ZHANGYUTING 


When you whisper in my dream


2022-2023; Installation; Mixed Media: Grass, soil, airbag, air pumps, pillow, pipes, screen, sounds from four locations


The sounds of the wind, birds, leaves, are like nature's talking, a way for it to communicate with us and transmit natural signals. Through these sounds I hope to evoke memories of the raw life force from nature and to make people experience it and realise our common presence and influence.

In a time of prevalent anthropocentrism, we often lose sight of our intrinsic connection to nature. By breathing the ebb and flow of the pillow, I reveal the intimate connection between us. This time, we can reconsider our relationship with nature and find a healing method from it
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Process

The sounds of the wind, birds, leaves, are like nature's talking, a way for it to communicate with us and transmit natural signals. Through these sounds I hope to evoke memories of the raw life force from nature and to make people experience it and realise our common presence and influence.

In a time of prevalent anthropocentrism, we often lose sight of our intrinsic connection to nature. By the breathing flow of the lawn, I reveal the intimate connection between natural and us. Finally, we can reconsider our relationship with nature and find a healing method from it.
    
2023/11/30, I went back to the lawn


Sound Visualization



In TouchDesigner, I made digital images of different sounds recorded in four directions. By controlling the changes of the screen in real time with the recorded sound data, the sound on the lawn seems to gently show me the story of its day.

I let each of these sounds do its own thing, the wind passing by in clusters, bringing about changes of colour in the picture; the rattling of the grass and leaves shaking like soft leather straps; the birds and insects loud and undulating, scurrying out of the picture from time to time; the sound of traffic as an occasional elastic line passing by, which cbutton 6 1an be stretched out and drifted away.

Finally, these sounds overlapped, intertwined, and faded together into a complete picture, as if the lawn whispering softly in my dreams.