According to Chinese-American geographer Yi-fu Tuan mentioned in the book of Escapism, people look for stability, and the material environment that signifies stability, we are naturally drawn to familiar things in familiar places that we build bonds with. People escape from raw and threatening nature into the refinements of culture. The culture evolves to create civilization, helps nurturing one’s sense of belonging toward the place, even the stability of civilization is falling apart, they will still fight for the best to defend and maintain it, till the fire of hope died out.
Through the installation works, video imageries and reoccurring process, the places at different time are linked up, the surrounding influences our sense of bodily existence. To reimagine the homeland, the place we are living in.
'Our body tied by the sense to the environment, is place; our mind freed from such sensory ties, is space.‘
Tuan Yi-fu, Space, Place, and Nature: The Farewell Lecture
Through the installation works, video imageries and reoccurring process, the places at different time are linked up, the surrounding influences our sense of bodily existence. To reimagine the homeland, the place we are living in.
'Our body tied by the sense to the environment, is place; our mind freed from such sensory ties, is space.‘
Tuan Yi-fu, Space, Place, and Nature: The Farewell Lecture
Homecoming Video installation with wooden slingshot