究竟是一束光,还是一道阴影
A Circle with One Ray, or a Cone with One Shadow
2024
35cm × 40cm × 180cm
35cm × 50cm × 180cm
40cm × 50cm × 180cm
Blue print, plaster, glass and steel


This project begins with an ancient sun symbol on a papyrus from Greek horoscopes: a circle with a pointed edge. I am left to wonder under what circumstances its creator envisioned this image—if they often looked up at the sky, perhaps it was an imitation of the sun itself, with the pointed edge capturing a beam of light. But if their eyes lingered more on the ground, they might have realized, as a sharp-topped, round object stood still beneath the sunlight, the point could just as well be a shadow.

This seems to be a subtle revelation: one is the sun, the other its projection, yet at certain angles, they form the same image. Could this mean they are not inherently contradictory? Alas, I cannot find a definite answer, but I know that human imagination mirrors the vast mysteries of the cosmos. Whether through boundless thought or the layered wisdom of experience, we explore the world in myriad ways. When I observe, am I also like one of our ancestors, standing on the ground, waiting for inspiration from celestial bodies, seeking a connection between myself and the universe in the chaos of light and shadow?
这个项目由一个出现在古希腊莎草纸上的古代太阳符号作为开端:一个带有尖角的圆圈。

在我第一次看到它时,我惊讶地发现它与我当时做的蓝晒形成了重合。我无法想象它的作者是在何种情况下得出了这个图像:如若他们常常仰望天空,这或许是对太阳本身的模拟,圆圈附带的尖角代表着一束光线;但如果他们惯于观察大地,当某一个底部为圆、顶部尖锐的物体安静地竖立于直射的太阳光下,他们可能会意识到,那个尖角,或许也是一道阴影。

这似乎是一种冥冥中的启示,一个是太阳本身,一个是太阳的投射,却在某种角度中形成了同一个图像。那是否意味着它们本身就并不相悖呢?人在想象天体是如何运行的同时创造了数之不尽的故事,而在观测天体的同时又得到了宇宙运行的规律。

于此,我无法得到确切的答案,但我知道人类的遐想一直以来都跟天空的秘密一样丰富:思维的无限延伸,或是经验的重复堆叠,都是我们用来探索世界的方式。我们会在石壁上凿刻下对太阳的崇拜,也深谙日光与石头摆放的艺术来计算下个夏至的来临;路易十四将自身比作永恒的太阳,却也有人将这样的永恒总结成另一种世人可知的规律。而我便是忠实的记录者,它们被我灌注成金色的雕像,被我雕刻进透明的锥体,在石头的前侧,也在石头的后侧。它们存在于同一个空间中,一束光就是一道阴影,想象的反面就是观测。