Is The Forest Touching You?

When it is quiet, settled and invisible, how do we feel with the forest? 

Our culture and geographical origins have socialised and educated us to develop individual way of perceiving our surroundings. If we change the normal method of perception, will the forest stay the same to us? 

“Perception is social, or shared experience, as well as an individual one.“ (Rodaway, 1994)

當日常所仰賴的視覺被剝奪之時，我們該如何去感受一片森林？

我們並非與生俱來就是如此地去感受周遭環境，而是由我們所生長的地理環境與文化背景所培養出來的。而當我們被迫去改變體驗環境的方法之時，同樣的森林對我們來說是否還會是一樣的？

“Perception is social, or shared experience, as well as an individual one.“ (Rodaway, 1994)

The work focuses on the haptic experience of the forest, Blackwood of Rannoch.

The experience is delivered through the interior weather created by high humidity of the space. Visitors sense the place not with their eyes, but with their skin, ears and noses. They settle with the place, then feel the forest touching them with the drip dropping sound and fresh smell of the forest.

當人們進入此件作品之時，大多會因為一片漆黑而感到疑惑或是恐慌，但沈靜下來後，可漸漸感受以來自森林的濕氣所構成的室內氣候氛圍，除了觸覺感受之外，一滴滴清脆的水滴墜落的聲音與混雜著潮濕與腐敗的植物氣味也暗示著水氣在此件作品中的份量。

Special thanks to Harmony for the amazing documentation ♥️

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