Sign

Semiotics is formed basically by signification that involves the signifier and the signifieds. If i am the signifier, maybe the signified is Keanu Reeves. Or vice versa? This is truely the essential sign of 'craps'.

Signifier always remains, while the signifieds are transient. And that signifieds are always the signifiers for other signifieds. For example, Petronas Twin Towers is a signifier; its signified is the ambition of Malaysia frogleaps towards modernization; and the signified of the former signified may be the double gateway opening to both the modernization vision, and the dilemma of the country infancy in certain mentality and contents. Perhaps, i should go my craps elaborations with fashion nowadays to make my craps more presentable. So i chosed the hot China trend.


While the 2008 Olympics is landing in Beijing, how many people's attentions are distracted from the old grand Icon-- the Great Wall of China? The Great Wall was a continuous, long and sprawling structure that 'belt' the Northern China from foreign attacks. It also signified how determined has been China to protect and defense its integrity of every inch of land. Until today, China became cohesive in some sense, and claims timelessly that Taiwan is part of it.


Well, patina tells the story. Nowadays, the fatally decaying Great Wall (lack maintenance) reminds people of its contradictory dilemma in between preservation of its culture and foreign imposition of modernization. Like a 'firewall', can Great Wall of China keep the foreign influences at bay on the internet, or at least in their adjustable control manner? Are the Chinese (in China) going to 'frame' their lifestyle in Western's 'perspective painting'? Perhaps, the long span (rolled) 'unperspective' (or 'multi-perspectives') Chinese paintings, together with the long sprawling Great Wall, have been kept for nostalgia, to put aside when they gear up their economic boom. Low rise, wide span 'steadiness' is no more appreciated as grandeur, the people are obsessed frenziedly with the economy, modernization and urbanization, they prefer 'big jump' (like the 'jumping' unprecedented economy). 'Height is perfect'. Megaprojects (like CCTV by Koolhaas) and supernatural scaled towers in cities of China, like Shanghai and Beijing are breaking the 'walls'.
The 'walls' are being thorn down.