Why to construct a lightbox?
- Lightbox = light + box = both light and box are important elements to be taken into account.
- Back-lighting creates a strong sense of luminosity and reinforces transparency.
- The box may represent the inversion of architecture
Some historical，ethnic，and contemporary precedents of lightbox:
- commercial billboard and advertisement such as the vending machine in the Sofa lounge
- cinema
- slides
- tracing on a light table
- lantern
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- Piying-xi play (皮影戲) or Shadow Puppetry
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I might use the last one as an aesthetic reference.
What does it mean to construct an image?
- creating an artificial representation of space
- if the image is fully based on photos, then it represents a man-made reality which is entirely based on fragments from the real world. How real can it be?
- if the form is hybrid, such image implies the integration of the real and the representational. As the creator, I can control the degree of integration, and use it for the symbolism and/or narration of the work.
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