Brain Containers

INITIAL IDEA

From my point of view, East and West perception about each other is shaped by different cultural, social formation and values.

So I took a video of ink integrating into the water to represent the ideology  from nonexistence to pass into existence.

The reason why used ‘ink’  to stands for ‘ideology’ is that ink represent Taoist philosophy in the traditional Chinese culture.

THE CONCEPT

Brain Containers

The human face to the West and East. The one’s knowledge and ideology is accepted from the society.

In Chinese culture, the ink represents the artistic conception and life attitude in ancient Chinese landscape painting.

But relatively in Western culture, the ink is just ink and everyone's perception about this is different, it does not mean any culture. This is one of the East-West cultural differences of perception.

THE FAILURES

Two faces will be ambiguous by others, maybe it represents two individuals, or on behalf of the person has two personalities.

The ink can also cause ambiguity, it will be mistaken as information, poison, memory, idea shared by 2 people.

Suzanne Rankin recommended me  LIO YEUNG’s artwork-'Obstacle in seeing' in Chelsea GDC final show last year .