Unit 1
At first, I started from myself, and my main focus was on loneliness, silence, and restraint. Loneliness is the norm of life, sometimes I retired it, but sometimes I enjoy it. It is also meditative daily activity loneliness is a feeling experience of subjective isolation and alienation from others or society, rather than an objective state, which is a self closure of one's living space and living state.
Most of my previous works are realistic, but I try to use abstract elements to carry out my project because I think feeling itself is an abstract concept.
I drew a lot of people without facial expressions. It shows that, even in the crowd, they chose not to see or hear. Silence became the common behavior of all people. This is also the theme of my research: the indifference of the interpersonal relationship promotes people's uneasiness about the intimate relationship and forms the consciousness of self-protection and self closure.
I will apply the abstract model to the concrete reality scene, form the contrast, and discuss the relationship between the existence and non-existence of reality. It seems absurd, but it's reasonable. It's also a key step towards my final work. "What is reasonable is real, and what is real is reasonable." In Hegel's view, many things, in reality, are untrue, and only the existence that conforms to this concept is true.
I prefer emotional photography, so I always get a lot of inspiration in photography. The picture below is in a forest. I put myself in it.
Without a specific image and gender characteristics, people are surrounded by trees and vines, which is a sense of bondage.
The inspiration for this series of works comes from my observation and perception of negative emotions and isolation. Most of the works are characters without facial features and gender characteristics in an open environment, so the viewers can bring themselves into the works and walk into the silent and melancholic world alone.
I'm going to create five to six small sculptures and put them in different positions in the corner. Everbody is tiny in the world, you need to look closely then you can find them and understand them. And the outside of each sculpture is wrapped with black wires (or bandages, earphones, wire). It’s like “get enmeshed in a web of one’s own spinning”. This state is like a state of self-closing, self-binding and self-protection, but is it self-protection or self-injury? In fact, they suffer a lot of pain and constraints while protecting themselves.
Finally, I squeezed the paper (because paper is easy to deform and it's very fragile, just like human beings) into a curled-up human body, put it into a black box, surrounded by a big whirlpool, which seemed to imprison ourselves in a small pattern, unwilling to enter the reality.
I used a lot of lines in the process. The thread represents entanglement, self-protection, and cocooning
These are some sketches about binding and constraint.
The characters are all crouching in a narrow space.
They are all in a narrow space, and then put them into a big web. The background is like a spider web, sticking to each self, making them look like being protected, but also more like being entangled, unable to break away. As I said before, you don't know whether this kind of self-protection is beneficial or harmful. In this closed state, you have escaped from the external harm and at the same time, you have suffered a lot of pain that you have been imprisoned by yourself. This is a contradiction, and human psychology is a contradiction.
It expresses a sense of entanglement and chaos in the form of whirlpool. The surrounding form is also a kind of self-protection, forming an invisible space around you, just like a net. In this confined space, you can escape the external pressure and imagine the world you want. Many of my pictures are in this way
With the development of the Internet, people tend to hide behind the computer or mobile screen as if they are locked in a narrow space, unwilling to enter into the reality, it is more and more difficult to have close contact and communication with people, thus creating a sense of social distance. In fact, it's a kind of contradictory relationship, which not only wants to go out, but also fears the struggle of intimate contact.
I use a way that doesn't have a specific image or gender identity to make the audience more empathetic.
Some other attempts, I've tried a lot on this social theme.
When I draw some figures, I think their actions are very vivid, very similar to my usual state. When I hold the shape of the person I draw, I find it's interesting. Later, many students who see this pattern will also express resonance, because this is actually the daily state of many people.
So I wanted to put it into reality, and I abstracted and conceptualized them, with a little bit of humor and loveliness. It's a kind of decadent and lazy state when I'm alone. It's also a kind of struggling state. For example, the speed of getting into bed is in contrast to the difficulty of getting up. The reason for using canvas is that this kind of softness can better show this kind of lazy state, and it can constantly change the dynamic state, and it also has a certain hardness, which can just support the pose. I can put it in any scene, almost every state can be integrated into the scene, which makes the picture vivid and makes people feel this lonely and lonely atmosphere.
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