2011年11月16日 星期三

The ancient and modern

Dear all,

This graphic of the Taipei 101 building was inspired, as was the building itself, by elements drawn from ancient Chinese culture. Here I combine the contemporary silhouette of the 101 with images inspired by the exhibition "http://river.ishow.gmg.tw/index.php" at the National Palace Museum, where the treasures of the Forbidden City are housed.
I was impressed by a large screen on wall and the great projectors above my head. Different, however was that it didn’t have attendants in ancient costume. The exhibition hall made you feel that you were situated on the bridge or in the alleys, streets, shops and houses along the river side. And those pedestrians' behaviour seemed just like that of my ancestors who lived in that state and experienced a human condition so similar and yet so different from what we know today. Continuity and discontinuity runs through everything.

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