19 Feb 2012

Box Project

The Box Project tries to challenge to traditional ideas of sculpture, exploring process of transformation. There is no specific meaning in every box; the meaning is created in an instant moment when audiences open the box.  I was confronted with many challenges and hardships in this project, towards how to create a specific meaning in every box.  Actually, I just made some different emotions in every box, like surprise, confusion and unsafety.  Even though sometimes that does not work out, at least, people is curious about these same closed boxes that makes them would like to open these boxes.  The most important thing is that I need to make them do not feel boring when they open the first box and make them still want to open the other ones.   




In this box, I destroyed hundreds of books or booklet I collected by cutting and boring, and then used the paper materials to create a new book.  To some extent this is a kind of brutality, but the outcome is beautiful.  In the process of doing it, I create a contradiction of damage and reconstruction.  The box is a tomb of hundreds of books but a reconstructed artist’s book as well.


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