Plastic Wings

Plastic Wings bases on myth and pandemic background.It uses varieties of photo creation methods to explore that in my visual symbolic clues how history repeats and changes on sensuous aspects.

Plastic Wings draws on the ancient Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus. For a period of time, following the COVID-19 pandemic, I re-entered the shopping mall in Shanghai and saw many man-made landscapes. Fragility and permanence, predicament and expectation, all kinds of complex and contradictory feelings bound together like the wings of Icarus, which symbolize not only hope but also inevitable destruction. Also, it makes me think about the ways in which history repeats and changes on sensuous aspects.

With such feelings, on the one hand, I frequently walked into the mall, on the other hand, I also began to re-examine my surrounding environment (both physical and psychological). I try to transfer this hiding part into a clue of symbols from what I saw and feel, and I also found out and explained the ambiguity of the same symbol and sensible relations between different symbols.

In the flexibility of symbols and the process of shooting and looking at archive negatives I collected, the line between reality and illusion began to dissolve. As time passed, pictures began to overlap. Leaving only emotion that lingered in the labyrinth of structure.