2022

Zhou Zhou

I’m Zhou, walking around and observing the world with curiosity and a mind full of random thoughts. Interested in finding the connections between human beings and nature. Keep learning and experimenting with different types of media and deliver the conceptual ideas to the audiences.

Appearing

Our consciousness is made of the things we see and the things we experienced. I think of my life as a circle, everything is happening in a certain order whether it’s expected or unexpected and they repeat over and over again in everyday life.
Things going on around ourselves as something private. While within some intersections of human’s unintentional behavior, unique coincidences happened. I'm seeking to find the connections between the city and the expression of public's inherent habits.
My attention was drawn by things on the street that wasn't supposed to appear or objects that aren’t supposed to be there. However they form into collections of pictures. I started to think about the philosophy behind it, connections between accidence and deliberate could be built from taking on-purpose actions.
Aim is to seek the interesting order and textures and the reality of the city, organize and alter them in my own way intentionally to create the handmade booklet. Finding the connections between two opposite points "accidental" and "intentional".

Yunyun

"Yunyun" in Buddhism refers to all living beings in the world; later it refers to the many ordinary people.
The concept of this virtual space is to provide everyone a quite and comfort place to connect with their inner self, reflect and take the moment to reflect spiritually and find self a comfort.
Started from the inspiration of Buddhism since very young ages, I have always held high respect and devotion to the Buddhist statue and temples from deep of my heart. Whenever I see them, I can feel something, I can feel them. This is what I believe, and when I grow up, I realized not everyone is just like me, many people don't have a belief, and this doesn't just mean the religious aspect, but more of an inner belief.
In my opinion, statues don't represent buddha, because buddha belongs to everyone, and it doesn't have a specific figure at the beginning. The reason how statues developed for buddha is to help public be respectful and insist their believes with a specific figure. "All figures are being-less", things is always changing its form. (from the "Diamond Sutra"). The only existing thing is the mind in oneself. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to come from, nothing to go, nothing to be one, nothing to be true, nothing more.

Family Portrait

Eating has always been an important ritual in Chinese daily life and traditions. All of these are because we regard food as a kind of emotional sustenance. Eating as a ceremony could enhance our connection within family, friendship and affection.
Chinese dishes see ingredients as the very essential part. The way of naming and plating all came from the ingredients. The aesthetic style of plating from the 90s has interested me. For this project, I'm going to discover about the visual concept of Chinese dishes, and reshow them in a different way with something seems nonsense, toys or even nail clippers from the vintage shops. Seeking for the connections between childhood, family and food. It implies the deconstruction and remodeling of Chinese traditional family.

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