Plastic wings

"Plastic Wings" draws upon the ancient Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus. After experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic for a period of time, I re-entered shopping malls in Shanghai and was struck by the many man-made landscapes. Fragility and permanence, predicament and expectation - all sorts of complex and contradictory feelings were bound together, much like the wings of Icarus, which symbolize not only hope but also inevitable destruction. This made me contemplate the ways in which history repeats and changes through sensory aspects.

With these feelings, I frequently walked through the mall, while also re-examining my surrounding environment (both physical and psychological).By recreating and posing what i saw and felt, I attempted to translate these hidden emotions into a series of symbols.

In doing so, I uncovered and explained the ambiguity of certain symbols, as well as the complex interrelations between different symbols. As I explored the flexibility of these symbols and sifted through the archive negatives I had collected, the boundary between reality and fiction has become less significant. Over time, the pictures began to overlap, leaving behind only the emotions that were caught in the labyrinth of structure.