While I haven’t decided what to do yet, but like a 50-day practice, the exploration of relationship runs through.Exploring the connections between various things. It can be a relationship between people. It can also be the relationship between people and nature.  

The form I want to present is always related to mechanics. The precise beauty of machinery is full of the charm of order, and it is also a language of science and technology. If technology is a kind of vocal language and meticulous algorithm, the life of human beings born with technology is constantly reshaping the whole world. The rapid development of science and technology has blurred the boundaries of cities, and various advanced technologies have changed the appearance of cities, allowing light and darkness to coexist. We live in an age where borders are dying. The boundaries between the virtual and the real, the boundaries between dreams and life, and the boundaries between humans and machines are constantly being weakened.

I wrote about the relationship between humans, nature and cities. Below is a sketch:

link：https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOMBVdNU=/

This mind map focuses on the connection between humans, cities and nature. I listed some elements about cities and nature. Then express their most obvious connections. Over the next few days, I will continue to mine and narrow down these connections, eventually focusing my observations on one of these points.

This sketch also shows a “Cornell Box”. These elements and relationship are relevant to every aspect of my life. Include the elements I care most about, and more deeper connections that I ignore.

Below is the box I did:

This tube is made of plaster, and the “ruins” inside are sculptural paste and some black paper figures. In Chinese philosophy, balance is a very important thing. The development of anything is in a state of balance. The consequences of breaking it may not be expected by anyone. These coexisting relationships include between man and man, between man and nature, between development and destruction, between establishment and destruction. What ensues may be a bitter struggle or disaster. Personal emotional outbursts can also turn into a disaster. In my observations, the stories behind these relationship are fascinating.

 

3 Artists：

1- Philip Beesley:

Hylozoic Ground

Hylozoic Ground at the Canadian Pavilion in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini is a project designed by Philip Beesley, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, with engineering director Rob Gorbet, experimental chemist Rachel Armstrong, and many collaborators.

The Hylozoic Ground environment can be described as a suspended geotextile that gradually accumulates hybrid soil from ingredients drawn from its surroundings. Akin to the functions of a living system, embedded machine intelligence allows human interaction to trigger breathing, caressing, and swallowing motions and hybrid metabolic exchanges. These empathic motions ripple out from hives of kinetic valves and pores in peristaltic waves, creating a diffuse pumping that pulls air, moisture and stray organic matter through the filtering Hylozoic membranes. ‘Living’ chemical exchanges are conceived as the first stages of self-renewing functions that might take root within this architecture.

2-Sven Windszus

Lebensraum

http://www.svenwindszus.com/lebensraum/

Earth’s population continues to grow, which is destroying our living environment. Many people have already felt it clearly: heat, drought, floods, extreme weather, rising sea levels… Although we are aware of these, few people can actually change their behavior patterns.

3- Studio Swine

Infinity Blue is an immersive installation that pays homage to the cyanobacteria, one of the world’s smallest living beings. 3 billion years ago, cyanobacteria first developed oxygenic photosynthesis. In doing so, they changed the nature of our planet. The sculpture is a monument to their vital creation, which continues to provide the oxygen in every breath we take.

Showing us the unseen world in the form of installations and interactions is what I think is a great form. The film itself is also very infectious.