Watch Out

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2023

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Medium: glass, clay, hair, steel, resin, crayon

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Size: Multiple size

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The heavy and tired bodies of flies with the size of a human arm sprawl across the road. Caution lines and triangular road signs seeming to scream to pedestrians: watch out!

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This work is inspired by my interaction with flies, and the transience and fragility of this relationship. My encounter with the fly can be seen as an accidental crack, in which the boundary between creature and human is blurred, oscillating between the visible and the invisible. Industrial development, road construction, the commodity economy... these issues seem to strangle the existence of all survivors at the same time, the cruel reality of the problem entwined like a vine with the ecosystem.

 

I try to use fragile materials such as ceramic and glass to make flies and human body fragments. The fly's head, the combination of human torso and insect abdomen, the transparent wings, and the light pink hair. The size and color of these body fragments are different from both humans and insects, yet they belong to both humans and insects, and their existence is magnified from neglect to being like an archaeological fossil fragment, carrying clues of archives and lived experience. I want to use sculpture, installation and photography to shape a fictional scenario, to touch on the cruelty of reality and the fragility of human communities from a non-human perspective.