2009

In the Second Series, the theme of families and nature continues but in the contemporary context: nowadays, urban people enjoy the countryside on the weekend, but they no longer take the time or have the patience to observe nature. With the rise of the digital age, people take for granted the use of cell-phone cameras to capture nature in their daily lives. In the video, time is not important, but in the real life of the Chinese, time is money. The Second Series borrows resources from the home: families rely on home appliances for saving time, so the animated video recalls nature within real products used in daily lives.

In Micro-Landscape series II (微观山水2), I will continue a series of installations related to landscapes, which mainly borrow from Chinese ancient stories and project them onto two types of models: In the first model, I will copy the shape of the New York Times’s building and project it as a landscape video onto multiple spaces of the model; in the second model, I will use concrete as a material to copy an apartment’s home appliances that everybody uses such as refrigerators, electronic fans and washing machines, and project these videos into different sizes and shapes.