恐惧的历史。这种恐惧的递减，可以在艺术作品中体现出来。我想要达到的，就是把这一种恐惧带回来。展示一下，所剩无多的“the wild”。

自然一直都存在，文明是建立在自然这个大的背景之上的人类社会的属性。那么何为自然呢？引用《植物的欲望》中作者的解释： "驯化"暗示这些物种进入了文明，或者是在文明的屋顶下被带大。但是“驯化”的暗喻鼓励我们这样“理解：它们就如同我们，已经多少脱离了自然界，似乎自然界只是一种在外面发生的东西。这又是一个想象的错误。自然界并不只在“”外边“被发现，它也，就在这里。我们隶属于自然，我们也通过文明，篡改自然。如果回到远古时代，自然的身躯如此庞大，人类只是屈服地蜷缩在它的身体上的小爬虫，仗仰它的鼻息和怜悯生存。现在，当我们谈论“自然”的时候，能想到的是户外，野生，原始之类的词汇。我们毫无恐惧，（除去那些经历了最严重的自然灾害的一部分人）我们毫无惶恐，我们生活在现代化和高科技的保护网之下。当我们在人类社会的圈子里，我们对包裹我们，渗透我们每一处皮肤和血液的自然毫无知觉。我们开始着手改变自然。开始给荒野的最后退避之处－－遗传的层面上－－印刻上我们的痕迹。所谓的文明的痕迹。

那么，这一切是如何开始的？又是如何进行到这样一个局面的？这是一个巨大的议题，我想用一种视觉化的方式去找到其中的脉络和因由。通过神话和童话中出现的种种人类和类人生物的痕迹，理解和感受人类对于自然的态度的变迁。

为何是神话和童话？

与人类，与Intel lecture 保持距离。贴近土地，源，