|
|
ACT02: A SLICE OF SPACE TIME
A Slice of Space Times is a model of invisible time line of Sybil Kathigasu's life. To reconstruct a model of a space time continuum in the life of a main motherly figure of a wife, midwife, nurse, mother, communist sympathizer, criminal of war and later a forgotten heroine of the British Empire that the Neo-Malay dominant "ketuanan" Malaysia desperate to forget by exclusive from the Malayan History, almost unheard of in the history textbook of the secondary school of Malaysia.
The first day of tutorial was the first time to meet Sybil Kathigasu from the novel "No Dram of Mercy". After reading the story, the first impression that came into my mind is that she is a super bossy lady who was known for her bravery of being a brave freedom fighter in WW2. I have done a paper mock up to describe the timeline of the story as how the story of her life goes. Apart from that, I have developed the design of the timeline which provide a capacity for every time zone that Sybil have been through. I started installation one week ago, spending half a day looking for the old wood and rusty nail from the construction site as the base of my installation. I found out that the materials might only be able to complete a small scale of the installation during the process. Thus, I went to get another wood to enlarge the scale to give the model a stronger feeling.
To deconstruct a model of a space time continuum in her life, by single out of a slice of these "space time" continuum for close examination, reassemble back these slices as though history has an "if". Her story of motherly loves sacrifices, pains, hopes, torments, frustrations, undying faiths, retributions, confusions, cynicism, perversions, shelter, individualism all mixed in a concoction of the brutality ego centric heroism would have taken another twist. The lighting as a core of the time space, who was also the main character in the story - Sybil Kathigasu connect all the slice as she passed through all the years from the timeline. The screw on the slices was the figure of Sybil Kathigasu started from the year she started writing the story after being set free from the prison. Every single slice means the years she has been though. At the same time, the figure appear from the shadow of screws was her figure as the story bring us the impression of this hero.
From the first mock up that I have done to describe the timeline of Sybil, I realized the story gave us an imagination of her figure. She was having the strong personality and been though all the tortures and pains. This give me an idea to create her invisible figure though a model. The experiment of shadow was successful which I have to do several scales of parts of figures on different slices as the distance was different from the light source. At the same time, I have tested different materials including the PVC and acrylic sheet which is strong enough to hold the screws.
The first day of tutorial was the first time to meet Sybil Kathigasu from the novel "No Dram of Mercy". After reading the story, the first impression that came into my mind is that she is a super bossy lady who was known for her bravery of being a brave freedom fighter in WW2. I have done a paper mock up to describe the timeline of the story as how the story of her life goes. Apart from that, I have developed the design of the timeline which provide a capacity for every time zone that Sybil have been through. I started installation one week ago, spending half a day looking for the old wood and rusty nail from the construction site as the base of my installation. I found out that the materials might only be able to complete a small scale of the installation during the process. Thus, I went to get another wood to enlarge the scale to give the model a stronger feeling.
To deconstruct a model of a space time continuum in her life, by single out of a slice of these "space time" continuum for close examination, reassemble back these slices as though history has an "if". Her story of motherly loves sacrifices, pains, hopes, torments, frustrations, undying faiths, retributions, confusions, cynicism, perversions, shelter, individualism all mixed in a concoction of the brutality ego centric heroism would have taken another twist. The lighting as a core of the time space, who was also the main character in the story - Sybil Kathigasu connect all the slice as she passed through all the years from the timeline. The screw on the slices was the figure of Sybil Kathigasu started from the year she started writing the story after being set free from the prison. Every single slice means the years she has been though. At the same time, the figure appear from the shadow of screws was her figure as the story bring us the impression of this hero.
From the first mock up that I have done to describe the timeline of Sybil, I realized the story gave us an imagination of her figure. She was having the strong personality and been though all the tortures and pains. This give me an idea to create her invisible figure though a model. The experiment of shadow was successful which I have to do several scales of parts of figures on different slices as the distance was different from the light source. At the same time, I have tested different materials including the PVC and acrylic sheet which is strong enough to hold the screws.
|
|
|
