the rhythms of life and its process of being percevied
The rhythms of life refer to the rhythm of growth, chang es in form, posture in living organisms. When observing surrounding environment, I am particularly sensitive to auditory elements. According to the chapter "Observa tion" in Japanese industrial designer and design educa tor Shutaro Mukai’s book Poetics of Form, observation is not simply observing things through vision but rather a process of perception in which subjective sensitivity is integrated and, ultimately, one's own understanding is born within a synesthetic experience of visual and auditory perception and social experience.
the rhythms of plants
After understanding this perspective, I recognized that the "contraction" and "expansion" of plants during their growth, as discussed in Goethe's The Metamorphosis of Plants are part of the rhythms of life. I want to make the rhythms of life in daily life and the natural environ ment more intuitively perceptible through perceptual expression.
Here, I treated the phenomenon of plants "withering" as the posture of the plant through "contraction," and as part of the rhythms of life. I recorded the time-lapse of a flower from blooming to withering, and regarded the withered form of the flower as having a strong sense of life for me, making me feel that it is heading towards the end of life. I saw the rhythm of life that the flower crosses the boundary between life and death. In this way, I want to express the pure posture of plants, free from changes in the surrounding environment, as the rhythm of life. Therefore, I perceived the rhythm of "contraction" of plants that I recorded in time-lapse, and attempted au diovisual expression.
In the expression, first, I recorded the rhythm of life of "contraction" from a macroscopic perspective. I collect ed visual information on the "rhythm of life" by record ing it from various viewpoints. Then, I captured the pos ture of the plant contracting as a metaphor in dots, lines, and colors. The work is divided into three chapters like a symphony: the first chapter is "Landscape," the second chapter is "Glittering Dots," and the third chapter is "Waves of Life."
Landscape
Chapter 1
expresses the essence of the flower from a macro perspective, using the metaphor of landscapes such as cliffs, mountains, roads, and weather phenomena such as clouds.
Glittering Dots
Chapter 2 transforms the behavior of the wither ing petals into a dot pattern. The faster the petals wither, the faster the dots flicker.
Waves of Life
In Chapter 3, the form of the withering petals is traced with color lines, converting the color and form changes of the petals during withering into the shape of lines, capturing the waves as a met aphor for life.
The composition consists of these three chapters. First, the form of the withering petals is transcribed onto sheet music, divided into several voices. The law of plant "metamorphosis" by Goethe is then applied. The behav ior is treated as sheet music, and the life rhythm, such as the size and strength of the plant, is composed.
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