500 Years
Pictogram
YAU Chong-hei, Chester 邱創熙
Student of SM2105 Narrative Strategies and Aesthetics of Time-based Media
Abstract
500 Years is inspired by Alberto Duman’s chronology-map “View of the Tate Modern, London” (2007), which creates a historical view of Tate Modern with words. The words not only convey the meanings of the entities, they also structure potential interpretation. In my pictogram, I highlight ‘ROBBER LEADER’ and ‘THE MONKEY KING’ to be the two characters of the story. The two scenes are divided and one of them is inverted. Readers can interact with the artwork by rotating it.
I use 1-point perspective to make the work lively, imagining the character on each of the two sides is walking forward from the vanishing point. By combining the multiple stories and dividing them up into two parts, I seek to connect the characters’ relationships and strengthen the 500-year time travel which is the backbone of the film’s story-telling.
