2 Seconds
2009
20h x 16w x 13.5d cm
Bronze
We learn so much from water. Bruce Lee once said that "empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Put water into a cup. Becomes the cup. Put water into a teapot. Becomes the teapot. Water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water my friend.” The dramatic changing characteristic of water inspired me into creating this work. How do we, as a modern citizen living in city, visually understand water? What is water to us? Where does it come from? How do we understand this substance from a contemporary point of view?
Just like the impressionists let go of the understanding of “original” colour of objects as then they can really see the true colour of the world (as we need to understand that the things we see in our daily life are affected by the colour of lights that apply onto them). Sometimes we have to let go of our intelligence and existing knowledge in order to acquire an alternative view of the world.
Letting go of our understanding of how water is being collected and stored into reservoirs, filtered, treated and pumped into water-storage tanks, pass through all the pipes and finally reached the buildings … most of us DO NOT harvest water now. We do not know what is the source and context of water nor how valuable water is; what we merely experience everyday is that we turn the tap valves on, and then liquidized substances are being magically (and conventionally) pouring out from a solid wall. That moment is almost like alchemical, magical or religious happening: transforming something from one state (solid) into another states (liquid).
And my work would like to tackle these ideas. First it presents a state of changing of matters from one state into another. The solid, rigid and dark bricks-like objects are transformed into goldenly fluid-looking substance within a single scene. Let us not to forget that these two components are actually made of the same matter: bronze, just possess a high plasticity like water that can be shifted into almost anything we want it to be.
The golden colour of the fluid-looking lower part of the sculpture also reminds viewers that those coming out of the tap are indeed very precious sources that we may just careless wasted. The volume of the lower part of the sculpture imitate the volume of water that being flown out by leaving the tap running for about 2 seconds (Research showed that by leaving the tap running it wastes about 6 liters water per a minute). Visualizing the volume helps us to understand how incredibly careless we are when we use water everyday.
The fluid-looking part are not made to look exactly like water passing through a tap in our daily scenario as that may depreciate the impact of the feeling of “heaviness” of pouring out precious elements for 2 seconds as well as that may be too accustomed to the audiences. Yet we may not oversee the impact of 2 seconds as a noticeable amount of treasures are wasted much more easily than we think.
2009
20h x 16w x 13.5d cm
Bronze
We learn so much from water. Bruce Lee once said that "empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Put water into a cup. Becomes the cup. Put water into a teapot. Becomes the teapot. Water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water my friend.” The dramatic changing characteristic of water inspired me into creating this work. How do we, as a modern citizen living in city, visually understand water? What is water to us? Where does it come from? How do we understand this substance from a contemporary point of view?
Just like the impressionists let go of the understanding of “original” colour of objects as then they can really see the true colour of the world (as we need to understand that the things we see in our daily life are affected by the colour of lights that apply onto them). Sometimes we have to let go of our intelligence and existing knowledge in order to acquire an alternative view of the world.
Letting go of our understanding of how water is being collected and stored into reservoirs, filtered, treated and pumped into water-storage tanks, pass through all the pipes and finally reached the buildings … most of us DO NOT harvest water now. We do not know what is the source and context of water nor how valuable water is; what we merely experience everyday is that we turn the tap valves on, and then liquidized substances are being magically (and conventionally) pouring out from a solid wall. That moment is almost like alchemical, magical or religious happening: transforming something from one state (solid) into another states (liquid).
And my work would like to tackle these ideas. First it presents a state of changing of matters from one state into another. The solid, rigid and dark bricks-like objects are transformed into goldenly fluid-looking substance within a single scene. Let us not to forget that these two components are actually made of the same matter: bronze, just possess a high plasticity like water that can be shifted into almost anything we want it to be.
The golden colour of the fluid-looking lower part of the sculpture also reminds viewers that those coming out of the tap are indeed very precious sources that we may just careless wasted. The volume of the lower part of the sculpture imitate the volume of water that being flown out by leaving the tap running for about 2 seconds (Research showed that by leaving the tap running it wastes about 6 liters water per a minute). Visualizing the volume helps us to understand how incredibly careless we are when we use water everyday.
The fluid-looking part are not made to look exactly like water passing through a tap in our daily scenario as that may depreciate the impact of the feeling of “heaviness” of pouring out precious elements for 2 seconds as well as that may be too accustomed to the audiences. Yet we may not oversee the impact of 2 seconds as a noticeable amount of treasures are wasted much more easily than we think.
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囧
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