Work
UNIT 1-NON-REPRESENT SELF-PORTRAIT
1) The seven stages are because I believe that human life is repeated in units of seven:
Monday to Sunday (7 days)
Get up and eat breakfast - Life - Lunch - Life - dinner - Life - sleep (seven steps sustain one day's life and people repeat seven things every day)
Birth - infancy - adolescence - adulthood - middle age - old age - death (seven stages form and end a person's life)
And as we know, cells in our bodies are replaced every seven years, which means that your body is updated every seven years. At the same time, according to
Maslow's demand theory, our human needs are divided into seven classes.
So I'll show myself in units of seven.
2) The reason why the seven stages always keep breaking away from the cage is that each stage has something similar to the cage that binds me. In this regard,
using the self of the later stage to cover the self of the previous stage represents that in the process of constantly trying to break away from the cage and get for
freedom, I have become my cage again. (I think freedom is the cage of freedom)
（When you pursue freedom, you are no longer free. Your thoughts are once again binds you）
3）because i think that I come from a cage and will eventually return to the cage. Therefore, I use the box as the beginning and end of my life. This view is also quoted
from PAA Joe, the first artist I investigated, "life is death.".
But all of the above ideas will be expressed in my physical bondage. Finally, I planted a green plant in the middle of the sculpture to show my mind. I hope that my
works will eventually become rusty with the passage of time, while the green plant (my thought) Will continue to spread out without any constraint.
UNIT 2-PERSITIVE
First of all, this work is a mask that can be worn on the face. It is made of pigskin. What I want to express is the contradiction and conflict between the root of social security and the right to speak. During the epidemic period, people put on masks one after another. The reason why people can wear masks according to the rules is that they need to be safe. It is safe to wear masks. Secondly, it is also because of China's social system for thousands of years. In China, people rarely have the right to speak. You can't question what the government says, and you can't refute what the government says. It is this kind of history and culture that ensures that everyone can borrow masks in this epidemic. This is a good thing for the epidemic, but is it really a good thing for us?
It has been said that the difference between human beings and animals is that human beings have thoughts. Masks represent the government, represent the system, restrict our behavior and imprison our thoughts. So what's the difference between us and animals who only listen to the tasks of higher authorities? Therefore, I chose pigskin as the main material of my art products. While we are imprisoned in thought and behavior, we are no different from animals. Pigskin mask is well integrated with my skin to become the mask on my face.
Secondly, I would like to express the concept of "symbiosis". Masks are the product of the failure of symbiosis between human and nature. When we should have lived harmoniously with nature, we created troubles. Troubles brought masks, which provided us with safety. We created masks with our own troubles. For this reason, I have reason to say that masks are the product of the failure of symbiosis between man and nature. Therefore, I use red and blue wire here to represent biological blood vessels and fiber systems, and also to express the contradictory combination of natural products and unnatural products in the society of science and technology.
UNIT 3-HOME
For the theme of "home", the first thing I think of is not the concept of sweet or warm, but the concept of "unit". In my last work of art, I discussed the social and natural attributes of human beings in combination with political system. In this work of art, I further discussed our social and natural attributes in combination with self exploration.
First of all, human beings are gregarious animals. They live in families. Many families combine to form a complete society. This is our social attribute. In this regard, I use the beehive as my main material to expand the work, because in my opinion, the social structure and social system of bees are very similar to human society, each individual has his own work, distribution according to work, very orderly.
UNIT 4- MOOD & FEELING
In the biblical story, Adam and Eve stole the forbidden fruit and caused the original sin of mankind. When Newton was hit by an apple and discovered universal gravitation, people began to explore natural sciences. Steve Jobs established the Apple mobile phone, and social technology was further promoted. But society is developing, and the natural ecology is gradually disappearing. More and more animals are becoming extinct. This is my source of inspiration.
So I turned the screen upside down to show the scene where Apple was about to fall, combined with my title "Who will Apple hit next?"
Initially, I wanted to draw a painting where the roles of animals and humans are interchangeable. The animals are having parties and eating human flesh. I hope that the audience can understand the animals consumed by us when they see such cruel images. But when I really investigated and studied the extinct animals in the world and the reasons, I was no longer angry, but helpless and calm. Therefore, I chose such a gentle and calm color as the background.
These animals are extinct, and these animals are extinct.
Although there are no humans in the whole picture, it forms a complete biological chain. Mushrooms are the decomposers, and animals and apples are the producers and consumers. It is a complete ecosystem.