2025-04-22 23:04 Status: ongoing Tags: documentation, photography, icloud

I kept documenting everyday events through my camera, smartphone, laptop, and online profile to search for potential narratives in the massive inventory.

I would do lots of experiments and frequently share my process with my friends to see their reactions until I found the proper way of presentation.

Midnight Vortex, multimedia installation, 2019 © Jing Zhao

This work consists of travel photographs I took in different places, dreams I remembered when I woke up, illustrations I created based on both, and mysterious sounds I recorded. Each medium acts differently, but together they harmoniously weave the intertextual narratives I initially imagined. The installation intends to show the complex relations between viewing, imagination, cities, and memory.

By slowly investigating this work, the audiences can experience a comprehensive navigation of body, heart, and spirit, from the preconscious to the subconscious and then to the superconscious - the three-conscious-behaviors-in-psychology.

References

https://www.altiba9.com/artist-interviews/jing-zhao-conceptual-art-installation-research