Source: Graduate Photography Online - 2022 - Royal College of Art

Wanderlust

The main research method in Psychogeography is ‘derive’. Derive can be described as a kind of ‘wanderlust’. I am what Baudelaire called a ‘flaneur’, a person who likes to feel the city I live in, the city and the outside world through walking wandering and other physical movements. Everything about the city and the outside world affects my psychoemotional state and I respond to my surroundings and daily activities in response to city life. Using the camera during my wanderings/walks allow me to redigest and reconstruct the visual landscape made up of landscapes, people and objects, and also provide a valuable impetus to my creative work. For these reasons, I undertook to create a series of photographic works on the theme of ‘WANDERLUST’, but I found that using still photography was not sufficient to fully interpret my punctum, prickly point, impulse, emotional flow and interaction between the city and me behind the urban landscape, so I also prepared a thematic video work ‘WANDERLUST’, which is combined with the photographic series to showcase the interpretation. The thematic video work ‘WANDERLUST’ , it’s a beginning to think about how I could really show the process, experience and interaction of my integration into London life. This work is a documentary dedicated to me, recording the moments I experience at home, in the areas I cover in my life's footprint and further afield, reciting the words I write in my own voice to make my story more fully intimate and emotional.

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Yudi Wu - Royal College of Art