Lost and Found
迷途知返
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Chinese seal engraving
篆刻
150 cm x 150 cm x 11 cm
The way of being a successful person or acting ideally in competitive society is always hypocritical. We are taught to be smooth and slick in establishing social relations, which restricts and twists our true self. All these implicit social norms become a set of chains that restrains me from breaking my roles, as if they are a spell. It unconsciously creates a giant and complex maze. I am immensely puzzled by it and a desire to escape has since emerged. Thus, in this project, I intend to use a playful manner to merge nine-fold script into the maze in order to imitate my desire of getting rid of the implicit social norms where individuality is violated and where mechanisation prevails. I also consider it as a process to enter the self-healing process.
立身處世望獲取成就,總少不得虛偽伺人,為了行事八面玲瓏,就先得隱藏和扭曲自我。這些不成文的規範似是符咒,使我盲目遵從並受其約束。在不知不覺間,其形成為一個偌大的迷宮,令我開始產生迷惘並出現了逃離的慾望。因此,我希望以趣味的手法把九疊篆融入迷宮之中,以表達自身渴望能擺脫機械化的規範,並視其為治癒的過程。