The Tree exists
In Between Tick-tack Sounds
I Feel
Exhibition Views
展览呈现
The Dawn
2023, Xiamen, China 2023，厦门
Photography and Sound 摄影，声音
Dimensions variable 尺寸可变
click to scale up 点击放大
The Dusk
Statement 作品简介
This work is a synthetic experience combining photography and sound installation that shows the perceptual changes of day and night carried by the trees in the streets of Xiamen. Using sound to measure the life activities of the living beings around the trees and the soil to explore a space of self-narrative for the trees living, which is on the margins of human care under the process of urbanization. During my roaming around the city from morning to night, I chose those roads with a high flow of people in Xiamen and photographed the soil around the trees and the crisscrossed branches, while listening to the soundscape around them in-depth, and seeing the feelings that arise in the moment as a reference system for living with the trees, to imagine an audiovisual image of the dependence of the trees’ perceptions of the human being and the environment around them.
该作品以摄影声音装置展现了厦门街头树木所承载的白天与黑夜的感知变化，以声音测量道路树木与土壤四周的生灵的生命活动，来探索一个生活在城市化进程中处于人类关怀边缘的树木自叙事空间。在从早到晚的城市漫游中，我选取厦门人流量较大的道路，围绕着树生长的土壤以及纵横交错的树枝间进行拍摄，并同时深度聆听其周围的声景，以即时产生的感受作为当下与树共处的参考系，绘制树木感知人及周围环境的依存关系的视听图景。
During the daytime, oftentimes, people are in a hurry, and vehicles are speeding on the roads; trees mainly perform the function of public space, doing and being as a streetscape for people. Only when night comes, the neglected trees put off the traces of humanity and manifest together with the other beings around the habitat. They begin to reform their dynamics, in harmony with the melody of nature.
在白天，人们步履匆匆，道路上车辆往来，树木主要行使着公共空间职能和作为供人观赏的街景而存在。当夜晚到来，褪去人类痕迹的，不被注意的道路树木现身，与栖息身旁的生物开始进行丰富的生命活动，一起大声吟唱着自然的旋律。
In this sense, how do trees perceive when their surroundings are divided into morning and evening according to the anthropocentric mindset? And how do trees define their survival in the face of human arrogance? This project questions the lack of care for the trees around us, tries to explore and measure the dynamic proximity between humans and ‘nature’, discusses how humans can feel the presence of nature from the site and embodied perspective, and reshapes the relationship between human and ‘nature’ through mundane care as a practical approach under the development of global ecological issues.
那么，当周遭的生存环境以早晚作为分野，树的感受是如何变化的呢？树又是如何描述其在人类忽视下的生存境况呢？该项目质疑人们对于周遭树木缺乏注意力所致使的关怀缺失，试图探索和测量人与自然的共情相处中的动态亲密距离，讨论人们如何在当今全球生态问题的发展之下，从地方的、切身的角度去感受自然的在场，以日常的情感关怀作为实践方式重塑人与自然的关系。
