In unit 3, I mainly explored the absurdity of the world and the meaninglessness of life.

 

 I studied "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.  Understand how Camus uses Sisyphus' metaphor to explain the monotonous absurdity of life. Camus’s life theory is essentially meaningless. Life itself is absurd. Humans don’t know what will happen next, so they spend their entire lives working  Worthless actions.

 

 I have also paid attention to many absurd artists who are committed to topics such as existentialism, untrustworthy memories, the worthlessness of time, loss of identity and the feeling of being trapped.

 

 The sculpture in Giacometti is slender and tall. The man he sculpted looks tired, hungry, sad and lifeless. It looks like a man walking with the crowd physically, but thinking about the survival of human beings.  How irrational and absurd.  The characters in my works are all tired gestures, they are very lonely in the crowd.

 

 Daehyun Kim is a Korean visual artist,

 He is fascinated by philosophy and likes to study the relationship between time and space, the cycle of death and the meaning of existence.  The characters in his pens have no obvious expressions but have similar faces and distorted body postures, which are extremely surreal and absurd in the strong contrast of black and white. 

 

He gave me a lot of inspiration. I have been paying attention to people's behavior and mental state. I am interested in abstract patterns of characters, so my works depict different postures and movements of the human body.  Like him, I think black is simple and direct, has a strong sense of visual impact, and makes myself feel free when painting.  So my animations are mostly black and white.  I focus on some familiar things in life and give them new concepts and meanings.  My work is basically in black and white. I used repetition and endless loops to make some animated short films and experimental videos. I also tried to use "consumption" to show some meaningless human behaviors.

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I also thought about putting some of my works into the urban environment, so that every character can enter the real world.  Or make it into an animation, so that people who are still on the wall can move, as if the reality and the illusory world are combined.  Dynamic images can add more interactivity to the work. When they appear in the crowd, the audience becomes a part of the work. I want people to integrate into the work more closely, as if they exist in their own lives.