Tracey Emin became an instant hit in 1999, when her installation My Bed became one of the most controversial and high-profile works in the Turner awards exhibition. The Tate Gallery’s masterpiece of her 1998 attempt to turn four days of self-deprivation after a failed relationship into an unmade bed surrounded by tights, downed bottles, post-snack bags, medicine boxes, empty cigarette boxes and broken slippers caused an immediate sensation. This is also duchamp with “urinal” after the creation of the work “spring”, the attention of the ready-made works of art. What she shows is the private part of a person, but the part that is common to everyone.

Ultralow clay was first born in Germany and gradually spread throughout Europe, and then through Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to the mainland of China. The material has strong plasticity and gorgeous color, and the artisan can knead it freely and create it at will. Is a collection of clay, paper clay, sculpture clay, clay and other advantages of the latest manual creation materials, it can be used with wood, metal, sequins, glass and other materials perfect combination, the production of works do not need to barbecue, in 24 to 48 hours can be naturally dried and elastic, not broken, can be long-term preservation. Ultralight clay is more popular in Japan. It is a new environmental friendly, non-toxic and natural air-dried handmade molding material.

Basic tools:
Crowbar – making thin slices
Dice – used to clip small parts
White glue – used to bond clay, and other materials
Glue mudboard – clay strips, compressed, very versatile
Scissors – having a quick, non-clay scissors is really important
Detail pin – pleated artifact, mostly used for clothes, hair fold texture, etc.
Pill stick – used to press the eye socket, make a hat, etc.
Spatula – used to smooth the seams, damp a little water, can also be used to make facial features
Base board – used to fix the body of the doll, can also be used to insert the head, dry, etc.
Pliers + aluminum wire – the two match, mostly used for support
Cutting board – used to protect the table when using sharp tools such as knives
Carving knife – used to cut dry clay, very sharp

Extended production

I asked some students to read the following short sentences and recorded them:

hi, are you ok?

interesting

it will be fine

wow!

i know， right?

good for you

calm down

I’m listening

adorable!

Let’s keep in touch

see you

yeah yeah

sure……

Here are two examples:

I think in everyday life, others don’t really feel your pain, they can only repeat some standard polite words to reply to you, which will only aggravate your stress.

I put these voices on top of each other, creating a very stressful and crowded atmosphere that I could share my anxiety with the audience.

Combined with the previous plane image, the final result is as follows:

Today I visited The Admonitions Scroll in the British museum. The painting is so fragile because of its age that it is exhibited for only six weeks a year.

The Admonitions Scroll is a Chinese narrative painting on silk that is traditionally ascribed to Gu Kaizhi (ca. 345–ca. 406). The full title of the painting is Admonitions of the Court Instructress (Chinese: 女史箴圖; pinyin: Nǚshǐ zhēn tú). It was painted to illustrate a poetic text written in 292 by the poet-official Zhang Hua (232–300). The text itself was composed to reprimand Empress Jia (257–300) and to provide advice to the women in the imperial court. The painting illustrates this text with scenes depicting anecdotes about exemplary behaviour of historical palace ladies, as well as with more general scenes showing aspects of life as a palace lady.

The all-chinese painting, viewed by native English speakers in Britain’s dimly lit pavilion, is a wonderful way to transcend time and culture.

I like to use characters in my works, and I prefer Chinese characters to English. On the one hand, as a Chinese, Chinese characters are directly combined with my growing experience and cultural background. When I analyze myself, Chinese can more accurately express my thoughts and feelings. On the other hand, Chinese characters are one of the few ideographs still in use in the world. Compared with English, Chinese characters have a layer of visual information. In my opinion, this layer of knowledge has unique decoration and information content, and it is easier for the picture to achieve structural balance without omissions.

Therefore, I also did some tests on Chinese font layout and prepared to use it in my work.

I found most Hollywood cartoons, the mouth shape is always consistent with the lines.

Rather than saying that Hollywood “choose” a rigorous style from the beginning, I believe that in the early days of cartoon development, those pioneers did not think that “the mouth shape” is an optional solution. Mr. Magasa said that Max Fleischer also directly inspired Walt Disney’s Eadweard Muybridge. When they were thinking about the animation at the top of the era, they were still using the turning machine. Become a dynamic photo, a new form of early film. The prototype of the cartoon is the process of cartoonizing the movie in the cradle. When the sound movie is on the rise, because the characters in the movie are right-handed, the early animators will also default to the characters in the cartoon. They did not give up the choice of “no match”, but did not know that this option existed at the beginning. Waiting for excellence to become an industry standard, it is difficult to regress.

In fact, when dubbing, as long as the “keyframe” of the lip is right, the average viewer can’t see it.

So I asked my classmates to make models, let them send out the syllables I requested, and took their faces, and they could be used as a mouth shape.

I asked many of my Chinese friends what they remembered as the five most annoying lines their parents said and what they think.

A:

1. No conscience. (The unmistakable tone will only make me think that there is no conscience. Conscience does not mean that you are always right.)
2. You have to be considerate of your parents. (Who can understand me?)
3. Where are your parents sorry for you? Which of the things you wear now is not earned by your parents? (So, you can change my thoughts arbitrarily? I can’t help myself not being born. I was so sorry that when I was born, I had to enjoy everything that you gave and forced to accept everything you instill. Now I have my own judgment. But you told me that if you raise your parents, you have to listen to your parents. You can’t question them.)
4. You do not respect parents. (I really can’t stand it. I really feel annoyed. Respect is mutual. Can I suggest to you that you have more euphemism and more concealment?)
5. Don’t cry, cry again, believe it or not, I will slap you now. (I feel hurt, you can be beaten by me when I am angry, but I can’t say it, or even cry.)

B:

1. I am for you. (Sneaking away my pets, I have been thinking of myself as a failed owner for many years)
2. You don’t mean we don’t have the skills! (Every conflict must be mentioned, heaven and earth conscience, I can get up with this night when I sleep late)
3. What are you giving me! (The economically independent party is more and more feel that it is too special to live.)
4. How do you get along with others about your personality? ! Nothing is welcome! (I just laugh and don’t talk)
5. I didn’t teach you so that you are so uncultivated. (This kind of words are very ironic from her mouth. Although I don’t think I am good, but it is not too bad, I can’t attribute the reason to her. But it’s still very uncomfortable to listen to)

C:

1. You are love and I am right! (I don’t want to live according to the lifestyle you provide is rebellious?)
2. What a big deal! Your people are all born to me! (Turning my diary chat record when I found it, she thought it was a trivial matter, saying that I was too sensitive.)
3. You have to look at this kind of thing every day and you have to study hard. (Starting in a TV series in junior high school, you can say that these are useless, you can see this kind of thing, which TV series is not in love!)
4. How are you so selfish! (just got shot again)
5. I don’t respect your mother at all. (Chinese parents often have problems with their own self and forget that adult children have human rights.)

Eisenstein’s films belong to modernist films and have a very strong formalistic style. The picture is carefully selected, and it is very particular, in order to highlight some of its special meanings. So every frame of the film is like a modernist painting or photography. He emphasizes the meaning of the local. On this basis, it emphasizes the meaning of the partial picture connection. So the concept of his picture frame is very important. Eisenstein even regarded the film as a special painting.

Bazin used the film as a window. What he means is that although we know that the screen world is fictitious, we should have a belief that by observing the screen of the screen, we can let our eyes pass through the screen and reach the reality behind the screen, so he is talking about one. Dialectics of truth and falsehood, or a dialectic of fiction and truth. Fundamentally, this view relies on a typical phenomenology, or on the structure of our beliefs. For example, we see a reflection of our lives. The reality of the film, although we know that this is a fictional story, but we say it is very real. Or this kind of real and powerful hit our heart, aroused our sense of moving and even lofty. Or we as an audience The profound recognition of the real world reflected in the film is the world of experience in our own lives. In this case, the movie is the window.

Maiji is a student of the symbolicist Roland Barth. He started his studies in linguistics, later studied psychoanalysis, and finally combined the two, so he had the imaginable signifier. The word can refer to linguistics, and the word of imagination comes from Lacan’s psychoanalysis. To put it simply, he believes that mainstream narrative films, such as the feature films represented by Hollywood, are basically a mirror. Watching movies is a mirroring activity, that is, an activity of identifying and satisfying desires. The reason why the word mirror is used is related to Lacan’s explanation. The psychoanalyst Lacan uses the metaphor of the mirror in explaining the child’s psychological activities of self-identification. Probably means that when a child, mainly a little boy, did not form a concept of the world around him just after he was born, he is a small meat ball. At this time, the world is a chaotic world, and then he and his mother constantly communicate. Remembering the appearance of the mother, when one day the mother held him in the mirror, he was surprised to find that the image of the mother appeared in the mirror, and there was a small human figure around him, so he found himself, or Said to have completed self-identification. At this stage, there are only two people in the world for him, me and you. So people have a concept of bilateral relations. This stage is called the mirror phase by Lacan, and the most important psychological behavior to complete this stage is the imaginative identity. This stage is also called the stage of the Oedipus. The characteristics of this stage are that life is happy, do whatever you want, carefree, and the mother can satisfy her unlimited desires. Of course, there is language intervention in the future, that is, the involvement of the father, taking the little boy away from the mother and integrating into the wider social life, completely forming the identification of the self and others, that is, my relationship with the world. Only really built up.

Influential photographer Jo Spence’s (1934–92) work documents her diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent healthcare regime throughout the 1980s. Her raw and confrontational photography is shown alongside Oreet Ashery’s (b. 1966) award-winning miniseries ‘Revisiting Genesis’, 2016. Ashery’s politically engaged work explores loss and the lived experience of chronic illness in the digital era. In October 2019, a new commission by Ashery, exploring the recent death of her father, will be added.

This exhibition challenged my understanding of ‘misbehaving’ or ‘untypical’ bodies, and reflect on how illness shapes identity. On the other hand, I became more aware of how to express my painful situation in a powerful way.

There are four common movie proportions.

1, 4:3

From the day when the film was born, the picture proportion of the film has been changing all the time. The most original and most popular picture is 4:3. This ratio was established 50 years ago, but now it seems to be very uncomfortable, because the human eye is horizontal and long, and it is more comfortable to look at things that are wide and flat and receive more information, and the ratio of 4:3 is too square.

2, 1.85:1

After the 1950s, a wide screen with a 1.85:1 picture ratio was born. This kind of wide screen is called college wide screen. In order to match this scale, the traditional film will screen part of the film up and down with a shielding object when shooting the film, so that the scale of the picture is 1.85:1. Later, the projection size of the screen is adjusted to present a wide-screen effect. However, this implementation of this picture scale, there is an obvious disadvantage, is that it does not take full advantage of the height of the film, waste a lot of effective film space.

3, 2.35:1

After the 1970s, there was born a kind of picture ratio of 2.35:1 wide screen, its technical name is called “anamorphic wide screen”. It didn’t take long for the genre to become mainstream. Because this picture scale is the most consistent with the human eye viewing habits, but also can fully show the spectacular scene. Although it is also shot with traditional film, the use of special optical lenses instead of masking the film makes it a wide screen, so 2.35:1 wide screen avoids the disadvantage of wasting the available space of the film.

4. 16:9

The current 16:9. This proportion is mainly due to the television industry to imitate the movie screen and the birth of a picture proportion. Due to the 16:9 ratio in the television industry now occupies a place, there are also some 16:9 widescreen films.

Although the various proportions of the black edges have their own causes, either because of the cost savings on film or because of the composition of the picture, the black edges now have a symbolic meaning that people can associate with the sense of flim when they see them. I wanted to add black edges to my own work to add a sense of narrative.