| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中科技大學 === 商業設計系碩士班 === 105 === Over a century has passed since Taichung Railway Station was erected during the Japanese colonial era. Along with the Phase One completion of the Taichung Metropolitan Railway Elevation Project and the opening of a new station, this century-strong station will soon retire and transform into a railway museum. Meanwhile, Taichung''s urban development will no longer be hindered and polarized by a dissecting railway. The ever-familiar and customary scenes, however, will continue to play out at the station, whether it is at-grade or overhead. The station, a vessel filled with "sorrows" and a witness of reunions and farewells, embodies the bitterness, sweetness and all the other spices of life. This "present continuous tense" of the future also once existed as a "past tense", its lingering sentiments and indescribable emotions turning into creative inspirations.
The comings and goings, the passers-by, the relationships, the time and space..., they seem to impart the positive and negative energy of the cosmos as advanced by Laozi. Hence, the author borrows from the aesthetics and philosophy of Dao De Jing to render Taichung Railway''s changeover between old and new and the "metaphors" implied in the photographs, which capture through the lens the external forms as well as the internal philosophy being conveyed. Furthermore, antonyms from Dao De Jing are used as the basic composition of the images to articulate opposing yet non-contradictory ideas like solid and empty, being and nothingness. The photography assumes a perspective underpinned by the ideas of "natural, genuine, modest and ineffable" and portrays the philosophy of being between human and railway in a natural manner, through a journey of primordial return shifting from dynamic, static, passing through to distant and then inverse.
The Documentary Photography for Taichung Elevated Railway infuses the natural philosophy of Laozi. Rather than esoteric zen-like impressions, the works seek to present the most modest and realistic vignette of the many faces of daily life and the spirit of natural harmony. They aim to give the viewer a feel of Laozi and a philosophy close to Dao De Jing, while presenting the well-rounded beauty between ancient wisdom of the East and modern aesthetics in photography.
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