You move along Payathai road towards Samyarn. Looking toward the West, where your destination lies. The journey starts by entering the enclosed stair ahead of you. Observing the bridge from this point, it is a totally covered up space, from the ground high up to the air. The mirror planes on top of the structure reflect everything behind. Undoubtedly, they block your eyes from seeing the opposite side. You see North while you are walking down South, and you see South when you move towards North.
All the entrances to the platform overhead are shaped alike, enclosed with concrete and installed with different walkways inside. The one ahead is a series of rotating concrete stair. After a few steps, everything shifts smoothly to the left, leaving you unnoticed with the movement. The steps move up to the wall, replacing the openings positions and the openings relocate themselves on the ceiling. The ceiling is shaped like a boulder of the stair. By the time you get up to the highest edge, one revolution is completed.
Looking over to another stair, coming from an opposite direction. Openings on both sides are situated only at another far end which supposes to be the end of your way down to the ground but it appears to your eyes as if you are underground and that path will lead you up above the soil.
Looking to the West, twenty-eight-metre concrete floor is waiting for you to cross over. Along the way lie long triangle glass stripes, lying up one after another all along the way. Some of them allow the external mirrors reflect the view from the outside of the bridge to the inside while some are dull. Through the spaces, you see the outer surroundings with additional elements added into them. On the right, buildings are turning anti-clockwise like you are walking in a sphere. Whereas on the left, the scenery is viewed ascendingly as if you are walking up a hill.
Towards the very end of another side, two directions of descending steps lay on both sides of you. The narrow exit leads you down to the South. The width of the stair starts off one-meter long and, little by little, become twice as wide when it reaches the ground. On the other hand, the path on the right looks complicated with unequally wide and high steps and its shelter is the boulder of that. It does not lead you the way down but you have to lead yourself along the way down to the ground.
On the other hand, if you enter from the West and exit on the East, what that is seen then is not in the sight now. The closed planes along the way from another side become transparent. On your left, the sky is rarely seen and is replaced with a cut-off piece of the surroundings. Where looking toward another side, the openings are frames of the view, each frame enlarges a little by little but it is obvious that they become larger and larger as you are approaching the East end.
i'll come up with the new ideas for the viewing on the bridge.
1 comment:
It is very good that you keep on writing and trying.
You have to define how many of those short texts you need for the book.
How they are split - how we move from one to another in the book (through the images in between) - be in control of the reader's wandering and possible dream/perdition in your project.
In my opinion, the previous version, because of its directness and maybe also clumsiness was more powerful than this one.
Be careful not to describe too much, being evocative will serve your project better.
I would also recommend to avoid (ab)using "as if" . Metaphors are often more powerful than comparisons.
I miss the flight on the back of the pigeon...!
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