Secret Rendezvous 密会
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2021
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2020 wedged us into liminal spaces. During this period of flux, I delved into questions of identity. Having grown up in multicultural environments, such in-betweenness wasn't foreign to me. During lockdown, my psyche nearly shattered. Only when I realized my fear of intimacy stemmed from anxiety about losing my autonomous self did I understand that my true adversary was my subconscious.
This birthed 'Jonathan' - a digital fragment, a symbolic and political entity through which I could reexamine existence. I built a website in his name, my tower of beautiful chaos. It houses a letter, case studies, and visual works ignited by Kobo Abe's novels.
Confined by the pandemic, I discovered that art, like photography, is fundamentally about conquering fear. 'Jonathan' exists as a collective assemblage, like a blade of grass swaying in an energy field, establishing its own form. He embodies not just myself, but my distant Taiwanese lover, the Berlin activists posting their manifestos, those sharing black squares on Instagram, and everyone viewing this site from their isolation.
In times where future possibilities seem compressed, we can still forge new paths from these interstices. We can construct unique subjectivities within non-unified unity, finding voice and potential in the liminal spaces of both physical and digital realms.
2020年将我们挤入夹缝。在这动荡的过渡期，我潜入身份的深渊。在多元文化中成长的我，对这种界限模糊并不陌生。疫情封锁期间，我的精神几近崩溃。直到我明白，害怕亲密源于失去独立自我的恐惧，我才意识到真正的对手是潜意识中的自己。
由此诞生了'乔纳森'——一个数字碎片，一个符号化的政治体，通过他我得以重新审视生命。我以他的名义建立网站，这座美丽混沌之塔。其中收录了一封信、数个案例研究，以及受安部公房小说启发的视觉作品。
疫情禁锢中，我发现艺术创作，如摄影，本质上是在克服恐惧。'乔纳森'作为集体拼贴而存在，如同能量场中摇曳的草叶，形成自己的形态。他不仅代表我，还代表着疏离的台湾恋人、在柏林张贴宣言的行动者、在社交媒体上分享黑色方块的网民，以及所有在独处中浏览这个网站的人。
在未来选择似乎被压缩的时代，我们仍能从夹缝中开辟新径。我们能在非统一的统一中构建独特的主体性，在物理和数字世界的边缘地带寻找表达与可能。
This birthed 'Jonathan' - a digital fragment, a symbolic and political entity through which I could reexamine existence. I built a website in his name, my tower of beautiful chaos. It houses a letter, case studies, and visual works ignited by Kobo Abe's novels.
Confined by the pandemic, I discovered that art, like photography, is fundamentally about conquering fear. 'Jonathan' exists as a collective assemblage, like a blade of grass swaying in an energy field, establishing its own form. He embodies not just myself, but my distant Taiwanese lover, the Berlin activists posting their manifestos, those sharing black squares on Instagram, and everyone viewing this site from their isolation.
In times where future possibilities seem compressed, we can still forge new paths from these interstices. We can construct unique subjectivities within non-unified unity, finding voice and potential in the liminal spaces of both physical and digital realms.
2020年将我们挤入夹缝。在这动荡的过渡期，我潜入身份的深渊。在多元文化中成长的我，对这种界限模糊并不陌生。疫情封锁期间，我的精神几近崩溃。直到我明白，害怕亲密源于失去独立自我的恐惧，我才意识到真正的对手是潜意识中的自己。
由此诞生了'乔纳森'——一个数字碎片，一个符号化的政治体，通过他我得以重新审视生命。我以他的名义建立网站，这座美丽混沌之塔。其中收录了一封信、数个案例研究，以及受安部公房小说启发的视觉作品。
疫情禁锢中，我发现艺术创作，如摄影，本质上是在克服恐惧。'乔纳森'作为集体拼贴而存在，如同能量场中摇曳的草叶，形成自己的形态。他不仅代表我，还代表着疏离的台湾恋人、在柏林张贴宣言的行动者、在社交媒体上分享黑色方块的网民，以及所有在独处中浏览这个网站的人。
在未来选择似乎被压缩的时代，我们仍能从夹缝中开辟新径。我们能在非统一的统一中构建独特的主体性，在物理和数字世界的边缘地带寻找表达与可能。
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