Pattern

Video Sculpture
Biological art


Duration
Dec.2022

Tools

Madmapper
StableDiffusion

Description

People always use the same behavior patterns in the past to shape their similar experiences in the future. Preferences shape themselves and shape the outcome of events at the same time.

Unspeakable is a video sculpture, images drawn by AI generated. The projected carrier is Scoby that has been cultivated for 6 weeks and dried. The project creation opportunity was that one day the best memory pushed to me by my mobile phone, it is a piece of glue that was squeezed and deformed in the yellow outer packaging contained. It is an ordinary documentary photo, although the subject is very clear, but the narrative is very abstract. It contains all past experiences that are difficult to describe in words.

People always use the same behavior patterns in the past to shape their similar experiences in the future. Preferences shape themselves and shape the outcome of events at the same time. This is very similar to any creature, and the right temperature and sugar in the process of cultivating a scoby can make it thrive. I tried adding undiluted coffee granules and my hair to blur the relationship between it and me.

Scoby is full of vitality and is accompanied by an unacceptable rancid smell, just like those moments in the past when the body was squeezed to the point of collapse, but the spirit was shining brightly. Drying allows it to become a projected vehicle, and it dies with it. The scab-like changing image penetrates the dead scoby's body, as if there is still life inside the object.