The First Vignette Idea

The topic for this and next semester is Animating the Con/Unconscious. This is definitely a big challenge. First of all, we are facing an interesting and tricky question: what is con/unconsciousness? From the academic point if view, we can say consciousness is our minds allow us to report in mental stated from gathered information; it is the brain’s perception of internal and external appearances, and unconsciousness is like a great store of people’s experience, which is composed of many forgotten desires.

It is not an easy question, however, animating the con/unconscious is another circumstance. I believe the personal experience and feeling are more suitable to represent this topic. It can be more lively and sincere to talk about something from myself. I just think to myself, finally, it is the time. 

This is my feeling right now.

Related key words are: consciousness, unconsciousness, subjective experience, desire, fantasy, autobiography, psychoanalysis, et al.

Here is a picture that flash upon my mind. Simple but clear. Some unconscious objects like a heart and a fish appear in the image. Generally, the object on the plate is confirmed automatically to food or edible stuff. But here I use a heart, which is a kind of symbol of love. Also a living tiny fish is in tumbler, which is used to drink. The functions and qualities of those objects are changed into other ideology. The interesting thing is the whole image is quite naturally and I can also imagine a sequence for it.   

That is a kind of combination of my consciousness with unconsciousness. Then more pictures appear in my mind. That feeling is more like searching information from the deconstruction of my consciousness and unconsciousness. Those broken elements integrate and reproduce into new messages.

So I start to collect the elements that I like. For example, the plant, food, fish, ukulele and clock. All those elements have a common point that they all have some kinds of connection with the “heart”, which I have shown in the sketch above.

For now, those images are more like a sort of the stream of consciousness in my mind.