Manifesto Update

The Eye Line of Mind

Living in a big city allows us to have a better quality of life and to have more opportunities to do things. However, as the city grows, the more things happen and many of them wants our attention, therefore they start to compete each other for example, commercial signs, street signs and people. When there is a lot of things happen at the some time, our mind is pulled in to many direction and makes us feel distracted and overwhelmed.

A lot of people who lives in the city become materialists, with all the things that make their lives more convenient or brand name stuffs that allow them to have better appearance, which they become adhere to those.

Zen Buddhism beliefs that in order to be free from suffer is to reach the state of awakening by meditation, which we just simply holding attention on something can make our mind starts to settle down and become still. When our mind become peaceful, we start to aware of our presence, observe the surroundings and understand the rule of nature that everything is constantly changing, therefore, nothing is permanent.

Hong Kong is considered to be a chaotic city, where there are so many things happen at the same time, it needs to be extremely outstanding in order to get attention. And together with Hogarth’s theory of Beauty, that our eyes pursue the curvy lines, can attracts our attention on an object in such a cluttered atmosphere.

The Eye Line of Mind brought a new method of experiencing the idea of still mind and the notion of impermanence as people can still continue on their daily life. The idea of still mind is brought by our attention that is attracted by the operation of a robot arm. And the idea of impermanence will be recognized through the architecture that is always changing and the irregular shape of the material used.