⋄Water Substance
水体
雕塑，实验室培养｜Sculpture, Laboratory-cultivation, 2024
The "Water Substance" series is a collaborative experiment of bio-sculpture, which continues my understanding of the "Crystalline Layer." It is an observation of the intertwining, embracing, and reconfiguration of biology and the environment. The metaphor of water is initially presented through staining tests on the substrate. Subsequently, it was born through the sculptural forms: crystallization of clouds, contours of the land, and the morphologies of organisms, as well as the flow of consciousness.
Like the separation and gathering, the drying and moistening of water, slime molds constantly encounter or bid farewell to themselves amidst changes. Information is transmitted freely through the cytoplasmic streaming, allowing slime molds to replace the rhetoric of death and rebirth with dormancy and awakening in this freer-to-come-and-go shuttle. And in the dispersion and reunion of life, accept all the never-met or long-awaited with equanimity. Yet, it is precisely the traces of life that have emerged within these fluctuations that have converged to shape the current landscape of water-substance sculptures.
Connecting the narrative and imagination spanning from the Proterozoic to the present, slime molds carry this leapfrog, showing their comprehension of the assembled and dispersed material cycling across timespan. From vegetation to earth-vein-like fractals, slime molds flow airily and magnificently, like water, through the encounters between environments. What will you read from it?
“水体”系列是一项生物雕塑的合作性实验，延续着艺术家对”结晶层“的理解。是一次对生物与环境「缠绵，拥抱，重组」的观测。水体的隐喻，首先通过基质的染色测试呈现。其次通过雕塑的造型：在云层的结晶、土地的轮廓、生物的形态和意识的流动间诞生。
如同水的分离与汇聚，干涸与润泽，黏菌在变化中不断与自身相遇或告别。信息通过细胞质环流彼此畅通地传递着，使黏菌在这种来去自由的穿梭里，将死亡与新生的修辞，更替为休眠与苏醒。并在生命的分散与重聚间，平淡地接纳所有的素未谋面与久别重逢。而正是在这些波动间产生的生命痕迹，融合为了水体雕塑目前呈现的图景。
连接元古宙至今的叙事与想象，黏菌带着这种跨越性，展现着对「时间跨度中集合分散的物质循环」的理解。从植被到地脉般的分形，黏菌如同水一样轻盈又壮观地在环境的际遇间流淌。你会从中读到什么？
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