Bamboo Memory Book
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste …
Material story: The story of mottled bamboo
When Emperor Shun died suddenly during a trip to Cangwu, the tears of his two concubines, (the Xiang River goddesses Ehuang and Nüying dropped onto surrounding bamboo and stained it forever.[ Mottled bamboo is known for being a decorative plant.Their dots represent tear.
Artwork Name: Dots
Material: Bamboo. Metal ,Transparent paper
My book describes the story of two swans.
The dots and junction in the bamboo skin like the lost parts of our memory, like regret, like trauma the which lead our personal story to become unclear and unstable.
I use natural material ------Chinese bamboo. I also try to use metal printing to make the image hidden in the dots. To change the traditional reading way, I design the jointing structure on one side of the book that causes the book to become a wearable book. Storybook and memory diary could be worn as carried ornament in our life.