Final Statement

Shadow From The Tender Age is completed.
The series is about imagination and reflexivity of childhood.
What are the contents stuffed in our minds when we were still in tender ages? How can these content be presented by them, so that we in today's moment would find out? and how do our own perspective in our tender age reflect to and shape our today's perspective?My 10 prints are constructed in 5 themes, which mostly express minds of the children. All themes are presented by 2 photos and they are one shot from the perspective at that time, which means: the same content that I photograph it from an angle would shoot when I was a child, and I photograph it as an adult to looking it the childrenland.
In short, one photo pretends as "a photo taken from tender age"
one photo as contemporary perspective to retrospect the tender age.

childhood refection

I decide to bring up a project that i did in the past summer as my final research source. The project is a performantive photo series called The School Girl Dairies. basically, I recollect the memories from ten years ago and some memorable trivial were written down in my thereat journal book. In the project I did performances for those trivial event and documented then, in order to explore how the things happened at that time shape my personality and unwittingly influence me in today.
My photography series has the similar theme as the School Girl project one, which they are all about reflexivity of tender ages. but my photography series will be more complex. I will construct my photography from two points of view: one from the perspective of a child and one from present

paper cutting

Although the technique of paper cutting is hard to achieve on 2d form photography, the paper cutting works by artist Peter Callesen(official webpage) inspire me for contiunous working on my project.
the image on left is called Do Not Enter and it has fences construct on the the flat shape of a foot print. I see the meaning of making a barrier around someone's own feet and receive the message of self-protected. This idea of self-protected is existed in my mind as a child too i believe, and it lasts until today.

Ponyo

this is Hayao Miyazaki's new animation Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. In MARK SCHILLING's article An audience with Miyazaki, Japan's animation king , he mentions that
it's a paradisical time when "you're protected by your parents and unaware of the problems around you". His views of children in the modern world are a bit worried, though, as he wonders about their dependence on the "virtual world" and the lack of contact with the natural world. Because of this, he creates his films inspired by children near himself, with an aim to "understand their world"

water drop expression

a magnification of water drop can expression an eye of child.
so I was looking up some good photo expression of water drop.
the open page of Zach Braff's 2003 movie, Garden State's official website is very very neat. and it reminds me how to coorperate this elements with human figures