Huge object by Qian He

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A new creature that combines flowers with octopuses

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🔷Unit1: What is the source of human fear？

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Source of Inspiration

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I was terrified but interested by huge objects

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What people are afraid to see？

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I use the hourglass, the heart and the infusion bottle to express people's fear of the passage of time.

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The growth and withering of plants symbolise the fear of death.

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These fears change into bonds of thought when humans have nightmares, and from here giant things are born.

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Huge object born in the human heart.

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The act of touching the snake in the 'invisible box' is a metaphor for the frightening unknown.

Fear comes from the unknown.

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The “Supernatural Horror in Literature” opens up with the most defining sentence of Lovecraft’s work: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and
strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” The ability to formalize the fear of the unknown into a literary concept is his greatest achievement. Even the way he structures the argument is attractive; that among all the fears imaginable the fear of the unknown assumes a prominent position and in turn fear is superior to all other emotions. It seems now that all Lovecraft did was to simply discover the principal human emotion.
He was aware that not only the intensity of fear, but also its ancient origin is exceptional; it has been with mankind from the very beginning. In Lovecraft’s interpretation this means a timespan of countless aeons. If the fear of the unknown is extremely old and deeply rooted in our subconscious minds and instincts, so must be the unknown itself as it requires an ignorant perceiver as a foil, one whose judgement turns the objective into the subjective.

^{LL, M.J.O. (2020)}^{H. P. Lovecraft’s Fear of the Unknown and Unimaginable}^{. dissertation. Available at: https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/123285/130293894.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (Accessed: 15 December 2022).}

The huge object can be used as a visual image for my work (As a metaphor for what is being expressed）

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When I asked people around me, 55 percent thought they were scared by giant creatures, another 10 percent thought they were excited by giant creatures, and the remaining 35 percent didn't think they were in any situation.
Conclusion: The phenomenon of megaphobia is not common, but for most people, the visual impact of megaphobia can make people's emotions amplified.
Inspiration: Huge objects can be used as a visual image of my project, and the comparison between the size of huge objects and people can also reflect the conflict between humans and other species.

Cthulhu Mythos

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A very famous image of a huge monster.

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I generalize based on 'sources of fear' and illustrate with images.

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🔷Unit 2

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Cthulhu Mythos

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The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. The name "Cthulhu" derives from the central creature in Lovecraft's seminal short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
^{Lovecraft, H.P. (2005). Tales (2nd ed.). New York: Library of America. ISBN 1931082723. OCLC 56068806.}

Collection: Natural History Museum

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Marine biological display area

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Step 1: I started looking for the relationship between huge creatures and real life

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Blue whales are the largest living creatures in the world.

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Conclusion：I noticed that huge monsters often appeared as sea creatures.(ocean issues)

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Since people's understanding of the deep sea is not rich enough, especially in the 19th century, people's scientific and technological progress, more and more exploration of the ocean, but it is still difficult to conquer the ocean, so there are often legends about the giant sea monster.

1. Loch Ness Monster

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affectionately known as Nessie, is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water. Popular interest and belief in the creature has varied since it was brought to worldwide attention in 1933. Evidence of its existence is anecdotal, with a number of disputed photographs and sonar readings.

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Step 2: The legend of the giant creature

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2. Kraken

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The kraken is a legendary sea monster of enormous size said to appear off the coasts of Norway.
Montfort proposed that ten British warships that had mysteriously disappeared one night in 1782 must have been attacked and sunk by giant octopuses. Many of his sources for the "kraken octopus" probably described the very real giant squid, Architeuthis, proven to exist in 1857.

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Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni

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Bule whales (Balaenoptera musculus)

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Blue whales are Marine mammals belonging to the small order baleen whales and are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth.
Until the early 20th century, blue whales were abundant in almost every ocean on Earth. They were hunted almost to extinction by whalers until the International Whaling Commission began conserving them in 1966 and their numbers gradually recovered. In 2018, the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the blue whale as endangered. Today, blue whales still face many threats from humans, such as ship strikes, environmental pollution, ocean sound pollution, and climate change.

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Sounds made by blue whales

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3. Cthulhu

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Monster in the image of an octopus

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Final

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The commercial value of blue whales has led to their killing by humans.

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At first it was difficult for humans to hunt blue whales because of their size and speed. But by the mid-19th century, catapulting harpoons had been invented to facilitate whaling. Whaling peaked in 1931-32, when 30,000 blue whales were killed. Blue whales around the Antarctic have been particularly affected by whaling, with an estimated 350,000 to 360,000 whales killed there in the first half of the 20th century.

‘Octopus roaming’

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Octopus in a rainy human building

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Octopus in the deep sea

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Anthropocentrism

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How do Scientists find Giant squid

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What harm do humans do to whales?

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1. Whale Hunting
2 Ship Collision
3. Waste water discharge
4. Global warming

The danger of whale extinction to humans.

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Japan still kills whales. Once whales become extinct, the number of fish and shrimp in the ocean will increase, and they rely on phytoplankton as food. The oxygen produced by Marine phytoplankton accounts for 70% of the global oxygen source. Once the fish flood, the decrease of phytoplankton may lead to a global disaster event.

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Humans kill whales for economic gain. And in the process of human industrialization, industrial wastewater is discharged into the sea. Carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming, sea levels rise, and Marine biosecurity is endangered... It will also affect the lives of other species in order to produce and develop.

Human fear of sea monsters stems from the inability to conquer and control the sea.

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Reflect

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1 Coral bleaching

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The leading cause of coral bleaching is rising ocean temperature due to climate change.

Loss of species diversity

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Coral bleaching events and the subsequent loss of coral coverage often result in the decline of fish diversity. The loss of diversity and abundance in herbivorous fish particularly affect coral reef ecosystems. As mass bleaching events occur more frequently, fish populations will continue to homogenize. Smaller and more specialized fish species that fill particular ecological niches that are crucial for coral health are replaced by more generalized species.

Bleached coral

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Healthy coral

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Endangered Marine life

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References

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De-anthropocentrism

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Seeking biological symbiosis

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Human's felling of trees interferes with nature and leads to the production of matsutake. However, matsutake cannot be farmed and is the product of anthropocentrism. Under the influence of capitalism, matsutake forms a complete commercial chain and is sold at a high price.

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focuses on matsutake and explores what Qing describes as the spread of ecological degradation and economic instability in the 21st century, and the end of capitalist progress.

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Amid escalating ecological destruction, the multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway proposes new ways to reconfigure our relationship with the Earth and all its inhabitants. She avoids calling our current era the Anthropocene, preferring instead to conceptualize it as what she calls Chthulucene, because it is a more appropriate and comprehensive description of our age, in which humans and non-humans are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. Haraway explains that Chthulucene needs to be symbiotic or with symbiosis, not automatically poetic or self-creative. Learning to live and die together on a damaged planet will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that provides the means to build a more livable future.

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Staying with the Trouble

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The Mushrooms at the End of the World

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At the end of the book, the author writes a speculative fiction. The story is about a baby named camille, who goes through five generations of humans in a new way. It takes place in an apocalyptic setting where each new human has to combine with another species to coexist.

2 Spotted seal

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Spotted seal
Hunt，Climate change, habitat loss and Marine debris are taking their toll

3 Shortfin mako shark

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Hunting and fishing have led to the rapid decline of shortfin mafo sharks

4 Green sawfish

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the species is listed as critically endangered because of its long beak, which easily gets tangled in industrial fishing nets.

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For humans, apart from visual impact, the strong emotion towards giant animals also comes from ancestral genes. While humans fear giant animals, they also try to conquer them. As early as 1995 Nobel Prize winner paul crutzen proposed that "the main geological force shaping the earth is no longer rivers, ice or wind, but human beings. In 1952, the ics declared that the Earth had entered the Anthropocene Period, and that the negative effects of human beings on the planet were irreversible. Rising sea levels due to carbon dioxide emissions, coral bleaching, and practical problems were proving that humans could not coexist with living things. In contrast, species extinction would affect human society. As danny j haraway said, "Today the earth is full of asylum seekers, but there is no refuge", species extinction is a disaster for all living things, but most of the time, human beings always put themselves in a position to be protected, which is worth reflecting on. Therefore, I want to propose that when the future giant appears in human society, How do we get along?

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A lot of Marine life is endangered by human economic activities, just like coral bleaching events, humans harm the ocean, Marine species extinction, biodiversity reduction. It's not just the damage to these species, but also the impact of reduced biodiversity on human life. If the food chain and agricultural production are damaged and the economy is affected, human beings may also face the shortage of food, medicine and other resources, which may be accompanied by the spread of diseases and eventually have to face unprecedented human crisis.

As Donna J Haraway said, the world is full of asylum seekers, but there are no sanctuaries.

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Visual reference

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Artist

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Bibliography

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Ucl (2022) Blaschka glass models of invertebrates, UCL CULTURE. Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/grant-museum-zoology/blaschka-glass-models-invertebrates (Accessed: 15 Apr 2023).
Anthropocentrism (no date) Anthropocentrism - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/anthropocentrism (Accessed: 13 May 2023).
Plautius and PLAUTIUS, C. (1970) Nova Typis Transacta Navigatio. Novi orbis indiae occidentalis...Authore Honorio philopono by Caspar Plautius on Martayan Lan, Martayan Lan. Available at: https://www.martayanlan.com/pages/books/4838/caspar-plautius/nova-typis-transacta-navigatio-novi-orbis-indiae-occidentalis-authore-honorio-philopono (Accessed: 15 Apr 2023).
Haraway, D.J. (2016) Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press.
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LL, M.J.O. (2020) H. P. Lovecraft’s Fear of the Unknown and Unimaginable. dissertation. Available at: https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/123285/130293894.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (Accessed: 15 December 2022).

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possible versions of my outcome

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M.K.Čiurlionis

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In this work, the 'mountain' becomes a giant object with eyes, and the reflection of the water resembles 'tears', giving the 、huge object human emotion.
_{^{Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe.}}

Ernst Steiner

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This surrealist work uses imaginary creatures to form huge objects, and the use of geometric shapes gives the image a sense of 'circularity' and 'regularity'.
_{^{Cypresses stand sentinel in sacred groves and tangled branches braid into cruciform Trees of Life.}}

Joseph Mallord William Turner

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_{^{Although this unfinished painting has come to be known as}}_{^{Sunrise with Sea Monsters}}_{^{, the obscure pink shape at the lower centre of the canvas probably depicts fish; indeed a red and white float and part of a net can be seen nearby.}}

David Zink Yi, “Octopus.”

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Old diary

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Inspired by Reader Group

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During the reader group, we went to bishopsgate institute, where the staff showed us a lot of old things about the former London, including maps of the former London, many versions of guidebooks and so on. However, I was most interested in the old diaries about the former residents. Although some people's diaries are just simple records, I think reading these ancient diaries can make my method more close to the life of that era, with a sense of reality. Therefore, I want to use the form of diary novels to complete the story of the main project.

Critical Position：Author

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As the author, I will be writing a diary novel to discuss "how humans coexist with huge rganism in an apocalyptic setting," using huge organism to refer to creatures that are on the verge of extinction. From the perspective of an ordinary person in the future, I will describe the process from people's first contact with "huge organism" to conflict and mutual understanding, and finally to the establishment of shelter and the formation of "symbiosis".
Purpose: The phenomenon of biological extinction cannot be reversed, if in the future, when we face a global nature crisis, anthropocentrism can be changed to create a common refuge and symbiotic relationship.

The Diary of Anne Frank

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Journal Novel

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The journal novel is a unique form of the novel genre, which takes the form of diary as the basic structure of the novel. This kind of novel mostly uses the first person in the way of narration. It narrates events, develops plots and portrays characters in the way that the protagonist sees, hears and feels.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. He was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

The Raven

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POE's short stories are fragments, which can bring people a lot of imagination. Besides, his novels are delicate and have a sense of reality.

Writing style reference

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Both of these two picture books have adopted the method of combining illustrations and photos, and the picture books combined with the cartoon diary made me feel very real, as if I had experienced the stories described by the author together.
Another book, Alice by suzy lee, also combines illustration and painting, but she chooses some pictures that look a little scary, giving the story a sense of absurdity and cinema.

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Butterflies and octopuses coexist

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Biological design

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ceramics

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Based on the research direction of my main project, I first attempted to create a symbiotic organism of flowers and octopuses using ceramics. But there are some difficulties in making details, as small parts are prone to breakage.

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In the second creation, I created a paradise about megafauna from a human perspective. It's hard for me to make them big with ceramic, so I can only make smaller objects to reflect "big". However, the item is too small, coloring and firing out of the color is difficult to control. Although this experiment made me think that ceramics was not a suitable way to continue the output of my main project, it gave me inspiration for the story of the project.

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new career design

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The main expression of the story

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My story mainly involves the fact that in the future, driven by economic factors, hunting and trafficking have reduced the number of biological species. In order to maintain survival, a new profession has emerged, which is called a biological detector. The destruction of ecology by human beings has, by chance, led to the emergence of new giant life forms in the world. Humans have helped them build a paradise in the name of "conservation", and even the dreaded megafauna is not immune to some people wanting to profit financially from it. To reflect, under the anthropocentrism background, human beings to other life inequality.

screen printing

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project main idea

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The Mushroom at the End of the World is a good proof of this point. This book tells the story of the plant that Matsutake grows accidentally due to human logging of forest trees, and Matsutake cannot be artificially raised, which is very precious. Therefore, humans see its economic value and form an industrial chain that can generate high income.Just like endangered creatures today, not only are their natural environments destroyed, but they are also threatened by being hunted and sold.
In light of this, I began to think about a future in which biodiversity continues to decline, when giant creatures like matsutake suddenly appear in the human world. How will humans coexist with giant creatures driven by a society that puts economic interests first?

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In order to make readers more involved in the story, I will try to add some photos of real life into the picture. So this picture book is a combination of photos and illustrations, giving the whole picture book style a sense of realism, which I think is a good way of presentation.

Japan discharged nuclear waste water into the ocean

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Bishopsgate Institute

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