Chinese Traditional Painting is very different from western paintings for it’s an art that draws from the “heart,” not the “eye.” Chinese Traditional Painting may change the reality’s perspective and vanishing point at the artist’s will, following the Three Distances method by the Song Dynasty artist Guo Xi. Horizontal Distance is one of the Three Distances, which is a way of drawing mountains in a 2D view, extending them outside the picture. This concept was used in our Horizontal Distance wall lamp design, in order to breakthrough people’s stereotypes and encourage the audience to see and feel for themselves.

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Transparent lines constructed by the acrylic boards symbolizes the scenery people saw standing in the mountains, like 2D-paintings—all we can sense is the outline, not its depth. And this is an innovation of alternative thinking. Furthermore, humidifiers were put inside the sink of the base to recreate the misty atmosphere existing in traditional Chinese landscape painting. The waves of mists make its way through by the slots of the base, as though waterfall. While the base was the reflection of the mountains above, the lights light up upwards to mimic city lights, and the outlines of the mountains would glimmer.