A spatial sequence from installation art - FOUR CUBES TO CONTEMPLATE OUR ENVIRONMENT

These Four Cubes to contemplate our environment by Tadao Ando are made up by the important elements in our environment, the oxygen, CO2, water and rubbish. They show the combination between different materials. All the materials in cubes can be classified into reveal and unreveal. Ando also used the different colour of lighting to make the whole space spectrally.

A painting - FEELING THE HEAT

Yellow colour of this wall painting is physics, language and imagination. Different people have different ideas of this painting. I consider this painting as a metaphor of revealing. The yellow colour can be some hidden elements that expose to people. The hidden elements in the space can create a spectral atmosphere. People can see something unexpected in the space.

An architectural sequence from a building - ST CATHERINE’S CHAPEL AND ALMSHOUSES

The almshouses were founded in 1457 and destroyed in 1942. Artist Patricia MacKinnon-day has reinvented the site, with architects BDP, by monumantalising the position of the former doorways in glass. The glass ‘doors’ double as display cabinets containing historic debris: Roman pottery, medieval earthenware and molten beer bottles. The artist and architect kept the whole original appearance of the building and add some modern elements to combine the old with new, use some spectral lighting to create a new environment.

A spatial sequence from a piece of poem - A SOUND COLLECTER

A stranger called this morning

Dressed all in black and grey

Put every sound into a bag

And carried them away

The whistling of the kettle

The turning of the lock

The purring of the kitten

The ticking of the clock

The popping of the toaster

The crunching of the flakes

When you spread the marmalade

The scraping noise it makes

The hissing of the frying pan

The ticking of the grill

The bubbling of the bathtub

As it starts to fill

The drumming of the raindrops

On the window pane

When you do the washing up

The gurgle of the drain

The crying of the baby

The squeaking of the chair

The swishing of the curtain

The creaking of the stair

A stranger called this morning

He didn’t leace his name

Left us only silence

Life will never be the same.

This poem describes very normal daily life that happens in a simple space. People can image what is going on in this space by reading the poem. This space likes a stage that shows different performance. The last sentence says 'life will never be the same', just like the space, can be always different by using different materials combination.

A short spatial sequence from film - REAR WINDOW

This filim talked about a man who had broken his leg only had to stay in his apartment. He had nothing to do but kept watching the different neighbours daily life that live opposite to his apartment. In this film, every space that being seen from the window in the man's apartment was like a stage that perfomed different shows everyday.