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REMOOM
interactive projection & TD exploration
Mar. 2024
Featured in USC GAME EXPO 2024
When we spend a long time living amidst the skyscrapers of the city, we often yearn to return to the nature. Conversely, after a prolonged stay in the fields, we find ourselves missing the city. I believe this reflects a subconscious desire to find a balance between straight lines and curves. Similarly, after reading many texts and absorbing a lot of information, might we also, at some point, revisit the aesthetic beauty of typography?
Chinese, being the oldest script still in use today, undoubtedly possesses an aesthetic appeal with its combination of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal strokes—lifting and pressing, creating a soft beauty in the balance between hand movements and characters. Moreover, the system of creating Chinese characters embodies another type of beauty, one of rationality and systematic organization. When we no longer focus on the role characters play in language, these beauties reemerge. Thus, this work aims to showcase the new possibilities that arise when Chinese characters are allowed to grow freely as beautiful symbols, detached from linguistic information.
When a poem is no longer just a poem, but a waltz between the hand and strokes, a poem can make us see mountains as mountains, and seas as seas. Thought transforms into form, form transforms back into essence. Here, let's understand Chinese characters in an entirely new way.
The Wheel
The wheel is ambitiously designed after studying base-units and stroke similarities to represent all Chinese characters, not through perfect matches but with a consistent aesthetic. It then takes this concept further by applying the vibe of Chinese characters to a wide range of potential artworks.
Technical Resolutions