What is the world like in past 30 years?
Where are those citys that no longer have people live?
Who had been lived on this land, in the far past?
When will we forgot them, and When will they fade away?
Why they left and entrust the world to us?
In the project introduction I had mentioned that this projects idea comes from a fantasy story. A story about people now and people who lived in the past. Therefore, I want to record those remains. A wasteland style porfolio. From asking and learning, I find the Cockatoo Island. A convict penal establishment, primarily as a place of secondary punishment for convicts who had re-offended in the colonies. The most famous story of it would be the Australian bushranger, Captain Thunderbolt, who escaped in 1863 to begin the crime spree which made him famous. It is alleged that his wife had swum across to the island with tools to effect his escape, following which they both swam back to the mainland. Someone say they didn't make it and drawn in the water. We would never know.
To me,Cockatoo Island is a fantastic places for this project. Factorys, tombs, jails and storys. I believe in a quote. " As long as you have story to told, you are not done." The lsland clearly have a bunch of stories to told. However, the first step is we have to remember them. If the storys and people all lost in the long river of history, then how could we know what had happened on this mystroy land?
I try to record. I don't know if I am trying my best, but I want to record, because this Miserable but tenacious place have thousand souls laying on it. They broke rules and ruin the society, but they build the world we have. I wish I can recrod their Merit of what they do to the world, and remember, they used to live before.