Photo Journal Monday: Wen-Han Chang
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Images and text by Wen-Han Chang
Strange World
No one can be exempted from the need for sleep. In sleep, we are restored and refreshed while suspending between bodily functions and consciousness. We do not know what was happening when lying asleep. Further, those almost in trance are cut off from reality. What is the relationship between the actual world and the realm reigned by Hypnos?
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As a photographer, the camera was applied to expand my vision. It record what was going on when I was in deep sleep and the visual sensation was closed. The camera lens was set up to focus on the surroundings such as ceilings, walls, and corners of my room. The shutter of the camera would take pictures when I was not awake. When my perception was limited and cut off from the usual, the camera started to see, to reveal the world I never saw.
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Every day and every night several kinds of light, came from the streetlamps, headlights, and so on, went through the windows and reflected around. Rays of light implied that something traveled through time and space. The light caught by my camera left a stroke, a layer on the film. In other words, something or someone passed by, but their traces entered my room and being recorded by my camera.
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Layers of light, from the world we are familiar with, accumulated on the film, and thus developed an unfamiliar world. In parallel, we are strangers to the world during our sleep. By the use of a camera, the time of sleep could be collected as remains of light and colors. As a result, a strange, yet fantastic, world to all would be created and become visible.
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