P4 Theater's record of my perspective.
01＃
Last summer, it was the last few days in a dress. At the same time, I went for the first time to the P4 Theater studio near Thongnan, with a bit of charade. Why go to Changping, a long way away from home (in the Chaoyang region) because, on the bean petals, the photographer Sauhua personally believed in the introduction of my "Real Image" project and was attracted to want to experience a "real".
When I saw their recruitment information, which included photographers and site presentations, I felt that they were unique - photographers were from the United States and studied psychological education; photo studio P4 Theater was designed as a venue that was too beautiful; in the narrative language, it was a clearly defined, mission-oriented and artistic project.
Enough of the popular "daily new" "private room" and photography type of me in the bean petals, hoping for a lot of style pictures, but the ghost gave the cameraman Shao Wah's "other kind" invitation to film and took the risk quietly.
02＃
Forty minutes in the car and the first time P4 Theater saw Sauhua, it was not thought that there would be so many wonderful fates later. I was skinny and had a very low depression in my life. At other times, they come to a strange place and face a long, serious and polite stranger. Instead, a young girl, full of frustration and sadness, became bluffing and spoke to him about many "mature" perspectives. Talk like a boss, psycho, philosophy, Povova. He listens.
Later, I used an afternoon to look at the flow colours of heavy rain and fallows on the top of transparency on the farm, and I liked to hear the rain spots impact on the ground. The other side said that the description was beautiful, and the skylight of P4 Theater could see it, and if it rains, you could come and see it. He may have asked what my happiness was, and I said it was childhood at aunt's house and summer at the door with green beans. And Sauhua smiles, and his eyes bend, full of approvals. I'm just dropping my guard.
A lot of talk, I can't tell you how moved that was. He seems to know everything about me. We did not discuss how to make a good shot, what style to make, what to finish, what to do, what to do with it, what to do with it, what to do with realism, a psychological communication of life expression, and only between two people. At this point, I sort of understand what Sauval is looking for, the meaning of "two-person drama" in the Real Image concept and the warm background of P4 Theater's existence as a dream home.
03＃
And then I followed him to the stage of the theater and pulled the curtain in the dark, the small table of tea, the red of fresh roses, the center of which was a lighted lamp, a chair under the round brightest of the umbrella, and a retrodden big box camera. On the opposite side, Sauhua was very serious at this time, and I sat in my chair and looked at him across the lens. And he began to recite the narratives of dreams, the floating language, and in the meditation, and I saw a little self with my eyes closed, and I held myself in my arms. The significance of records should also be heard.
Then me and Sauhua continued to work together on the next human sketch, including this photo shoot, with good results. Two of the photos were also led by him and benefited a lot. "Real Image" not only reversed my stereotypes, but also my own. I saw a picture of me, not a picture full of glossy filters, but a retrograde image. There's a complex emotional expression in the expression of "I" and the body is filled with the energy of youth. In a picture, we can even see pink tailbones, cast a shadow or a cat's profile, which gives me tears. I think it's beautiful that there is a place in this world, a place where people collide with people and have the opportunity to record their advancement!
The "drama show" that you need when you're doing the third sketch on the human body is actually the maximization of a person's self-presentation, the courage to mobilize his body, to exercise, to show, even like the original ape. Urban pressure has disappeared, emotional silt has faded and returned to me with the opportunity to experience, release and heal on stage through participation in P4 Theater's "Real Image" project. That passage, inscribed in the image, also became a unique collection in my life.
04＃
I am a participant in the P4 Theater "Real Image" project, 0015, who is well aware of the non-profit and pro bono nature of the people who have come to participate and to support them in silence. "Wondly" and "false" are the core of the resistance on the idealist path of Sauhua and small studio partners. What I can see is the Nobuya place, the fine design, the stage, the studio, the bookcase, the hard-working ones who worked to raise 1,000 participants to the Real Image project. (They say they do not want to finish the film for 30 years... with money) For participants in the experience project, the necessary price is charged, although the actual cost is much higher, to allow participants to open their inner doors with a ticket and to avoid imprudentness and pigeon-laying and to treat each other seriously.
As an experiential 0015 of the Real Image project, I eventually joined P4 Theater, a bright and arduous studio, to speak out for their presence and to inform and plan for their existence. I believe that this kind of commitment, and the firmness of all those who have followed me since then, is expressed in different ways. Those who would like to read this article to come to the P4 Theater in Beijing to see what we're doing and to get some energy, regardless of whether you like to take pictures, get to art or not.
"I'm watching."