STARING MOMENT
I have always been in the habit of taking photos by using iphone to record my life .Many of these records are the smallest, most overlooked moments in life, such as a rusty, dusty screw in the corner. As much as I love the beauty of these still objects, I haven't thought of making them formal in the past, just as a hobby for myself. I've been trying to incorporate still life pieces into my sculptures recently and the process has made me very exciting.
First of all, it's not enough to just photograph these little pieces of still life. You can only feel one angle in a photo. In addition, it is difficult to express spatial relations in photos. But the sculpture is different, it is three-dimensional itself, with a sense of space. I can also freely match the arrangement and combination of several monomers, and different combinations can achieve completely different expression effects. When taking photos, I am very concerned about the natural state of the subject, I only take notes, do not make changes, only consider the composition and shooting Angle. But the process of creating a sculpture is completely different. I sketch to the real thing, adding a lot of my own thinking in the process.
In terms of expression, I think "real" and "like" are two different things. I don't want to make it real, I just want to make it like. It looks like a lemon, it looks like an apple, that's right. I think this process is a form of deception, which tricks the viewer's brain. One morning, my family nearly threw my work into the trash as real peel, which served my purpose. But if you compare the real fruit with my work, you will find that it is far from the real thing, the details are completely different. But it doesn't matter. I lied to your eyes.
Our eyes are constantly sending messages to the brain as we look at the world. For example, if the eye sees something big and black and square and flat with a light on the bottom, the brain knows, oh, it's an LCD TV. Or, for example, the eye sees a long orange-red pointed object with green leaves on top. Oh, this is a carrot. Our brains make judgments based on the shape and color of objects. When I think about it, I realize that I was doing two things when I was doing this series. I first carved out the shape of the object with wood and then colored it with paint. In this process, I kept thinking and analyzing which features to achieve, and which features were irrelevant and could be discarded. It's interesting to create my own product with my subjective mind, instead of having to live up to the concept. For the viewer, if you try to fool his eyes, he will find the experience interesting.
In addition, the still life sculptured can fully express the concept that time has stopped, which is also the most important. I wrote The Lost Man before, which expressed the flow of time and space. The series of still life objects can express the stop of time, just like the camera records a segment of life with 1/1000th of a second. Although the objects are still life (In this case, it means organic matter), they are not static, on the contrary, they are constantly in contact with the environment, the air and change themselves. The discarded peel goes from filling to shriveling in a day, then slowly rolls up, and the color slowly darkens and stops being bright, so it changes shape and color. I record these fragile, fleeting scenes and emotions in the form of sculpture in order to stop time at this moment. I enjoyed watching them from a distance when they were finished, as if time had stopped in the glass and I was staring at them from beyond.
First of all, it's not enough to just photograph these little pieces of still life. You can only feel one angle in a photo. In addition, it is difficult to express spatial relations in photos. But the sculpture is different, it is three-dimensional itself, with a sense of space. I can also freely match the arrangement and combination of several monomers, and different combinations can achieve completely different expression effects. When taking photos, I am very concerned about the natural state of the subject, I only take notes, do not make changes, only consider the composition and shooting Angle. But the process of creating a sculpture is completely different. I sketch to the real thing, adding a lot of my own thinking in the process.
In terms of expression, I think "real" and "like" are two different things. I don't want to make it real, I just want to make it like. It looks like a lemon, it looks like an apple, that's right. I think this process is a form of deception, which tricks the viewer's brain. One morning, my family nearly threw my work into the trash as real peel, which served my purpose. But if you compare the real fruit with my work, you will find that it is far from the real thing, the details are completely different. But it doesn't matter. I lied to your eyes.
Our eyes are constantly sending messages to the brain as we look at the world. For example, if the eye sees something big and black and square and flat with a light on the bottom, the brain knows, oh, it's an LCD TV. Or, for example, the eye sees a long orange-red pointed object with green leaves on top. Oh, this is a carrot. Our brains make judgments based on the shape and color of objects. When I think about it, I realize that I was doing two things when I was doing this series. I first carved out the shape of the object with wood and then colored it with paint. In this process, I kept thinking and analyzing which features to achieve, and which features were irrelevant and could be discarded. It's interesting to create my own product with my subjective mind, instead of having to live up to the concept. For the viewer, if you try to fool his eyes, he will find the experience interesting.
In addition, the still life sculptured can fully express the concept that time has stopped, which is also the most important. I wrote The Lost Man before, which expressed the flow of time and space. The series of still life objects can express the stop of time, just like the camera records a segment of life with 1/1000th of a second. Although the objects are still life (In this case, it means organic matter), they are not static, on the contrary, they are constantly in contact with the environment, the air and change themselves. The discarded peel goes from filling to shriveling in a day, then slowly rolls up, and the color slowly darkens and stops being bright, so it changes shape and color. I record these fragile, fleeting scenes and emotions in the form of sculpture in order to stop time at this moment. I enjoyed watching them from a distance when they were finished, as if time had stopped in the glass and I was staring at them from beyond.
2017.2
凝视瞬间
我一直有用iphone拍照来记录生活的习惯，这些记录中很大一部分是生活中最细微，最会被人忽视的瞬间。比如一颗落在角落里生锈又沾满灰尘的螺丝。虽然我很喜欢这些静物美，但过去我一直没想着要把它做成正式的作品，只是把它作为我自己的爱好而已。最近我试着把生活中细碎的静物融入到我的雕塑中，结果这个过程让我感到非常兴奋。
首先这些细碎的静物只用照片来记录这是不够的，一张照片中你只能感受到一个角度。另外在照片中也很难把空间关系表达出来，但雕塑不一样了，它本身就是三维的，具有空间感。我还可以自由搭配几个单体之间的排列组合方式，不同的组合就能达到完全不同的表达效果。拍照的时候，我非常在意拍摄对象的自然状态，我只做记录，不做改变，只要考虑构图和拍摄角度。但是创作雕塑的过程就完全不一样了。我对着实物去写生，这个过程加入了大量我自己的思考过程。
在表现手法上，我认为“逼真”和“像”是两回事，我并不想做得太逼真，只想把它做像。它看起来很像柠檬，它看起来很像苹果，这就对了。我认为这个过程是一种欺骗方式，欺骗了观众的大脑。有一天早上我家人差点把我的作品当作真正的果皮丢进垃圾桶，这就达到了我的目的。但是假如你拿真的水果和我的作品比较，你会发现离实物其实差很多，细节完全都不一样。但没关系，我还是骗过了你的眼睛。
我们的眼睛在观察世界的时候不断在传达给大脑信息。比如眼睛看到一个又大又黑，又方又扁，底部还有一盏指示灯亮着的东西，大脑就知道了，哦，这是一台液晶电视机。再比如眼睛看到长形橘红色尖尖物体，顶上还带着绿叶子的，哦，这是一根胡萝卜。我们的大脑在根据物体的形状和颜色做出判断。仔细想想，我在做这个系列的时候不就是在做着两件事么？先用木材雕刻出物体的形状，再用颜料上色。我在这个过程中不断地思考分析，要做到哪些特征，而哪些特征又是无关紧要可以丢弃的，用主观意识创造出自己的产物，这很有意思，你不必一味得去做到逼真这个概念。对观众来讲你试着骗过了他的眼睛，他也会认为这样的体验很有趣。
另外，雕塑静物可以充分的表达出时间停止的概念，这也是最重要的。我之前创作出《消失的人》，表达出时空的流动。静物的系列就可以表达出时间的停止，就像相机用1/1000秒的时间记录下一个某个生活的片段一样。虽说写生对象都是静物(这里指有机物)，但其实它们并非静止不动，相反，它们无时无刻不在与环境，空气发生接触而改变自身。丢掉的橘子皮一天就从充满到干瘪，然后慢慢卷起来，颜色也慢慢变黑，不再鲜艳，所以从形状到颜色都在发生改变。用雕塑的形式把这些脆弱，易逝的光景和情感记录下来，不就是把时间停止在这一刻么。我很享受作品完成后，我远远的观察着它们，仿佛作品所处的那个玻璃罩中的时间停止了，而我在这之外凝视着它们。
首先这些细碎的静物只用照片来记录这是不够的，一张照片中你只能感受到一个角度。另外在照片中也很难把空间关系表达出来，但雕塑不一样了，它本身就是三维的，具有空间感。我还可以自由搭配几个单体之间的排列组合方式，不同的组合就能达到完全不同的表达效果。拍照的时候，我非常在意拍摄对象的自然状态，我只做记录，不做改变，只要考虑构图和拍摄角度。但是创作雕塑的过程就完全不一样了。我对着实物去写生，这个过程加入了大量我自己的思考过程。
在表现手法上，我认为“逼真”和“像”是两回事，我并不想做得太逼真，只想把它做像。它看起来很像柠檬，它看起来很像苹果，这就对了。我认为这个过程是一种欺骗方式，欺骗了观众的大脑。有一天早上我家人差点把我的作品当作真正的果皮丢进垃圾桶，这就达到了我的目的。但是假如你拿真的水果和我的作品比较，你会发现离实物其实差很多，细节完全都不一样。但没关系，我还是骗过了你的眼睛。
我们的眼睛在观察世界的时候不断在传达给大脑信息。比如眼睛看到一个又大又黑，又方又扁，底部还有一盏指示灯亮着的东西，大脑就知道了，哦，这是一台液晶电视机。再比如眼睛看到长形橘红色尖尖物体，顶上还带着绿叶子的，哦，这是一根胡萝卜。我们的大脑在根据物体的形状和颜色做出判断。仔细想想，我在做这个系列的时候不就是在做着两件事么？先用木材雕刻出物体的形状，再用颜料上色。我在这个过程中不断地思考分析，要做到哪些特征，而哪些特征又是无关紧要可以丢弃的，用主观意识创造出自己的产物，这很有意思，你不必一味得去做到逼真这个概念。对观众来讲你试着骗过了他的眼睛，他也会认为这样的体验很有趣。
另外，雕塑静物可以充分的表达出时间停止的概念，这也是最重要的。我之前创作出《消失的人》，表达出时空的流动。静物的系列就可以表达出时间的停止，就像相机用1/1000秒的时间记录下一个某个生活的片段一样。虽说写生对象都是静物(这里指有机物)，但其实它们并非静止不动，相反，它们无时无刻不在与环境，空气发生接触而改变自身。丢掉的橘子皮一天就从充满到干瘪，然后慢慢卷起来，颜色也慢慢变黑，不再鲜艳，所以从形状到颜色都在发生改变。用雕塑的形式把这些脆弱，易逝的光景和情感记录下来，不就是把时间停止在这一刻么。我很享受作品完成后，我远远的观察着它们，仿佛作品所处的那个玻璃罩中的时间停止了，而我在这之外凝视着它们。
2017.2