Jan's installation drawing: You can, Can you?

Break the Rule: You can, Can you?

“Life is short, Break the Rules.

Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.

Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably

And never regret ANYTHING

That makes you smile.”

Mark Twain

Why people keep following the rule? What if you try to break it once? This is because we all have our own believes but mostly of them we did not experience by itself but overheard it as a second hand knowledge. 

As the same as the letter 'สธ' (SOR TOR) at the front gate at Faculty of Architecture which Architecture students believed that if we step on it we will not graduate. Does it really true? Have you know a person that step on it and not graduated? I am not disparaging or anything. However, I am telling you that most of us do not experience by ourself but overheard form seniors and its just gone in our head. Moreover, Thai people also believed that we should not step on any letters or words. As if as we know that we should not step on Sor Tor, when we see people step on it. Somehow, it creates a feeling of uncomfortable and unaware. Feeling emotionally towards it showing erotically that how people can be conveyed the feelings and express its emotional. 

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

SET UP

This Axonometric view shows how the field was set in the site. I placed it in front of the statue of Ajarn to create the atmosphere like he is looking to us

Axonometric view of a pattern

Section of installation on site

The pattern of the letters overlapping creates another pattern to the tile which it can be seen as an illusion because the more overlapping the letter, the harder to recognise

INTENDED EFFECT

The diagram shows the possible feelings to the letter. The further, the safer. The nearer, the more concern.

The site itself looks very spiritual and sacred to us, Architecture students. Since there was a believe in which if we step on the letter in front of the statue, we will not be able to graduate. I want to experience on how different people perceive differently and express with different emotional expressions and feelings. I want to investigate the first feeling that they are on what they respected but not a normal feeling that they have before. In other words, I want them to have fun to not graduated.

The site does matter because it was already sacred itself because it was the placement of the statue that we worship. My installation will use the believe to change the emotion to the opposite towards the letters that we tends to believed. Not in a forceful way but make them experience intensionally. Will u dare to do?

MATERIAL EFFECT

One thing to considered is the material used in the installation which is woollen fabric which give audience the texture just like soccer field.

SURVEY

95% choose to experience textured floor

5% choose the normal floor