Watercolor, Ink on Paper
The continuation of human life has always been a subject of great concern. Whether in religion or realism, people are afraid of death, and eternal life has become a human aspiration. In addition to the theory and the realization of eternal life has been exploring. Both the mythological extension of life and the current technological exploration of the human body are practices that go against the laws of nature, trying to escape the end of life. Human's fear of the end of life has led to the pursuit of perfection for the continuation of life. Although it has obtained the eternal existence, it has caused the distortion of space and changed the natural rules of life on earth. Since the emergence of artificial intelligence as a perfect technology to assist human thinking about defects, human beings are no longer satisfied with the expansion and development of ideas. In the pursuit of higher performance of the body function, people try to apply technology to the human body, from an auxiliary role to a part of the human body.
The work mainly uses the way of drawing lines and watercolor display, and the only color in this project is red. Red represents human blood, which is compounded by natural circulation.
The inspiration of the work comes from thinking about life. With the rapid development and wide application of science and technology in the past 10 years, the real life of human beings has been gradually changed, and people in the new era live in an era of indispensable science and technology application. From the 2020s onwards, people can more clearly feel the extensive use of technology in human life and its impact, whether it is driverless taxis or robotic surgery. These technology products have reached a completely different height than before, will be the total replacement of human labor. People use
technology for human physical disabilities and medical assistance, but increasingly people want to use the power of technology to change the structure of the human body. In the future life, will human beings accept complete technological transformation in order to have a more "perfect" physical state and go against the natural body?
In a BBC story from 2022, "The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand," Patrick Paumen was described as injecting contactless payment microchips under the skin. “A microchip was first implanted into a human back in 1998, but it is only during the past decade that the technology has been available commercially. " This means that according to the development of society and the progress of technology, There has been a huge increase in acceptance of body modification.
The two works show the world of body modification and the world of receiving body modification respectively. I use a lot of lines to represent the complexity and illusion of the technological world.
I painted these two works by means of watercolor and drawing lines, and the colors were only black and white and red. I hope that red can become a color of concern because of the black and white background, red represents human blood, nature gives the human body the role of breathing, is the main life feature of human life.