ritty liu

(installation—treasures collection from Baltic Sea)
忒修斯杀死牛头怪后返航时的木船，作为胜利的象征，在雅典停靠多年。时光荏苒，木船的零件因年久失修而被逐渐更换。直到最后，当船上的所有零件都被替换完后，你面前的这艘船还是原来的那艘吗？

想象我们生活的自然与故事中的船是同一个主体。我们自然的组成部分是什么？它们是空气、土地、水、树木和风吗？

我试图把在波罗的海沿岸收集到的物品与大自然中的组成部分进行比较。观察它们的变化是一个非常有趣的实验。多年后，它们还会与收集时完全一样吗？我决定在收集它们后尽快在暗室的相纸上进行曝光和显影，以保留它们的特征。也许几年或几十年后，它们可能会变得完全不同。

我们的人类如何改变？

The wooden boat as a symbol of victory that Theseus returned to sail after killing the monster Minotaurs, docked in Athens for many years. Time flies, the components of the wooden boats were gradually replaced due to years of disrepair. In the end, when all the components of the ship have been replaced, is this ship in front of you still the original one? 

Imagine our Nature which we live in is the same subject as the wooden boat in this story. What would be the components of our  Nature? Are they air, land, water, trees, and wind? 

I tried to collected the treasures on the Baltic coast and compare them to the components in our nature. It‘s a very interesting experiment to observe their changing. Will they still exactly stay the same as they were collected after many years later? I decided to preserve their features by exposure and developing them on photo paper in a darkroom as soon as possible after they were collected. Perhaps after years or decades, they may become completely different.

How about our human beings?