Sketch for Take Off
2016
text, inkjet print, color pencil, marker, paper
57"x42"
2016
text, inkjet print, color pencil, marker, paper
57"x42"
Take Off
2016
Rooster, Cat, Pig, Ostrich, Cow, Dog and Hen are getting into the Helmet Boat.
Pedestal part : A big low folding type of table. It looks like a small stage because of the hight.
Screen part : The image is like drifting water. The whirlpool causes dizziness. Many fragments drifting water look like unknown language piece or fossils appear and disappear.
Handle part : There are six handles. Each shape is a webbed hand and looks like a frog's. Removable.
Soil line : A circle line which evokes the earth surface or the earth's crust. Removable, and it recalls the earthquake.
The faces of the drivers : A face who sits on that seat appears on the shiny metal background. When the driver changes, the face also changes. Boat interacts with the controllers.
Space or the depth of the ocean : Complete darkness and expansion of shape and space. The six handles are connected to this space.
The center part : The white lit organic shape is the center of the control table. It looks like bacteria. The area is the origin of life.
Dog : Bow Wow! What the heck!! There is only a table at the center of the room! Is this really a flying vehicle?
Cow : No, no, this is not a table. This must be a stage. Looks like the auction stage when we are sold in auction. Moo..
Pig : Well.. I assume that this is the operation instrument! Although I am not sure if it works with the system in which six members pilot a boat at the same time, this is the brain part of this boat and it stays and occupies the center of the boat. Also this boat doesn't know which way is front or back. So this is the operation instrument!!
Dog : Doesn't it cause confusion if there are six operators? I think it is best if one person directs and rest of us just follow.. It will be trouble if we are in chaos while traveling in the sky.
Cat : I think this is just a future television. I remember my owner was always watching the television sitting on this kind of lower table and eating oranges. Meow. This helmet is not a vehicle but just a small theater room.
Ostrich : Look! The six cables from the six handles connect to the six holes. This is a screen which contacts to NEO-DRAGON CITY, and the brain mechanism controls this boat!!
Hen : Bok Bok, something moving on the screen!!
Rooster : OMG.. these are our faces?!
Cow : Do they indicate us to sit in the place where each face appears?
Cat : There is no face for the Hen..
Dog : Oh, then you don't have to operate, Hen. You can just sit in the passenger seat. You are so lucky!!
Pig : Okay, let's follow the Dragon City's vision. We don't know anything. We don't have anything to loose either. We just go forward. Oink..
Rooster : Like dog said, if we all operate at the same time, the boat may spin and collapse?
Pig : If everybody operates in the same way, there is no difference between one or six operators. We have to unite our minds together and act together. My friends, take charge of the right handle each of you!! There are fingers and wrists on these handles.
Touch the thumb with our call together.
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
GOGOGOGOGOOGOGGOGOGOGOGOGOOGGO..............
Hen : Bok Bok Bok!! The boat is floating!!! We are floating!!!! The boat is spinning but we are not?!?
Pig : Oink Oink!! This is what I expected! This is the technology which harness's the law of the universe !! Fantastic!!! Oink Oink!!
This is undoubtedly a vehicle of the legendary civilization, Dragon City!!! Congratulations my friends, we are leaving the polluted land!!
Cow : Moo.. we are floating.. Moo.. What should we do next? Can we come back to our land?
Rooster : Don't worry, cow. We will come back. We just found the hope!! Cock a doodle doo!!!Oh look! The vision like water is also moving now. Let's wait the next direction from them.
Ostrich : Don't you feel weird when you keep looking at this whirlpool? Huuum.. I understand now.. the operators are six but the vision is one. Literally our handles connect to each other... This is what the human cannot invent. Dragon City.. it must be an excellent civilization!! Ah, Thank You, God, Buddah, No no, Dragon!! Please take us to NEO-DRAGON CITY!!!
Pig : Oink Oink!?!? Look! The boat is fading away!?
Cow : Moo Moo!?! We are falling!!!!!!!
Hen : No, we are not falling! We are still flying! The boat became transparent! Bok Bok!! I haven't flown this high!!!
Dog : I have flown with my owner when we went to Guam. But I was in the cage and had no idea if I was flying or not. She told me that I flew though. It just made me suffer with the din and huge vibration for so long. This boat is so quiet, and the sky is so beautiful.. This is what the birds know?
Cat : Forget about your owner. They left us. Meow! A shape appears on the screen! What is this?? Meow Meow! Another one there!
Pig : Is it the language of Dragon City? Or the symbols? Oink.. That looks like a scale. This looks like a thunder... That must be a wing...
Rooster : Some look like broken pieces of the architecture too. They appear one after another. This vision makes me feel sad somehow. But at the same time, it is so beautiful.. I am fascinated by it.
Cow : Please!! No time to be fascinated!!! What's next?! Are we ok??
Ostrich : Calm down. Just wait for the direction. The vision is just moving randomly. When something unusual happens, that's the hint for us. Wait for the time.
All together : Oh!!!!!
Pig : All the fragments gather to the handle of cow!
Cow : Moo Moo Moo Moo!!! What should I do??!?
Cat : Pull yourself together! With our next call, You touch the middle finger of your handle. Do you follow me? The others don't change, just stay on the thumb.
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
Hen : Bok Bok!! The boat leans to the direction of cow! We succeeded to control the boat!!! We are geniuses!!!
Ostrich: No, we are not! Dragon City is the genius!! They must have amazing technology and spirit because they created this fantastic well-designed boat which the outsider who doesn't understand their language can operate too! Ah.. I can expect them. I can go my home country someday...
Dog : Can I see my owner?
Cat : Meow.. you are an idiot. But yes, you can see her if it is what you really want. Humans are idiots too. They are so afraid of what they created. We have to recover our land first, then you may be able to see her.
Pig : Friends, please concentrate for now. We are not reaching anywhere yet. Look! The vision is moving constantly. Don't miss the direction! Dog and Ostrich, touch the middle finger!
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
Rooster : Wait.. It's spinning faster and faster!
Pig : Oink Oink...
Cow : Moo Moo!! This is the end!! We will all die!!! Falling!!!!!!
Hen : Bok Bok!!!! Cow!!! Don't pull out the handle!!! Oh No!! The boat is shaking now!!
All together : Damn!!!!
Cow : Mo... (falls down and faints.)
Hen : Bok Bok! Everybody, do the same way with Cow! Pull your handle, give it to the next right person, put the handle in again! Pretend that it didn't happen!!
Pig : That makes sense! Pull it out! With our next call, we put it in together! Hen, seat instead of Cow!
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
Rooster : The body becomes stable... Hen, you had a quick wit! You are amazing!!
Hen : Bok?! Cow's face changes mine! NEO-DRAGON CITY is communicating with us!! Surely we must be able to reach there!
Pig : Yes, if six, no, seven wise brains work together, we will be able to reach NEO-DRAGON CITY. Let Cow sleep till he wakes up.
He must be tired as he is more a worrier than us. ...By the way, there are so many ways to operate this instrument system.
Do you think the circle soil line is the earth? It seems movable parts as well as the handles. But I feel scared somehow to move that part because it looks like the earth's crust. If we move this part, I feel we can cause the earthquake.
Ostrich: I agree. I feel we shouldn't touch it either. Let's follow our intuition. Is the black area inside of the soil line the universe? Or the bottom of the ocean?
Cat : It is the universe and at the same time, the bottom of the ocean! Both are the mysterious area where there is darkness and we cannot breathe. It's the area of death and at the same time, the origin of life!! Look! Our handles connect to that area!!! Meow!
Pig : Oink Oink! Cat, how clever you are! These handles look like extending or opening the space too! The hearts of the instrument which is emitting light looks like bacteria. I start to appreciate the depth of this operation instrument. For Dragon City and NEO-DRAGON CITY, the earth is a transient area like this thin line. Therefore, they moved their habitat to the bottom of ocean and the space. It's the world of darkness where we normally don't recognize.
Hen : Are we going to the dark world?
Dog : Are they a kind of frog? The shape of handle is like a frog's webbed hand. Are the reptiles the main creatures of Dragon City? They can live in water, so it makes sense. Dragon which many people believe looks like a large snake or crocodile.
Rooster : Dragon is rather a dinosaur which is the ancestor of reptiles. As we, birds are also descendants of dinosaurs, it is no wonder that dragon's habitat is in the sky as well as ocean. My father often told me that our ancestor, dinasor appeared about 230,000,000 years ago, and they flourish for 160,000,000 years. Their era was extraordinarily long, and still they are still living as birds and repitiles. Humans are living for 7,000,000 years. They occupy all the land currently and doing whatever they want, but they are a baby and dangerous with the lack of knowledge of life.
Ostrich: I am wondering if these symbol like languages could be fossils of Dragon City. If our hypothesis is that the helmet boat pushed up from the bottom of the ocean by a Tsunami, many fossils which were under the bottom of the ocean may be floating and dancing around.
Pig : Oink Oink.. Are we in the boat for the journey of evolution? Are we on the way to contact the living thing who evolved in the different way in Dragon City? They left the soil. I want to go back to the land at the end. My friends, I want to make sure not to forget that this journey is to save our home land in the end.
Hen : I am scared..
Cat : Meow Meow.. I don't care. I am not scared. I am spayed and cannot have my baby anymore. My home, my favorite roof and pier, all gone. Nobody pat my polluted body. I cannot enjoy eating fish which are polluted too. I don't feel alive anymore. Who knows if we are still alive? Look. The living thing who left the land expresses it with such a thin line. The land we want to save is so narrow and small, and a perilous place. Why do we need to adhere it? We don't have to go back.
Cow : Moo.. where is this? Heaven?
Rooster : Oh, I am glad you could wake up. You slept for a while. Are you ok now? My friends, we shouldn't worry so much. Nobody is injured. We are all ok. What we have to do now is reach the NEO-DRAGON CITY. We need to go there for our future. We had been in the dark world already. That's why we departed on this journey, right? ...OMG.. The bacteria area is changing color... Something is coming!
Be strong together and keep hope! Grab your handle!! Cock a doodle doo!!!
2016
Rooster, Cat, Pig, Ostrich, Cow, Dog and Hen are getting into the Helmet Boat.
Pedestal part : A big low folding type of table. It looks like a small stage because of the hight.
Screen part : The image is like drifting water. The whirlpool causes dizziness. Many fragments drifting water look like unknown language piece or fossils appear and disappear.
Handle part : There are six handles. Each shape is a webbed hand and looks like a frog's. Removable.
Soil line : A circle line which evokes the earth surface or the earth's crust. Removable, and it recalls the earthquake.
The faces of the drivers : A face who sits on that seat appears on the shiny metal background. When the driver changes, the face also changes. Boat interacts with the controllers.
Space or the depth of the ocean : Complete darkness and expansion of shape and space. The six handles are connected to this space.
The center part : The white lit organic shape is the center of the control table. It looks like bacteria. The area is the origin of life.
Dog : Bow Wow! What the heck!! There is only a table at the center of the room! Is this really a flying vehicle?
Cow : No, no, this is not a table. This must be a stage. Looks like the auction stage when we are sold in auction. Moo..
Pig : Well.. I assume that this is the operation instrument! Although I am not sure if it works with the system in which six members pilot a boat at the same time, this is the brain part of this boat and it stays and occupies the center of the boat. Also this boat doesn't know which way is front or back. So this is the operation instrument!!
Dog : Doesn't it cause confusion if there are six operators? I think it is best if one person directs and rest of us just follow.. It will be trouble if we are in chaos while traveling in the sky.
Cat : I think this is just a future television. I remember my owner was always watching the television sitting on this kind of lower table and eating oranges. Meow. This helmet is not a vehicle but just a small theater room.
Ostrich : Look! The six cables from the six handles connect to the six holes. This is a screen which contacts to NEO-DRAGON CITY, and the brain mechanism controls this boat!!
Hen : Bok Bok, something moving on the screen!!
Rooster : OMG.. these are our faces?!
Cow : Do they indicate us to sit in the place where each face appears?
Cat : There is no face for the Hen..
Dog : Oh, then you don't have to operate, Hen. You can just sit in the passenger seat. You are so lucky!!
Pig : Okay, let's follow the Dragon City's vision. We don't know anything. We don't have anything to loose either. We just go forward. Oink..
Rooster : Like dog said, if we all operate at the same time, the boat may spin and collapse?
Pig : If everybody operates in the same way, there is no difference between one or six operators. We have to unite our minds together and act together. My friends, take charge of the right handle each of you!! There are fingers and wrists on these handles.
Touch the thumb with our call together.
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
GOGOGOGOGOOGOGGOGOGOGOGOGOOGGO..............
Hen : Bok Bok Bok!! The boat is floating!!! We are floating!!!! The boat is spinning but we are not?!?
Pig : Oink Oink!! This is what I expected! This is the technology which harness's the law of the universe !! Fantastic!!! Oink Oink!!
This is undoubtedly a vehicle of the legendary civilization, Dragon City!!! Congratulations my friends, we are leaving the polluted land!!
Cow : Moo.. we are floating.. Moo.. What should we do next? Can we come back to our land?
Rooster : Don't worry, cow. We will come back. We just found the hope!! Cock a doodle doo!!!Oh look! The vision like water is also moving now. Let's wait the next direction from them.
Ostrich : Don't you feel weird when you keep looking at this whirlpool? Huuum.. I understand now.. the operators are six but the vision is one. Literally our handles connect to each other... This is what the human cannot invent. Dragon City.. it must be an excellent civilization!! Ah, Thank You, God, Buddah, No no, Dragon!! Please take us to NEO-DRAGON CITY!!!
Pig : Oink Oink!?!? Look! The boat is fading away!?
Cow : Moo Moo!?! We are falling!!!!!!!
Hen : No, we are not falling! We are still flying! The boat became transparent! Bok Bok!! I haven't flown this high!!!
Dog : I have flown with my owner when we went to Guam. But I was in the cage and had no idea if I was flying or not. She told me that I flew though. It just made me suffer with the din and huge vibration for so long. This boat is so quiet, and the sky is so beautiful.. This is what the birds know?
Cat : Forget about your owner. They left us. Meow! A shape appears on the screen! What is this?? Meow Meow! Another one there!
Pig : Is it the language of Dragon City? Or the symbols? Oink.. That looks like a scale. This looks like a thunder... That must be a wing...
Rooster : Some look like broken pieces of the architecture too. They appear one after another. This vision makes me feel sad somehow. But at the same time, it is so beautiful.. I am fascinated by it.
Cow : Please!! No time to be fascinated!!! What's next?! Are we ok??
Ostrich : Calm down. Just wait for the direction. The vision is just moving randomly. When something unusual happens, that's the hint for us. Wait for the time.
All together : Oh!!!!!
Pig : All the fragments gather to the handle of cow!
Cow : Moo Moo Moo Moo!!! What should I do??!?
Cat : Pull yourself together! With our next call, You touch the middle finger of your handle. Do you follow me? The others don't change, just stay on the thumb.
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
Hen : Bok Bok!! The boat leans to the direction of cow! We succeeded to control the boat!!! We are geniuses!!!
Ostrich: No, we are not! Dragon City is the genius!! They must have amazing technology and spirit because they created this fantastic well-designed boat which the outsider who doesn't understand their language can operate too! Ah.. I can expect them. I can go my home country someday...
Dog : Can I see my owner?
Cat : Meow.. you are an idiot. But yes, you can see her if it is what you really want. Humans are idiots too. They are so afraid of what they created. We have to recover our land first, then you may be able to see her.
Pig : Friends, please concentrate for now. We are not reaching anywhere yet. Look! The vision is moving constantly. Don't miss the direction! Dog and Ostrich, touch the middle finger!
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
Rooster : Wait.. It's spinning faster and faster!
Pig : Oink Oink...
Cow : Moo Moo!! This is the end!! We will all die!!! Falling!!!!!!
Hen : Bok Bok!!!! Cow!!! Don't pull out the handle!!! Oh No!! The boat is shaking now!!
All together : Damn!!!!
Cow : Mo... (falls down and faints.)
Hen : Bok Bok! Everybody, do the same way with Cow! Pull your handle, give it to the next right person, put the handle in again! Pretend that it didn't happen!!
Pig : That makes sense! Pull it out! With our next call, we put it in together! Hen, seat instead of Cow!
All together : One, Two, Three!!!
Rooster : The body becomes stable... Hen, you had a quick wit! You are amazing!!
Hen : Bok?! Cow's face changes mine! NEO-DRAGON CITY is communicating with us!! Surely we must be able to reach there!
Pig : Yes, if six, no, seven wise brains work together, we will be able to reach NEO-DRAGON CITY. Let Cow sleep till he wakes up.
He must be tired as he is more a worrier than us. ...By the way, there are so many ways to operate this instrument system.
Do you think the circle soil line is the earth? It seems movable parts as well as the handles. But I feel scared somehow to move that part because it looks like the earth's crust. If we move this part, I feel we can cause the earthquake.
Ostrich: I agree. I feel we shouldn't touch it either. Let's follow our intuition. Is the black area inside of the soil line the universe? Or the bottom of the ocean?
Cat : It is the universe and at the same time, the bottom of the ocean! Both are the mysterious area where there is darkness and we cannot breathe. It's the area of death and at the same time, the origin of life!! Look! Our handles connect to that area!!! Meow!
Pig : Oink Oink! Cat, how clever you are! These handles look like extending or opening the space too! The hearts of the instrument which is emitting light looks like bacteria. I start to appreciate the depth of this operation instrument. For Dragon City and NEO-DRAGON CITY, the earth is a transient area like this thin line. Therefore, they moved their habitat to the bottom of ocean and the space. It's the world of darkness where we normally don't recognize.
Hen : Are we going to the dark world?
Dog : Are they a kind of frog? The shape of handle is like a frog's webbed hand. Are the reptiles the main creatures of Dragon City? They can live in water, so it makes sense. Dragon which many people believe looks like a large snake or crocodile.
Rooster : Dragon is rather a dinosaur which is the ancestor of reptiles. As we, birds are also descendants of dinosaurs, it is no wonder that dragon's habitat is in the sky as well as ocean. My father often told me that our ancestor, dinasor appeared about 230,000,000 years ago, and they flourish for 160,000,000 years. Their era was extraordinarily long, and still they are still living as birds and repitiles. Humans are living for 7,000,000 years. They occupy all the land currently and doing whatever they want, but they are a baby and dangerous with the lack of knowledge of life.
Ostrich: I am wondering if these symbol like languages could be fossils of Dragon City. If our hypothesis is that the helmet boat pushed up from the bottom of the ocean by a Tsunami, many fossils which were under the bottom of the ocean may be floating and dancing around.
Pig : Oink Oink.. Are we in the boat for the journey of evolution? Are we on the way to contact the living thing who evolved in the different way in Dragon City? They left the soil. I want to go back to the land at the end. My friends, I want to make sure not to forget that this journey is to save our home land in the end.
Hen : I am scared..
Cat : Meow Meow.. I don't care. I am not scared. I am spayed and cannot have my baby anymore. My home, my favorite roof and pier, all gone. Nobody pat my polluted body. I cannot enjoy eating fish which are polluted too. I don't feel alive anymore. Who knows if we are still alive? Look. The living thing who left the land expresses it with such a thin line. The land we want to save is so narrow and small, and a perilous place. Why do we need to adhere it? We don't have to go back.
Cow : Moo.. where is this? Heaven?
Rooster : Oh, I am glad you could wake up. You slept for a while. Are you ok now? My friends, we shouldn't worry so much. Nobody is injured. We are all ok. What we have to do now is reach the NEO-DRAGON CITY. We need to go there for our future. We had been in the dark world already. That's why we departed on this journey, right? ...OMG.. The bacteria area is changing color... Something is coming!
Be strong together and keep hope! Grab your handle!! Cock a doodle doo!!!
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