Seperate X Together Written Response

This is a image that grew out of the gesture model. The image is partly inspired by my experiences on the MRT transit. MRT, as I mentioned previously, played a important role while I was researching on Taipei. And I also think that MRT is now one of the most important public structure in Taipei City.

MRT was a transmitting device transferring different people and their stories from one place to another. It was built solely for people's traveling conveniences, making a fast paced city to move even faster. So fast that people stop having time to think about their actions, to look for interesting things along their way, and they stop listening to other people's stories.
--This is my impression of MRT and the people who are riding it most of the time while working on this project.

However, just before I am completing this project, I began to look at MRT in another angle, realizing that as much as people forgot about it, MRT is still one of those strongest links that connects everyone in Taipei. People are gathered and forced to connect.
On MRT, people are basically thrown together in one place, unlike in the olden days, people get to drive their own car, now strangers has to share transportation.
And it strikes me as a very interesting reaction when people try to resent that connection they are forced to have. Asians tends to be more closed-off and shy, and I do know for a fact that people tend to hate talking to strangers in the transit.
So we see a lot of people go out of their way to avoid connections to strangers on MRT.

However, whether people like it or not, we are all connected in this city.
In the drawing, it seems like there are two separate entities, looking towards each other but not touching. The point is to see that vague connection that holds these two entities together.
And then people can realize that they are actually not strangers, they are connected since birth, however subtle the connection may be. Once people realize that we will always be connected, then it gives the city a lot more possibilities to grow.

The point is to realize that vague link among all of us, like understanding that one drop of water links us to the whole world.