How do I archive the feeling of nothingness?
Ciomar as Urrainn dhomh Tasgadh am Farachdainn Neonitheachd-sa?
In awe of the landscape, a process of self-questioning meant I felt nothing.
I forced myself to feel, to sense, to connect with the landscape, and I failed. But its banal thoughts, trivial things and repetitive steps are not nothing, they are archived here.
我應該如何收藏對於一地的無感之情？
面對眼前壯闊的景觀，我卻什麼也感受不到。經歷了一連串的自我懷疑後，放棄強迫自己與此地建立連結，而去重新審視這段流離且被錯置的經驗。其實我所經歷的一切並非一無所有，所有在其中所產生微不足道的想法、雞毛蒜皮的小事以及不斷重複的步伐都是值得被收藏於此的。
Everyday is a practice
Feeling nothing, keep walking
There are always voids in landscape
There is always space for me to feel
I felt nothing.
What did I feel when I felt nothing?
Actually it’s not nothing.
the banal thoughts that came into my head
the trivial things that happened to me
the repetitive steps that I walked
that’s what I felt
It is beautiful but it is not somewhere that I belong to
How do I archive the landscape making me feel nothing?
How do I archive the feeling of nothingness?
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The work is part of the group exhibition "Testimony from the Rocks" of Art, Space+Nature postgraduate students in An Lanntair, Stornaway
Testimony From The Rocks is an exhibition of responses to both the physical and cultural landscape of the Western Isles, following a period of study undertaken last year. The work, by fourteen international students, ranges across a variety of media including film, sculpture and installation.
photo credit/ Ana Cecilia Parrodi Anaya, Claire Burnett, Hsin Shyu
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