After digital publishing 1 and 2, I have tried to multiple images by putting words on them and making it moves. But it makes me wonder how it will be, if it just image itself. What can I do to make it reflect on what I want to express without adding words or making it moves.
This is a picture of Guangzhou, and here is where I grow up. But it’s not “when” I grow up. Guangzhou is in the south part of China, Historically, it never have been a political centre like Beijing or Shanghai did, this is probably the reason why most of the Guangzhou’s people doesn’t care for modernisation.
And this is the Guangzhou when I grow up. This picture captures a normal daily life in Guangzhou. And the architectural complex in the picture is the most identical feature of Guangzhou names “Qi Lou”. The history of “Qi Lou” can trace back to ancient China, the structure of “Qi Lou” perfectly compromises the Warm-wet climate in Guangzhou and it’s financial status as one of the most important harbour city of China because the ground floor of “Qi Lou” are use for business like shop or restaurant and its ventilation.
Since 1990s, because of modernisation and subway building, “Qi Lou” have become a stumbling block and being dismantled. Nowadays, “Qi Lou” can only be seen in a few area. And it becomes a sorrow in many people’s heart. People like me, who grow up in this city and see its change.
To show this emotion, I put to picture next to each other and make the picture of “Qi Lou” upside down and turn it into black and white.( In Chinese tradition, black and white pictures refer to death or something that is no more or gone) Last but not least, I make it blurry because the memory of “Qi Lou” is kind of fading through time.
Reference
ifeng (2018). [image] Available at: http://news.ifeng.com/a/20180708/59061411_0.shtml [Accessed 13 Sep. 2019].
sohu (2017). [image] Available at: http://www.sohu.com/a/212477420_142115 [Accessed 13 Sep. 2019].
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