Static Dynamic Simulation
In 2020, I created this piece. I collected some metal scraps from an industrial waste recycling station in Beijing, including discarded lamps, bicycle chains, abandoned car parts, steel bars, and more. This was my first work using metal as a medium. It made me realize my special affinity for metal materials.
8/23/2020
Recycled metal, custom CNC gears
1.64' x 0.98' x 1.97'
“Everything has a life. In my past the necessities of our living and the conditions of the society of people have sent me out to be alone – out to the country, on the sea. One can be as lonely as one wishes, but it is impossible to be alone…even on the salt and sterile sea, wait for the calm and lie over the low rail to stare down into the blue glass water and what at first seems a pure medium begins to dance with motes, darting specks, and down at the threshold of the dark, ominous shadows turn and careen about…it is unbearable to conceive that anything cannot have life.”
---Jane Bennett
Using metal to simulate human dynamics—bending parts, assembling the skeleton, using steel bars as bones, and iron wires as muscles—I felt that this cold sculpture was imbued with human emotion and life. When I stared at it long enough, it seemed as though it had begun to move with the body I had given it.
