Skywalker

By Wanli Wei

Video & Animation

This is an extension of an art activity I was engaged in nine years ago. In 2015, I took thousands of photos of bird droppings. After adjustment and refinement,I have selected a dozen of interesting pictures. What I want to do is try to merge my thoughts with these amusing bird dropping images by means of AI creation, based on which the images could be promptly analyzed, deconstructed, and then be reconstructed into a series of highly abstract ones.

If you would ask me where I am heading for? I would tell you, all living forms would be eventually shattered to pieces. Like food, sought, taken and digested by a bird, it’d be taken to sky and then dropped onto earth. Its original form faded, neither birth nor death, worries vanished. Leaving the body, neither defiled nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing, it’d be reborn in another brilliant form, as splendid as summer flowers. Wandering with mumbling questions, it keeps cycling, changing, reincarnating. All things are one, the world is one family. What is seen is no longer seen. Could you discern whence it originated and whither it would journey ahead?

这算是我九年前的一次艺术活动的延伸。2015年,我拍摄了上千张鸟屎的照片，从中挑选了十多张有意思的图片，经过调整提炼,选出了一些有意思的照片。这次尝试通过这些有趣的鸟屎图片,通过AI创作,将自己的想法与这些鸟屎图片融合其中,迅速地分析、解构，然后重构出一系列极具抽象感的画面。

你问我要去向何方?我告诉你，最终，粉身碎骨是我的模样。从万物之中寻找食物,穿肠而过。飞越天地之间,不生不灭，亦烦恼不见。离开身体，既不垢不净，也不增不减。以另一个灿烂，生如夏花般的形态再生。在喃喃自语之中是带着问题的行走，循环，变化，轮回。万物唯一，天地一家，所见已经不见，可知从哪里来，又要去向何方?