{"id":1197,"date":"2017-04-18T13:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2023-05-05T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T06:43:58","slug":"seen-unseen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/18\/seen-unseen\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen Unseen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josiecavallaro.art\/category\/belmore-itch\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Belmore ITCH&#8217;<\/a> has provided an informal creative residency for non-ceramic artists to challenge and expand their art practice with ceramics. I loved the idea of this residency as I have wanted to experiment and interpret the photographic medium in ceramics as a photo-media artist.<br \/>\nI had been looking through image files in my digital storage and photo negative\/positive films and prints. The whole stack of images came out to the light, and I was reading this visual diary which has forgotten for a long time in my memory.<br \/>\nI took photographs of my family, friends, passer-by and myself at a specific moment and place to record as a visual memory. I took photographs of sceneries to record feelings that interacted with them. They are the proofs of &#8216;existence&#8217; through time and space. In my vague memory relying on those vivid images in films and prints, I started to ask myself: Is this the one I &#8216;really&#8217; saw? Those people and places seen in the past are now invisible in the present. Now, I even try to trace my feeling at that moment.<br \/>\nTo visualise this concept, I created bowls (dishes), an eye and a camera lens, which could contain layers of images as the layers of memories. Through the residency, I also learnt the natural character of clay. The softness of the clay made it possible to imprint objects from my journeys and belongs to trace the memory. And it worked well with another natural medium, water, to connect the layers of images. Even though it was obvious that images on papers or gelatin sheets would be burnt in kilns during the process, I wanted to see the feeble evidence of existence like ashes. As a final process, I let paper images float on the water and connect myself to the present time by reflecting my face on the water.<br \/>\nFrom sorting photographic images to making clay bowls, it was my own meditation on tracing me.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">From sorting photographic images to making clay bowls, this creative process was my meditation on tracing memories not long after receiving my cancer treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This residency project,\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Seen Unseen,<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0has been led to be part of the ongoing project,\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Passage to Pusan,<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0which will be exhibited at Korean Cultural Centre Sydney in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1198\" style=\"width: 2174px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/test-bowls02.jpg\" alt=\"Testing \" width=\"2174\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/test-bowls02.jpg 2174w, https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/test-bowls02-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/test-bowls02-1024x265.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2174px) 100vw, 2174px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Testing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1200\" style=\"width: 5256px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1200 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SeenUnseen.jpg\" alt=\"SeenUnseen\" width=\"5256\" height=\"1535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SeenUnseen.jpg 5256w, https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SeenUnseen-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SeenUnseen-1024x299.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5256px) 100vw, 5256px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seen Unseen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202\" style=\"width: 3543px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FrontBack.jpg\" alt=\"Front and Back of bowls\" width=\"3543\" height=\"1772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FrontBack.jpg 3543w, https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FrontBack-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.soyounfotoarts.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FrontBack-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3543px) 100vw, 3543px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front and Back of bowls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Belmore ITCH&#8217; has provided an informal creative residency for non-ceramic artists to challenge and expand their art practice with ceramics. 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