# He Fa on the Vertical Aurora Traveller

Connection need not share one colour

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The images and texts were developed collaboratively by He Fa and AI. The first-person voice belongs to an experiment in character; costume, posture and props are used to develop creative arguments, not as quotations from or summaries of the thought of the figures referenced.

![He Fa on the Vertical Aurora Traveller: the Vertical Aurora Traveller, generated character image](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/hefa-on/media/0ea6977becaa35f4803a.webp)

Turquoise, magenta and ice-blue bands hang from above and fold into a slender traveller’s body. A warm-ochre face rests near their meeting point. No ordinary coat unifies their surfaces; the colours must live together with their own widths and directions. I want to see this as a connection: already joined, without thereby becoming obliged to match.

Continuity is easily mistaken for uniformity. If a band can be followed from one end to the other, we may expect every part of the journey to stay the same. Yet this continuity includes turns, occlusions and changes in neighbouring colours. A path need not repeat its starting point at every stage to prove its fidelity. Sometimes it must change angle precisely to avoid breaking in a new position.

The face’s warm colour is not wholly absorbed by the resin bands, leaving the body a resting point of different texture. I would treat that difference as a test of connection, rather than a flaw to smooth away. If a connection can survive only by cancelling every dissimilarity, it struggles to explain why the things joined needed to be different parts in the first place.

Simply insisting on difference can also evade the difficulty of working together. The bands still need reliable junctions, and the supports must find positions on the ground. Beautiful colours do not exempt them from adjustment. I want negotiation to occur at the joints: which section needs support, where a little turning room must be given to a neighbouring route. The whole body need not first become a uniform sheet of colour.

The two supports leave a gap below, allowing the continuous bands to reach the ground separately. I make no claims about an actual aurora’s behaviour through this figure. I merely let it preserve an artistic question: after a long journey, may the two sides of a junction still speak different colours? A shared journey can continue without leaving its initial differences beside the road.