Hsieh’s Impulsive Typology


  • Photographer
    Chia-Ying Hsieh
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016/04/22
  • Technical Info
    wet-plate photography

This is a piece of reviewing the behavior of impulsive shopping by sharing one’s collections.

Story

This is a piece of reviewing the behavior of impulsive shopping by sharing one’s collections.
Why did I buy it? Each item is placed at a specific position in the artist’s room. They are not necessarily necessities not do they have anything in common. They are put together only based on “boring little details”, which make the items so vitally attractive to the artist and burst out smiling just by starring at them. What exactly is it that touches so precisely to the core of the artist’s deepest weirdest interests and habits that intrigues a series of chemical reaction in the brain? Is the impulse of purchasing so powerfully contagious and can make one regardless of the outcome, that even the calmest person feels the urge to posse otherwise might live in regrets for the rest of their lives.
While arranging the display of items collected at different points of time, the artist felt like arranging the display of all kinds of emotions and sensations. The artist attempted to take the photos from the first person view, in order to look directly to the reason of what makes the items so desirable at the first place. By doing that, the audience can concentrate on the “details” which triggered the artist’s ration breakdown. Taking up wet plate techniques enable the artist to once again participate in a mental intercourse between these items. The translation of materials creates the distance, and allows the artist to review whether it’s passion, sensation or mental stutter.

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