OPD#2

I decided to change my idea of making an album because I think to be displayed in an exhibition, a flat surface work cannot attract viewers much and I just came up a new idea of a small installation.

As I have searched about the definitions of ANALOGUE, I will still choose the most common one of it: something that is analogous or similar to something else.

I will put a round glass tank which is full of soil in the box. Inside the soil, I will bury some historical or typical things in the world, which can be seen a little outside of the tank. And a paper man is standing on the soli, looking at the “sky”, which is looking at the viewers too.

 

So the box can be seen as a world itself which is an analogue of the world we are living in. When the paper man in the tank looking at us, it just like sometimes we may look at the sky and think about what the outer space would be.

I believe that we are not the only intelligent life in the space and there may be infinite “boxes” in the world. I just create one by myself, to suggest the viewers the infinite possibilities of the other world may just around us. We will never be the only one.

I have searched a lot about the installation art work, but I didn`t find one that`s similar to mine. I found that most of them are far more abstract than mine, and I wondered that if it means my work was too obvious for art.

And I found some works whose theme is also about the world.

http://www.galerieursmeile.com/artists/artists/ai-weiwei/world-map-2006/workdetail.html

This one uses map to show the vast land of our earth. While I use the more detailed things such as soil, grass or something else.

  

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/20/dasha-zhukova-gallery-moscow 

And this one also use clutter to express the theme.