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Sailor
水手


Photography / Publication
2021
































Sailor explores how queer identity in China drifts through the interstices of global aesthetics and local constraints. Set against the backdrop of megacities like Shanghai, the project initiates a visual dialogue between remixed imagery and shifting cultural logics—tracing how queer bodies navigate tensions between visibility, erasure, and the soft coercions of representation.

Through image appropriation, color modulation, lo-fi mimicry, and media remix, the project reflects how queer subjectivity is not singular or stable, but assembled—fragmented, borrowed, blurred—within shifting currents of social legibility and desire.

Each sub-series probes a distinct facet of queer inhabitation:

Eden overlays gradient tones onto ambiguous zones—where natural and urban textures bleed into each other—suggesting queer life as a liminal vibration, caught between softness and erasure, between presence and camouflage.

The Orchid Man entangles self-portraiture with anime, cyberpunk, and ornamental masculinity, dissecting how East Asian bodies are coded and re-coded through both global pop vocabularies and local patriarchal scripts. Fragmentation becomes both refusal and repair.

WishList reappropriates the lo-fi tactility of early gay digital culture, exposing how queer desire is rendered both consumable and unspeakable within platform economies.

Together, these works sketch a moving map of queer embodiment across affective thresholds, infrastructural limitations, and unstable visual grammars. Identity emerges not as essence, but as ongoing negotiation—processed through glitch, ambient residue, and small refusals.

《水手》探索中国酷儿身份如何在全球审美与本土规训之间游移。项目以上海等大都市为背景，在图像混剪与文化节奏错拍之间展开对话，追踪酷儿身体如何穿行于可见与被抹除、表演与默许之间的张力缝隙。

通过图像挪用、色调扰动、低保真模拟与媒介拼贴，本项目呈现出一种非稳定的酷儿主体现形方式：它是拼接的、借用的、模糊的，在不断变动的社会可读性与欲望语境中不断重组自身。

三个子系列各自切入酷儿生存的不同切面：

《伊甸园》 将渐变色调覆盖在城市与自然边界模糊的地带——那些被光污染、植物覆盖、空间功能混淆的地貌，暗示着酷儿生命悬置在“被看见”与“被消失”之间的震荡带。它营造出一种梦境般的暧昧氛围，捕捉在敌意环境中试图定位自身的超现实劳动感。

《兰花人》 结合自画像、动漫与赛博朋克的男性气质意象，剖析东亚身体如何被全球流行文化与本地父权逻辑不断编码、再编码。碎片化不只是表现手法，更是一种抵抗与修复机制。

《愿望清单》 重新挪用早期同志数字文化的低保真质感，揭示在平台资本主义语境中，酷儿欲望如何被商品化的同时又被边缘化。

整个项目构成一幅酷儿身体穿越感官阈值、基础设施断裂与不稳定视觉语法的动态地图。身份在此不再是本质，而是一种持续协商的状态——经由失调、残响与微小抗拒而生成。