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The Meaning of Existence – dust

人类为了生存必须消耗地球的资源,而在这个过度消耗资源的时代,地球遭受了很大的破坏。我希望我的存在能够尽量减少对地球环境的负担。当我出生时,我就像宇宙中亿万颗行星中的一颗,只是太阳系中的一粒尘埃;当我离开时,尘土归尘,仿佛我从未来过。

作品ㄧ是婴儿床上的婴儿,代表我的诞生;
另一面是死亡时躺在床上的尸体,代表我的离去。我身边的表格记录了我出生和离开时对地球的影响。
创作媒介是用铅笔上色的,没有保护漆。希望以最简单的方式呈现,就像生命简单的存在一样。

The Meaning of Existence – dust

Human beings must consume the earth’s resources for survival, and in this era of excessive consumption of resources, the earth has suffered a lot of damage. I hope that my existence can minimize the burden on the earth’s environment. When I was born, like one of hundreds of millions of planets in the universe, I was just a little dust in the solar system; when I left, the dust returned to the dust, as if I had never been before.

The work ㄧ is a baby in a crib, representing my birth;
The other side is the body lying on the bed at the time of death, representing my departure. The form standing next to me records the impact on the earth when I was born and left.
The creative medium is colored with pencils, and there is no protective lacquer. It is hoped to be presented in the simplest way, like the simple existence of life.

Self Portrait #2

My work is a personal investigation which began as an attempt to see the body through the photographic medium in ways which are impossible with the naked eye.

I realize that we view images of the body very differently when they are life size or larger. Other objects do not hold such power and are always subject to interpretation of space when confronted by differences in size. The body, although conforming to the same rules of perspective, also holds another set of rules. The body is the common denominator of all the viewers, it is something to relate with on the most personal and intimate basis.

When working in photography it is important to remember that, unfortunately, photography is the choice medium of pornographers. It is a transparent medium; one that is taken of evidence of objective truth with little subjective interdiction. Any picture of a body is not necessarily thought of as a picture of a body, but as a body. We see through the portal of the pictures medium and look at the picture as evidence of truth…or of the body itself. A painting of a body has a different emotional charge than a photograph of the same body. Where a painting of the body would be considered sensual, a photograph of the same body is considered pornographic.

I am dealing with the total involvement of the figure and the role and relationship of the artist and viewer.

 

Untitled

In keeping with my usual approach, I experimented with the material that was sent to me: a small wooden box, a cover, and a rubber band. A spatial sculpture resulted from this. It unites a rigid structure, a hollow shape, an inner space, and a band connecting it, all which simultaneously groups surfaces and spaces. The box is an autonomous small sculpture, but at the same time it is also imaginable as a model for a large-scale sculpture.