An Air-dried Lemon in Field
According to observation, people judge the value of things by appearance just as much as or more than any other characteristics. As a designer, I pay close attention to the ways of expressing visual language. The language of expression is always inside the things themselves, because existence itself is also a kind of expressing. Meanwhile, things cannot be isolated from the space of existence. Because of the interference from space (also from the environment), things can no longer express themselves exactly. In this case, we can reference the theory about field from the famous French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. But there is nothing necessarily symbolic about the meaning of connections between using visual language to express objects and Pierre Bourdieu's theory about field. On the other hand, field is no doubt the necessary fact that designers should take into account when they start to work and observe. As John Berger's point of view about the ways of seeing, according to seeing, we are sure about ourselves because of exposure to our surroundings. Thus seeing, knowing and judging things through field is a necessary presupposition for designers to create or retell the visual language from things and objects.
The lemon which I bought four years ago has turned into an air-dried lemon already, but it was always by my side during my campus life. Also because of several changes of field that this lemon was in, I reconsidered its existence and value several times. This gave me a totally different understanding of it. At the same time, the air-dried lemon itself was also transferred to different types of expression to redefine its value of existence. An air-dried lemon, not an imposed subjective object. Three different fields led me to change my way of seeing the surroundings, and only then did I get used to paying attention to the air-dried lemon fragmentally. What remains unchanged is the fact that the air-dried lemon has its own character of existence. The result is that all kinds of different knowledge and judgments about the air-dried lemon are re-interpretations of its value of existence.
The lemon which I bought four years ago has turned into an air-dried lemon already, but it was always by my side during my campus life. Also because of several changes of field that this lemon was in, I reconsidered its existence and value several times. This gave me a totally different understanding of it. At the same time, the air-dried lemon itself was also transferred to different types of expression to redefine its value of existence. An air-dried lemon, not an imposed subjective object. Three different fields led me to change my way of seeing the surroundings, and only then did I get used to paying attention to the air-dried lemon fragmentally. What remains unchanged is the fact that the air-dried lemon has its own character of existence. The result is that all kinds of different knowledge and judgments about the air-dried lemon are re-interpretations of its value of existence.
