Revisiting the Phenomenon

Toast sewn with delicate ribbons, a chess set made of colorful haribos, spots on the skin in the shape of pearls, a grapefruit lifted in mid-air… As I designed and took these strange, bright, and somewhat decadent photographs, I surprisingly began to feel clearly that the emotions of these re-perceived objects were like a river, trickling through my body. From my fingertips to my chest, to behind my ears. Most marvelously, I could even experience the process of changing emotions. At different moments, whenever I tried to clarify what I was feeling from those objects at the moment, I could describe it with different adjectives.

Phenomena always overflow our initial perception of them. To revisit the phenomenon is to photographically disrupt the order in which things are taken for granted. When I focus on the phenomenon for a long time, I begin to revisit my experience. At the same time, I re-experience it in a different way and learn to remain highly curious about everyday life. In the process of revisiting everyday phenomena over and over again, tedium began to collide with weirdness, novelty, and profound meaning. 

I could see a world in which everything was full of emotions: a large turquoise meadow with orange and blue mushrooms growing out of it, a small dewdrop on the edge of the mushroom wobbling and melting into the soil in no time. Pleasant, moist, and breathing.

Ongoing project (2023——)

缝上细丝带的吐司,肌肤上珍珠形状的斑点,在半空中尖叫的西柚……当我设计并拍下这些怪诞又明亮的照片时,我开始清楚感受到这些物体的情感像一条河,涓涓流过我的身体。從我的指尖,到胸膛,再到耳後。现象总是溢出了我们对它的最初感知。重温现象,像是以摄影的方式打乱习以为常的事物排列秩序。借鉴现象学哲学家 Jean-Luc Marion(2002)的观点,感知并非静止的瞬间,而是一个持续溢出的过程——现象总是在初次感知后不断延展并深化。当我长期关注日常现象,我开始重新审视我的个人经验。我试图捕捉瞬间的情感波动与生命的脆弱性,以及日常生活中的细腻情感与时间的交织。同时,我从不同的视角重新体验它,且对日常生活保持高度好奇。在一遍遍重新观察日常现象的过程中,乏味开始碰撞出怪异、新奇但深长的意味。

我仿佛看到一个万物富有情感的世界:大片碧绿的草地,草地上长出橙色和蓝色相间的蘑菇,蘑菇的边沿上的

一顆小露珠摇摇欲坠,不一会儿又融进了泥土。愉悦,湿润,并呼吸着。

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