Mirror Park
sketch: This set of photographic works focuses on fitness equipment installations that exist as public facilities in rainy day parks. The creators capture their scenes when they are idle on rainy days, observing the relationship between humans and nature.
The creator deconstructs daily rainy scenes with high saturation color blocks in the picture, and captures the fitness fields in the park — the «steel plant jungle» that grows with urban construction and is visible in the park. The park fitness equipment made by the steel material industrial process is photographed, emphasizing the vitality of this era through direct photography. These color experiments are not only visual observations of everyday life, but also chromatographic archives of collective memory — each color block carries the oxidation reaction of body temperature and time. Under the arrangement of geometric visual composition, industrialized creations and artificial greenery are juxtaposed in the natural landscape, growing freely between mechanical rationality and physical temperature. In terms of time dimension, rainwater is a scouring medium with movement marks, washing away human use marks (such as fingerprints and sweat stains) on equipment. Here, fitness equipment serving the body achieves an «absent body», and some of the limitations of technical rationality before natural laws are reflected in the mirror like puddles. The blurred outline of the rain curtain blurred the outline of the equipment, and collective memory flowed away in urban renewal. At this moment of frozen image, the unused equipment in the rain is also a monument to the changes of the times.
