「高牆上的旁觀者 — 俯視理性思維和感性直覺的鬥爭」 設計的行為即是創造的行為,人類是感性與理性兼備的動物,進行創造的過程當中,更需要這兩種天性的巧妙配合。每一次的舞台設計創作都是一系列理性與感性的戰鬥,從衝撞中獲得新的火花,並在疏通和相互妥協中達到平衡,然後必須經過思想磨合的歷程,最終才能取得陰陽調和的平衡點。 『舞台設計』是藝術創作也是設計行為,概念的發展和實踐,除了運用理性思維推演,也應該以一種更為感性的邏輯去感受。本篇創作報告以愛情作為架構,將屬於一個舞台設計者的創作愛情觀,導入設計的每一個階段當中。2006年參與戲劇《Dinner With Friends》和舞蹈作品《莊嚴的笑話》的舞台設計,如同經歷兩段充滿甜美激情與苦澀掙扎的戀情。將它們誠實地曝曬在陽光底下,作為一個記錄、一個自省,以及一場隱藏在創作者腦內,理性與感性血腥鬥爭的側寫。 把設計比做愛情,並沒有甚麼創建理論的遠大企圖,充其量,就是讓我們從創作的過程當中,將自己抽離出來,站在某個高度上,俯視自己。就方法而言,並不在強調設計方法一般性和技術性的問題,而是讓自己如同坐在高牆上的旁觀者一般,觀察『舞台設計行為』,在思索與轉變當中,它所呈現出來的不同姿態和表情。
「A Bystander Sitting on the Wall」- To Survey the Battles between Rational Thoughts and Perceptual Instincts. Designing is a deed of creating. Human is a sort of animal which combines with reason and emotions. In the process of creating, we need to use these two instincts artfully. It will be a series of battle between reason and percept every time we design a set. Herewith we get sparks in thoughts impact, and find a point for balance in compromise. And then, after a course of struggle, we can reach the compositional destinations commendably. Set Design is art, and it is devising also. Except for deducing in a very logical way, we should feel it directly with our emotions during developing or practicing concepts . This study is going to put the compositional philosophies of a designer and the whole process of setting design into a writing framework what bases on “LOVE”. Participating in set design for 《Dinner With Friends》and《A Dignified Joke 》 in 2006, are just like two passional affairs of love which filled with sweet enthusiasm and violent sufferings for me. By spreading them out under the sunshine, I regard them as a recording, an introspecting, and a reflection of the battles proceeded in my brain. Comparing Set Design to Love doesn’t have too much great theoretical attempts. At best we can only drag ourselves out to a higher psychic position, to survey every works that we have done and every thoughts that we have made. As far as the method is concerned, I am not trying to emphasize the general or technical problems of setting design methods. Yet I turn myself into a bystander who sitting on a notional high wall to observe the actions of Design and different expressions or gestures it shows out, while the thoughts are brought to another way.