'Rainbow Umbrella' is a series exploring and reconstructing our original perception, where the experience is unexplainable under a specific context. This perception is rooted in us from birth and helps us to explore the world. But for adults, it is difficult to recall the experience before the age of 3, called Childhood Amnesia. This is because infancy relies heavily on non-verbal memory, which changes to a form of memory encoding once the child can speak.
Before the arrival of this period, babies adapt to society in a unique approach by using their eyes, ears, hands and other senses—obsession with objects of different materials, the experience of visual height difference. From here, I wonder how this primitive behavior creates a dialogue with the external context. Can the image awake this ability? And how the viewer would respond to this constructed scene with related memories?
Inspired by the baby's daily behavior and early educational activities, I set up daily scenes in stage photography. By rearranging and stacking objects to present quantifiable dimensions in the baby's visual environment, and corresponding to behavioral ability, I try to retrieve forgotten memories and childhood fantasies.
