Project Log 3 – Frame

I’ve been sorting through the stories I’ve heard over the last few days and I’ve realised I can’t put all of them in my work. I can only put my own experiences in my work because I know what it’s like. I couldn’t accurately express other people’s experiences. So in the end I chose to make this piece of story telling as my experience and understanding of growing up.

As I said before, I wanted to build two spaces throughout the piece, the space before and after growing up, and the space after growing up is divided into two stages, the escape stage and the stage after choosing to face it.

This structure is a true representation of my experience and although it is based on my experience to produce this audio, I still hope that this audio will resonate with you.

Let’s start with the logical line of this story. The protagonist starts out sleeping in a warm space filled with liquid. This space is beautiful，it means childhood. The protagonist is awakened again and again by people who want him to listen to some voices, but he chooses to avoid them until they are impossible to ignore. He finally hears the voices, confronts them and chooses to wake up to a new world.

I chose to use the dream form as the basis for the whole piece. The childhood stage is a beautiful dream in the audio, in reality for those who grow up childhood holds many unrealistic but beautiful dreams for us. In the space of growing up, the escape phase, I chose to use a state of nightmare to create this piece. I have a state when I am dreaming, a state when I realise I am dreaming and I want to wake up but I can’t. Every time I open my eyes I go back to the same place, I think I’m awake, only to find out the next second that I’m still in the dream, and this is a state where I have nightmares that will cycle several times before I’m completely awake. It’s hard to wake up in a dream over and over again, but after a few times you find you get used to it and you’re not shocked or surprised, although you still try to struggle. I think the state of escapism is very similar to the state of nightmares, so that’s the way I chose to go. At the end we wake up and enter another world, but I hope that everyone who grows up will still remember the dreams of their childhood and will still have the same original intention they had at the beginning. Of course this is just a good wish, so in the end I actually hope that the experience is a beautiful dream.