How to be Satiated in the Dark (Animation Excerpt)

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“Ghost town” is a geographical phenomenon when houses and apartments are being built in greater numbers than demanded. With only a few families taking residence in a largely empty area, these “homes” no longer seem to fit the supposed warm, comforting idea of “home”. Developers keep building more and more apartments in order to attract people for investment. The empty buildings which exist in the area make the section where they were constructed gradually became a “ghost zone”.

Born in my hometown, Donghai which is located in southern China, I found this place is always reminiscent of my childhood memories until I have noticed the “ghost zone” phenomenon there. In 2017, our family moved into a new house in the villa section, which contains 48 of them, in my hometown. By the time we moved in, those villas were already empty for several years.

How to be Satiated in the Dark is an on-going docu-fictional project which I began producing in the summer of 2019. I juxtapose my dream and memory of living experiences at my childhood home with the ghost zone, which contradicted with the images of my hometown from my mind. It is a project that not only examines the social-historical context of the ghost zone, but also reveals my psychological attachment of belonging to my provenance.

The 3D models in the animation are accomplished by Photogrammetry, which is a digital simulation process of reconstructing the object or landscape by assembling photographic materials. By collecting and constructing plenty of photographs that I accumulated from the villa zone in my hometown, I intend to create a virtual simulation process to reconstruct the landscape of the ghost zone.

It is a project that not only examines the social context of the ghost zone, but also reveals my psychological attachment of belonging to my provenance. My ultimate goal is not seeking a solution for the mundane architecture that is a product of the complexity of greed. With this project, I hope to provoke a phenomenological contemplation to the viewers about the tension between their self-perception and the living space.

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