Art or fashion is provided a huge window where we can sit and gaze at another world. In this world, everything is reversed in unimaginable ways ......
I lived in Japan for a while. In Japan, I have seen more of the Confucian spirit in China in the past, as well as the freehand brushwork I read in ancient poems, and the persistence in the artisan spirit. However, I also strongly feel the friction with the West that this country has endured during the Westernization path after the Meiji Restoration, which has many similarities with the situation in China today ......
‘Disappearing homeland’ is about finding a home that has disappeared or forgotten. Nowadays, more and more people leave their hometowns in pursuit of a better city life, gradually forgetting and abandoning them. It carries my memories of my hometown and also misses the regrets of faded traditional things ......
Art today can give you anomie, no problem. bittersweet? You got it. Tristesse? What size you want that in? But great art, as defined by those in the great-art-defining business, is almost never about simple, unironic happiness ......
My inspiration for this collection comes from my passion of walking around at night. Night will blur all the use of your senses. You can't see the things around you clearly, so you can't walk according to the established circuit in your brain. Based on this, I set up a persona from outer space, a creature whose different information processing mechanisms and cognition enable it to use our senses in different ways, and most of the senses we rely on are not necessarily functional to it ......