Hsin-Yi Chiu
Intermedia
Typography
Portrait of City Landscape
This project aims to sculpting the city landscape through the 3D relief cutout, through the photogram I try to create another vision and explanation to the city landscape. It’s not limited to any definition, it’s just another possibility.
Every day, we walk through the city, we see people passing by. Buildings are the background of our vision. They compose in our daily memory, washing away by time, leaving a slight trace in our memory. Windows are like lenses, are like eyes, looking at us, recording the history and present of our civilization and barbarity, humanity and cruelty, beauty and ugly. We’re changing together in reality and in the reverie. Windows to windows, eyes to eyes, eyes to windows, windows to eyes.
It’s actually an illusion that buildings are static, nothing is really moving. What is still is not still, some movements are not visible to our human’s eyes, time is another illusion. Changing just slower than the glacier melting. The city landscape is deconstructing into pieces and transforming. We see we blink. Sometimes we close our eyes, and see the city and the buildings, they also blink. Silently but lively. They are our own reflection.