New Contemporary: Doodle on A National Treasure

Doodles on National Treasure
-An Innovation on Scroll Paining Format & Its Analogue Player-

Proposed on 14th February, 2010
Attn: New Contemporary

Proposed by Naomi Uchida
Student at MA Fine Art course
Camberwell Collage of Arts, University of the Arts London


Introduction

The feature of scroll painting is similar to our past-present-future sequences in some ways. If we suppose the area we are seeing is the present, the time travels by unrolling the future on the left side while the past scrolls up the right side. In this project, I’m planning to make a “roll-playing” game in which the “out of sight” areas take some important role. The maize will be painted the delicately hand copied Japanese national treasures, Chojyu-Jinbutsu-Giga.

Ruining (Enhancing) tradition with my doodles (contemporary drawings) is the main purpose of this project— this does not mean any denial, neither in tradition or in contemporary, at all: As a matter of fact, “handmade”, “manual control” and “attendance of audiences” are essential to this project while the technology is highly advanced in our time. I will be greatly happy if the players enjoy the warmth of handmade products and much direct manipulation feeling of analogue games. All game players will have the honour to sign their name on this new attempt at where they achieved. The completed scroll painting will be placed in the wood box named “Game Winding Machine” especially designed for this painting which is designed by Japanese (me!).


Specification : Revision Number 00 as of 14th Feb. 2010

Specification of Handy Game Winding Machine – or “Doodle Player” as of 14th
February, 2010 by Naomi Uchida
a = 270mm, a’= 310mm, b=450mm, c=150mm
Gross Weight: 5 kgs

A winding handle and a cylinder View from the top

How to Play

Following instruction and game sheet will be provided to the players (voluntary audiences) before the game.

Followings are photos from the current test version (7cmx800cm):

Japanese scroll paintings progress from right to left.
You will come across diverging points shown as above during the game
Please select just one track with no reason.
Each scene may or may not suggest you the right track

Example 1: a murder case…?

Example 2: a religious cult…?

All game players will have the honour to sign their name on this new attempt painting at where they achieved! (Again, above 4 pictures are the photos from the current test version.)




The hand copies for the final version are getting ready. They are now just waiting for good doodles. Both painting and winding machine are ready by the end of March, 2010.


Sample doodles







Reference For Further Understanding

===Reference For Further Understanding===
I'm reructant to provide Wkikipedia URL which is sometimes regarded as non-academic source. However, this is the most detailed information in English about Chojyu-Jinbutsu-Giga. I hope my trial on this doodle project will contribute for gaining more attantion for Japanese national treasure...!

Japanese National Treasure. Choju-Jinbutsu-giga. Wikipedia [Online Information] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B3%A5%E7%8D%A3%E4%BA%BA%E7%89%A9%E6%88%AF%E7%94%BB [Accessed on 14 th February, 2010]