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Bonsai - Vividly Dead

Introduction

Bonsai (tray planting）is a Japanese art form using trees grown in containers. Similar practices exist in other cultures, including the Chinese tradition of Penjing from which the art originated, and the miniature living landscapes of Vietnamese. The Japanese tradition dates back over a thousand years.

What

This project is combined with still and moving images, to create a world of Human Bonsai.

It is the only Bonsai image I made without thinking but somehow made me think more. It can be a reference of this project to you who are reading it.

How

Combination of 3d, 2d, photography and video. I will make human I shoot become a Bonsai by deform (post production) and paint them.

Why

Bonsai is from China, me as a Chinese, it comes into my life more or less. Just like the title, Vividly Dead, Bonsai is made by alive plant, but deformed by people. The way it grows, the shape it looks, even the meaning of its life are planned by people. It is a reflection of nature which is artificial, beautiful, imaginary, pretended. Then I think of myself or most of people, we are also a Bonsai planned by the world's rules, the way we grow, the clothes we wear, the face we make make us become "beautiful" and "meaningful" people.
Therefore, I want to make people which made by world become into Bonsai which is a world we make.