Diary Weina
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8 maart 2010 »
During the morning, I have a lesson about studio light; I experienced how to create different scenes by changing different lights. The objects could become so mysterious in different situations.
Then I noticed this piece of wood when I just walked out of the room. Through the small window, the bright sunshine smoothly projected a form on here. It seemed easy to notice something with a different light on it, although there was nothing interesting for me.
I know light is a very important element in creating a nice image. But at the same time I start wondering it could also be dangerous if I just focus on it. It seems something that I can learn and control before making an image. It could be a rule for building a beautiful image, but it is not good for developing the inside of myself.
I don’t really like to see the professional actors who often do exactly the same thing at exactly same moment in every show they do. They already know when the viewers are going to laugh or when they are going to get interested. What I like are things that I can’t really control and never know what is going to happen. And that will be good for the mind work, and also good for keeping my curiosity. Everyday is a new day, and it is always good to do something new. I never know what is going to happen during the next day and I have to really pay attention to everything, and actually it is much fun.
This photo is also about light; I shot it when I passed through this street at one night. In the beginning I liked it, because that light gave me a feeling of calmness and reminded me a lot of old memories. But later I found it seemed a fact to connect the same feelings when I continue to shoot it during every day. It is always same and actually there is nothing special in it. So later I lose my interest in it.
Nietzsche begins his essay On the uses and disadvantages of history for life with the extraordinary assertion that collecting facts in a quasi-scientific way is a sterile pursuit. The real challenge was to use facts to enhance “life”. He quoted a sentence from Goethe: I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
I always think my discoveries will have to enliven me: they will have in some way to prove to be ‘life-enhancing’.
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Weina is an artist from Inner Mongolia in China and a resident at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
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