Ripple — JoyTseng

Ripple - 2022 RCA Graduation work

︎︎︎ Series Work - Joy and New River

Material: Blender, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, GarageBand.
Duration: 06:51

︎Watch Here: https://youtu.be/qPcRbm-huMw

In such a messy world. It's easy to hate someone, but it's hard to forgive someone.What is tolerance, why do we have to be tolerant, and how to do it?
New River gave me answers.

Joy and New River series of illustrations record the bits and pieces I know about the New River.
The Ripple animation shows what I found to be the answer to forgiveness.

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We see the world through a filter with a color unique to each of us, giving the persistent illusion of separation from others. Red light and green light belong to the bright. The left hand and right hand belong to me. We are reflections on the water, only temporarily separated by the ripples, but we are always one. Tolerance from oneness is the deepest and warmest, just like a gentle river.

I used to be limited by my filter color. I was angry with those who do not cherish the New River. However, as my relationship with the river developed, I found the limitation of my vision. There are many things I can't see. I was touched by the river’s deep tolerance for all people. This acceptance and love gave me the answer of tolerance.

About Ripple

In the animation Ripple I discuss tolerance base on the concept of oneness, which dispels our illusion of separation and reintroduces us to the inseparability of our relationships. Using the refraction of light in a prism as a metaphor, I tell a story about forgiveness and describe the process of how we form each other in our collective memory.

My process of learning tolerance happens in the context of the New River, a 409 year-old artificial river in Islington, used to provide clean drinking water to Londoners since the 16th century. Parts one and two of the animation tell stories derived from the river’s history. Parts three and four tell stories derived from my experience of walking along the river.

The animation is structured as a dream, with the four layers of the dream dividing it into four parts. As the dream goes deeper, the understanding of oneness becomes clearer.