The Circular Stairs: Objects, Actions and Mind
Pictogram
ZHOU Zixuan, Steven 周子軒
Student of SM2105 Narrative Strategies and Aesthetics of Time-based Media
Abstract
Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon highlights surrealism, dream narrative, and the beauty of the human mind by utilizing loop, repetition, and the emphasis of objects and the characters’ actions. The universe resembles the complexity of the human mind; the spiral staircase in my pictogram is what exists in our mind. Starting from the outermost part to the innermost part, we will enter deeper and deeper into the many layers of the dream. Dream aesthetics prefers complexity and mystery. We might be able to peek at the profoundness of human consciousness.
