2022works

Above the rainbow

Explanation: The number of works is set as “seven”, and the size and proportion of the works are multiples of “seven”, which originates from the seven colors of the rainbow and the seven days of the week. Whether it is a rainbow or a week, the cycle is endless. Therefore, the graphics in the picture are expanded with the character “回”, which is just like my daily routine of creation like labour. The rainbow in my mind is not a clear-cut seven highly saturated colors, but a blurred border and low purity. By adding a small amount of glass beads to the colored soil I collect, the texture of the originally matte soil will emit a faint and unpredictable light under different angles of light, the texture of the soil will become blurred and the boundary between colors will also become more blurred, using the most common graphics, using the most ordinary earth substances, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, because the extraordinary is often hidden in the ordinary, which is what I understand by “familiar and unfamiliar”. This is also what I understand by “the strangeness of familiarity”.

Where the Heart Goes

Explanation: I was particularly impressed by the “Going Home” of the Sui Dynasty Buddha’s head at Tianlong Mountain in the 2021 Spring Festival Gala. “The word “home” deeply moved me, and I extended the side image of the Buddha’s head, evolving the grotto, where the statue resides, into the hair of the Buddha’s head. At the same time, as a new Shanghai resident, Shanghai is my “home”. The same combination of the side of the self-portrait and the hair that transforms into a power line and a Shanghai landmark, visualises “home”. “Home” is where everyone’s “heart returns to”, so the work is named for that. Moreover, the use of colored earth and colored sandstone collected from the land of China is consistent with the materials used in ancient murals, and the use of local materials for local creation is a reflection of “the body and the earth are not the same”.