Jun Shu

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I had the first meeting with Sarah. Sarah helped me a lot and gave me a lot of inspiration.

First of all, she gave me two references. I like the VR game “Where Thoughts Go” very much. I think this game is very similar to what I want to express. Many people store their thoughts and meetings for their relatives, or other ideas in this game, and these memories become to be many stars. This is a kind of connection between people, which is also what I want very much. But the difference is that I may focus more on the complete life of an individual instead of that there are thousands of individuals scattered in the game like stars. I hope that the memory fragments in the work can finally be integrated into a complete individual. The second wishing tree project is actually very similar to the VR game, just one in the virtual world and the other in the real world. But there is a problem with both of these projects. I think their interaction is one-way. It is just that individuals are expressing their feelings, but they have not received any feedback. Moreover, these two works of art focus on the audience who make the voice, and the protagonist in my works I prefer to be the patient with Alzheimer’s disease who is remembered by the audience.

I found many other related works of art

Among them, I like Christian Boltanski’s works very much. He has fully focused on the relationship between memory and death. I will further study her works.

Another artist I like very much is Sarah Sze. I think her form is very good. It combines traditional painting art and architectural art. I think my final product will also close in this direction.

As for the concept of the difference between memory and death in different religions, I am also exploring. Unlike Western countries, which have a wide history of Christianity, most people in China are actually atheists. We are more of an ancestor worship, that is, the so-called three generations are all gods, so our feelings for the deceased relatives are very profound.

My next question is to explore memory, the connection between people, and the relationship between death.

Hi!