⋄Leaf Bird


Sculpture. 2025
Hand-textured surface, aluminium, stone, shell, reverie, attunement.
Size differs by variant type.

Painting. 2024
Paper, ink, bamboo, reverie, attunement.
Each mountain forest has its own ecological characteristics and ancient atmosphere; the Leaf Birds are observed and brought forth out of these very roots. Grounded in my explorations of local ecological environments, the work takes as its objects of inquiry the traces of plants and animals that have undergone long evolutionary processes and have persisted into the present—traces gathered through walking and attentive looking. These beings are born out of embodied contact and dialogue with the mountain range, emerging from those moments that strike a deep chord. When I was creating this work in Iceland, my beloved parrot passed away, yet that night it came to me in a dream. Thus, as I have long sensed, the soulful quality of this work is not just about any known form of existence; rather, it points toward a kind of unknown we cannot put into words, and toward that subtle attunement between spirit and feeling.

As part of the current state of research on the Crystalline Layer, species and their connections to the environment speak among reverie through the luminous aura of imagination.


每片山林都有着自己不同的生态特征和远古气息，叶鸟是在这些根源之上被观测发掘出的。它们以我对当地生态环境的探索为基础，通过观察和行走间搜集到的那些经历漫长的演化过程、绵延至今的动植物痕迹为考察对象，在和这片山脉具身地接触与交流间、从那些触动心弦的时刻里诞生出的物种。当我在冰岛创作这件作品的时候，我心爱的鹦鹉去世了，但是它在那一晚的梦中向我飞来。所以就像我一直隐隐觉察的这件作品所具有的灵魂特质，它不仅仅在于已知的某种存在物，它指向着我们无法道明的未知、和灵与感受间的这份感应。

作为对结晶层研究的部分现状，物种及其和环境的联系，借由想象的光晕范围，在遐想者之间言说。




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