I am fine,
and you?
Self fortune telling
Yeshan Yang
This is the work from May this year. Because of the epidemic, I stayed in the small space of the student apartment all day to receive various epidemic news from the Internet every day, and my roommates also prevented me from going out. They thought that I might be infected with the virus and then infect them. This feeling of imprisonment made me Almost collapsed. At this time, I developed a strong thirst for knowledge of fate. My subconscious mind often drives me to think about what will happen next, and I am eager to predict the future in some way.
Occasionally, I discovered that because I didn't want my hair to block the drain, I would subconsciously stick the hair that fell on my hand to the bathroom wall. At first I found that my behavior was a bit like the performance art work (The Time Clock Piece) of a Taiwanese artist (Tehching Hsieh). But then I discovered the randomness of the hair, because the shape of the hair is different every day, so I began to imagine the relationship between the hair and me. Through observation, I found that the shapes of these hairs are very similar to Chinese characters. I wanted to find a way to understand what Chinese characters these shapes represent. When I understand what characters they are, I might be able to have some kind of dialogue with myself. Later, I thought of an input method that is unique to China for texting, because most Chinese do not speak English. People only need to write these Chinese characters on the phone screen to send text messages. So I tried to draw the shape of these hairs on this mobile phone app to recognize which word it would be. But I don’t know what impact this word will have on me, so I will check on the Internet how to use fortune-telling to explain what this word describes when things appear in people’s real lives or dreams. effect. It's like a decryption game. During the whole process, I completed dialogue with myself through divination, software and the Internet. I was released from this series of processes and made me pay more attention to the spiritual effect of creation.
And what I think is particularly interesting is that I use my own physical objects to correlate ancient Chinese metaphysics through modern technology to predict future things. It makes me think that this is an interesting experiment combining ancient modernity and the future. Combination of technology and culture. This is also a combination of materials, technology and culture.
The word means stars, and the appearance of stars in Chinese fortune telling means that you will experience hardships and you can achieve your ideals through hard work.
The word means Kirin, a Chinese beast that appears only in mythology. In Chinese fortune-telling, when a Kirin appears in a dream, men will be famous, women will give birth to smart and healthy children.
This word means dwarf. The appearance of the dwarf in Chinese fortune-telling represents auspicious meaning. You may meet new male friends and they will help you when you encounter difficulties.
This word is the name of a ferocious fish. The occurrence of a fish that can hurt people in Chinese fortune-telling means that you need help from people around you.