Jinjin Li
In my artistic journey, I explore both the world and myself, aiming to create a distinctive visual language. My work emphasizes a deep respect for nature and a commitment to sustainable development. This dedication informs my artistic practice and personal mission, advocating for environmental awareness and promoting harmony between humans and nature.
Over the past 150 years, as a result of human activity, the concentration of carbon
dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has doubled from its current level of 390 ppm to 800 ppm, however, the stomata used by leaves to breathe, which are the organs used by plants to breathe, have decreased by 34 per cent, and they are slowly failing. The leaf itself is unable to speak, much less signal a cry for help to the outside world. But the sounds it makes as it interacts with its environment may be recorded or translated into its own unique language, thus allowing us to listen to its cries for help and crying.
Therefore, we take thinking about the language of leaves as a starting point and try to
construct a space for us to communicate with them. In the street, in the forest, in the
park, in the crowd, through the way we are looking at and touching the leaves, we thus perceive the veins of the leaves and their inner flow of life, as well as the existential symbolism of life. We scanned and extracted the veins of the leaves, imported the texture of the veins into the touch designer to trace the shape of the veins with lines, simulated the breathing and undulation of the stomata, and mixed it with sound to create an experimental film to present the breathing and crying of the leaves. In order to better express the leaves' cry for help and return the expression problem to the leaf itself, I used leaf weaving to make a screen, and projected a 3D video showing leaf veins.
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