Mobile Research Station No. 1

Balloon  Project

The idea for the Balloon Project came from the specific location of Berlin Sculpture Park,

were the wall used to separate between west and east ,freedom and “capture”.

My work was done  with  Helium Balloons.
A still camera and a GPS  was connected to two big  yellow  helium balloons flying over the park.

The floating camera took , every minute ,one image,from up to down ,of the park.

My interest was to catch the different paths,people left crossing  the park.

The GPS record constantly  the vanishing paths, the balloons left at sky.

In the park , i  documented the balloon, and the handle from  two aspects.

First images and videos from down to up,of the balloons flying,especially in relation to the surrounding like  trees or buildings.

Second, the handle  which was the end of a 35 meter long rope, in relation to different objects in the park.

The Balloons project is  about personal relationship in freedom prism.

I would like to evoke questions related to the balance of freedom and “capture” in personal relationship.
Why people choose to loose their personal freedom for having personal relationship?
What people earn in relationship,which make them, give up on their own freedom?
What avoid people to fulfill their inherent  freedom?
People speak about their obligations, responsibilities, engagements,which are all true,
But in a way ,they are all different kinds of barrier ,obstacles which avoid them from maximize a basic need of  freedom.

The connected two balloons ,flying wherever the wind take them,are a metaphor for freedom.

Looking from above of past life paths, planing a brighten future.

The handle which was hold by different objects in the park,

played as a metaphor for different “captures”  of human life, obligations which people put themselves into,

in order to preserve constant steady relationship.

The research project will go on in the Slade-UCL -London sky.