My Fleeting Shelter exists as a liminal space, a children’s playground anchored by a stable triangular structure: playground rides, the mother, and the star chart. The star chart symbolizes a gift from mother to child at birth; the playground, a shared journey between them. Everyone holds their own star chart. Everyone visits a playground with their mother.
Through spiritualism, I seek to create a space where those trapped in their struggles can momentarily escape the real world. By continuously scanning real-life playgrounds and reassembling their structures, I construct a new playground dreamscape—one that blurs the line between memory and imagination. This dream is mine. This is my sanctuary.
My playground space is, in essence, a projection of the Other’s (the child’s) consciousness of fear. People externalize their personal fears onto the world, rationalizing them as reality. “You know, it’s not that I am panicking; the world is like this—the world is in a state of panic, and I am simply reacting to it.” (Michailov and Young, 1999). This rationalized panic becomes a form of self-therapy. As Deleuze states, “We can never separate ourselves from the world: the inside is merely a selected outside, and the outside is a projected inside” (1988a, p. 125).
I began experimenting with image-folding techniques as part of my visual exploration. Searching for playgrounds and scanning them became essential practices in this project. I use 3D models and textures of playgrounds as my primary visual language, reconstructing and reimagining them to reflect the blurred boundaries between fear, reality, and imagination.
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