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Miao Xiaochun摄影作品
About H2O-A Study
of Art History
Miao Xiaochun
I really
don’t know where I was from or where I will go, but I know many
substances go into and out of my body every day, among which is
water-H2O. Before entering my body, it has gone through
numerous living things: plants, animals, and human beings; and it
will again go through numerous plants, animals and human beings
after being released from my body. I am just one of the containers
holding it temporarily, or one of the points it flows by. Water has
been recycling through oceans, the sky, and the land. The process
has begun ever since remote ages, continues to the present, and will
continue into future, never stopping, repeating forever in an
endless way. Does it carry and deliver certain information about the
source and destination of life? All forms of life and water vitally
interrelate with each other? Do they thus show compassion and
concern for each other? Is constantly changing life, which is
delicate and subtle like water, recycling endlessly as water does?
Will vanished life condense again at some other place and return to
earth just like evaporated water drops condensing into rain, snow,
or frost?
Compared with the history of all forms of life, the history of art
is too short to be worth mentioning; but compared with individual
life, the history of art is fairly long. Selecting from the long as
well as short history of art ten works involving water which touch
me to the heart, I try to depict through latest digital technology
the grand inter-linkage of life played by water. The thousands of
characters in these works have been replaced by a three dimensional
model of my own image created with computer, a kind of
“metabolism”—just like water flowing into my body：
in this way, I have “flowed” into different
works of other times and have “generated” entirely new art works
which have blood and flesh relations with the original ones.
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