Personal Ocean with Ultramarine Light, Lightup the Blues私人的海洋，海藍光， 點燃藍色的憂鬱
Mixed media; ultramarine bulb, sand, water, glass tanks, table, chair and video
WEERA IT ITTITEERARAK 張國樑
2020 BAS New Media graduate
Abstract
Studying through self-experience from a third-person perspective, I see the relationship between myself and the surrounding. The environment underwater affects in different senses, the 450nm ultramarine light release pressure and reduce depressing emotion.
從第三人稱視角通過自我體驗學習，我看到了自己與周圍環境之間的關係。水下環境以不同的方式影響著感觀，450納米的海洋光釋放壓力並減輕了沮喪的情緒。
Description
An art installation placed in a room with ultramarine light shine the darkest. It is able the audience to sit in front and look into the tank which with the 180-degree hologram projecting a video programmed to follow the momentum of the water waves.
Artist Statement
Blue, a phrase or phenomenon, always make “blues” related to sadness and depressed emotions. It is cold color temperature, opposite of red as warm color temperature. A short-wavelength around 435 nm – 495 nm in between the cyan and violet in a spectrum of visible light.
Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785):
BLUE, to look blue; to be confounded, terrified, or disappointed.
BLUE DEVILS, low spirits.
John Barrett, Dictionary of Americanisms, first edition (1848) U.S. English slang usage:
BLUE. Gloomy, severe; extreme, ultra.
BLUE DEVILS. To have the blue devils is to be dispirited.
Earth pigments yellow, red, purple orchards, sienna and umber were all already available. Yet, one element remained tantalizingly out of reach – blue. The color of the sky above, the pounding wave, and the heart of the flickering flame were unobtainable. The world truly is mostly a blue place, no matter how we look at this planet, it is governed by the blue part. Ultramarine, rich and vibrant, and because of its rarity and lengthy method of extraction, natural ultramarine became the most expensive of artist’s colorants – its price, occasionally, even exceeding that of gold. It is the color of the ocean which I want to turn it into my property, to privatize, and to own it.
The ocean is everyone’s back yard or front yard or living space. The total surface area of Hong Kong is 2755.03km², the land total surface area is 1106.34km², and the water total surface area is 1648.69km², even extensive than the ground. The whole planet is where we live. There is no ‘away’ that we can put things and expect that they are really away, and we cannot escape with the phrase ‘not in my backyard.’
The ocean is blue without blues, and I wonder if I could own one, the ultramarine could light me up.
