I was inspired by Pierre Sernet's work 'One'.
In the series “One”, often referred to as his “Guerrilla Tea” series, he presents photographs in which randomly selected guests, from a variety of cultural worlds and backgrounds, are invited and shown sharing a bowl of Tea.
Utilizing a stylized Japanese Tea Room in the shape of a cube, in which he performs traditional Tea ceremonies, Sernet plays on the juxtaposition of out of context and apparently incompatible cultures or environments.
With the cube being used as a conceptual space, Sernet invites viewers to place their own set of cultural, spiritual, religious or philosophical values within it.
The purpose is to have audiences question the cube’s opposition or similarities to the diverse environment in which it is placed and have viewers see each of these spaces in a new and different way, ultimately showing that these seemingly different and incompatible worlds are in fact based on similar universal values that can enable seemingly different worlds to cohabit together.
I think the idea of this conceptual space can also be used to express my idea of comfort zone:
A comfort zone is also a kind of boundary, a space that people themselves have framed within their mind. People who stay in their comfort zone for a long time lose the ability to perceive new things in the outside world and are trapped in a familiar zone that has been framed. However, there is no real barrier between the frames, and it is up to people to decide whether or not to step out of their comfort zone.
According to this, I decided to make a conceptual space. I looked for some other artworks about conceptual space.
Illustration by Angela D Collet
Think outside of the box. All that limits you is an illusion. Comfort zone is such a kind of box that you create in your mind.
It is a work I saw on the exhbition in Tokey Palace when I went to paris. It consists of several cubes fixed to the wall, and as you walk around it, it is sometimes a cube and sometimes a rectangle. The space is constantly changing as the viewing angle changes.
The Rubber House is a small pavilion, completely made out of rubber. The house can be entered, one person at a time, to retreat from the outside and to find oneself again. So the conceptual space can be a place to find the real self.
I also looked for some other visual references on pinterest:
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