a yellow beak, black eyes, and a white body (installation view), 2022
white stoneware, boat chair, ink jet print, pencil, correction fluid, tape, oil pastel, screws
In conversation with Studies of Swans, the reiteration of the swan boat image, in turn, solidifies the falsified memory and claims space for its reappearance. Recalling and reimagining the swan boat from the perspective of a 3-year-old child, its huge white body was one of curiosity and excitement. Pulling the shot back to that of an adult, the swan boat, paradoxically solidified by the falsified memory, is a site of investigation. The placement of a ceramic swan boat “object” on an actual boat chair is a response and a question to the scale of time; the graphing paper normally used for precise modeling and construction is interrupted with personal marks and the contour of the imagined shape of the contact area between the boat body and the water surface. Pieces of obscure information are scattered on both planes — the wall and the floor — in an attempt to echo one another and activate the space. Is it an object in construction or is it the ruin and residue?
“天鹅船学习”项目的空间性延伸。当不曾出现的天鹅船变成场所，它在测绘图与遗留物二者的判定之间摇摆不定。