AI generated Animation based on 55 drawings, 2023, 2:06 min, mute,loop
installation view in Shandong Art Museum Jinan International Biennale.
⽣成动画《⾦枝》，2:06分钟,以抽象的速写为基础，输入Runway AI 工具生成每一张之间的混合帧，呈现出一个动画片段，展现⽣物的痕迹和演化。而AI生成的动画作品本身也是依托于原有的速写原稿，形成了寄生关系。
Inspired in Golden Bough, the animation is an AI-generated transition between each frame, from one state to another in between, as if the soul is out of body and transforming.
Is it dangerous that the soul can temporarily leave the body? A wandering soul is prone to fall into the hands of the enemy and suffer all kinds of disasters and other dangers. There is no reason why the soul should not be allowed to leave the body for a short period of time if its safety can be ensured during the period of its absence from the body.
Unenlightened people do not understand life as a "constant possibility of perception"; they understand life as a concrete material object that has a specific volume, that can be seen and touched, that can be hidden in a box, and that at the same time can be easily injured, broken, or shattered. The life thus understood need not necessarily be inside the human body; it can also leave the body and continue to keep it alive by sensing or manipulating it from a distance. Primitive man took his soul out of his body and stored it in a warm, cozy and safe place to ensure peace, and then put it back into his body after the danger had passed. The advantage of this is that as long as the soul is there and remains undamaged, the person will live forever and never die, because the life has not been put inside the body, and no matter what happens to it, nothing can make it die.
The Chinese cultural practice of borrowing objects and the Chinese religious practice of setting up a transcendent being converge here - or personify the form that is ultimately used as an object to explain the powerlessness of human beings to explain the coming and going of cosmic phenomena.
