CHENGCHUAN HU
CITY
In bustling cities in modern times, it seems that every person takes an attitude of “peddling one’s papers”, but every one actually interacts and links with each other. The potential links and interactions connect the correlations together to sustain the society. This phenomenon is compared to operation of gears in this project. Every part is independent from each other, but none of them can be omitted. In this stereoscopic space, people from all walks of life play different roles, and hardly have bodily contact, but each of them performs its own functions in different organizations and has its own existence significance. It resembles gears in different sizes, each of which performs its own functions, and links each other.
DETERIORATION
Since its dawn, human have been constantly exploiting and utilizing resources on the earth for the development and construction of technology and urbanization. As resource consumption accelerates, the earthly environment becomes worse and worse, hence pollution and various human-made disasters attract my concern. Since I noticed the harm to nature by human beings (which, in a sense, is a “self-mutilation” behavior of human beings), I intended to show the theme via a cubic statue with visual impact. Harm to human beings, literally, refers to bodily harm.
This concept is expressed via parts of human body. Nail is an artificial product, also an element representing industrial development and social construction. Inserting such a hard element into eyeball or finger of human visually shows heavy pain and impact force. Besides, it also represents that human beings are harmed by objects created by themselves. Forcibly hammering human elements into soil block shows a feeling of violence. Nail-biting and helplessness of human beings are showed when the finger struggles.
CONSERVATION
As time lapses, all things also change. Food decays and goes mouldy, the earth’s surface weathers and erodes, and so on. There is nothing can stop these natural phenomena. I focused on preservation. Hence, the first idea coming to me when I made surveys is amber. Amber refers to hard crystal formed by resin completely wrapping an insect and curing. Ambers can be intact even after undergoing thousands of years of erosion. I also thought of dinosaur fossil. Many skeletons of died dinosaurs have been preserved even after several crustal movements. Besides, refrigerators, sealable pots, and such devices also have the function of preservation. As to those that are preserved, I believe they are beautiful and valuable, so they are preserved. Hence, I adopted crystal glue as a modern preserver. Furthermore, this kind of material is crystal clear, which, together with bubbles, distinguishes my theme better. The objects that I want to preserve are skeletons made from shaping clay. The skeletons were chopped, and soaked in crystal glue. Color concentrates were added into the crystal glue to form certain color flow, to show that a beautiful thing was preserved in the process of its elapsing.
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