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Sailor
水手


Photography / Publication
2021































In Sailor, I explore queer identity within China’s globalized cultural landscape. The project initiates a dialogue between reimagined imagery and the evolving realities of contemporary Chinese society, investigating how queer communities navigate the crosscurrents of global influence and local expectations.

Working with image appropriation, tonal manipulation, visual collage, and media repurposing, I reflect how queer identities are composed—fragmented, borrowed, blurred—within a complex socio-cultural terrain.

Each sub-project approaches a different facet of queer existence:

  • Eden uses gradient tones and liminal landscapes—where urban and natural elements dissolve into one another—to suggest queer life suspended between visibility and erasure. Its dreamlike mood evokes the surreal labor of navigating hostile environments.

  • The Orchid Man combines self-portraits with anime and cyberpunk motifs, examining how masculinity is shaped by both traditional norms and global pop iconography. Fragmentation becomes a method of resistance and reassembly.

  • WishList appropriates the lo-fi aesthetics of gay media, commenting on how queer desire is simultaneously commodified and marginalized in consumer culture.

Through these visual languages, Sailor maps how queer bodies move through urban space, cultural tension, and emotional thresholds—revealing identity not as a fixed entity, but as a continual negotiation shaped by context, media, and desire.


在《水手》中，我探索中国全球化语境下的酷儿身份。项目以重构影像为起点，与当代中国社会之间展开对话，考察酷儿社群如何在全球影响与本土规范之间穿行、协商与再造。

我运用图像挪用、色调操作、拼贴结构与媒介再构等手法，反映酷儿身份在复杂文化环境中的形成过程——它是碎片化的、借来的、模糊而流动的。

项目中的三个子系列呈现酷儿经验的不同切面：

  • 《伊甸园》 以渐变色调和城市与自然之间的模糊边界，表现酷儿个体悬置于“可见与不可见”之间的边缘状态。作品的梦幻质感，传达了在不友好环境中寻找自我位置的超现实体验。

  • 《兰花人》 将自画像与动漫、赛博朋克视觉元素结合，探讨男性气质如何在传统规范与全球流行文化中被建构与重组。碎片化在此不仅是形式策略，也是抵抗与重塑的路径。

  • 《愿望清单》 借用同志媒体的低保真美学，反映欲望在消费文化中如何被商品化又边缘化，留下残响而非解放。

通过这些图像方法，《水手》勾勒出酷儿身体如何穿越城市空间、文化期望与情感界限——身份不是固态结构，而是在语境、媒介与欲望之间不断协商的过程。