A Slow Journey
缓慢的征程
2022
As a highly developed coastal subtropical immigrant city, Shenzhen gathers things from different regions. There are not only a large number of alien populations, but also many alien species. Even more than 100 million square meters of land are artificially filled with silt and rocks from oceans, hills and other regions.
The giant African snail is the most common alien invasive animal in Shenzhen after the rain. This snail native to eastern Africa is huge and slow-moving. However, after decades of breeding and spreading, it has become a dominant species in many areas, including Shenzhen. .They will not only disrupt the local ecological balance, but also bring the risk of spreading viruses and parasites.
By creating land on the ocean, human footprints continue to expand to the sea, and the giant African snail also expands new habitats. In the process of intervening and transforming nature, Humanity's will to win runs through unchangeable history and an uncontrollable future.
The project is supported by art book in china
作为发达的亚热带沿海移民城市，深圳汇集着来自不同地区的事物。这里不仅有大量的外来人口，也有种类繁多的外来物种。甚至有一亿多平方米的陆地都由来自不同地带的泥沙、岩石人工填造而成。而非洲大蜗牛是深圳最常见的外来入侵物种，它们在上个世纪被引入中国后，不断的繁殖与扩散，对当地生态系统产生了难以估量的损害。
通过填海造陆，人的足迹不断向大海扩张，非洲大蜗牛也随之拓展着新的栖息地。在干预、改造自然的进程中，人类意志贯穿着无法改变的历史以及不可控的未来。
该项目由art book in china资助
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Echo
回音
giant African snail shells, megaphones, concrete, etc.
非洲大蜗牛壳，电路板，扩音器，混凝土等
I picked up this huge weathered and whitened African snail shell in a forest in Qianhai, Shenzhen. The snail shell is a natural loudspeaker. I made it as a sound installation, and several rain sounds recorded in several small cities in East Africa will be played in it. For the giant African snail that died in Shenzhen, its body rotting and leaving its shells empty, the sound of raindrops falling on the land of East Africa may be like a requiem from its homeland, comforting the wandering soul.
我在深圳前海一处树林里拣到了这只巨大的早已风化发白的非洲大蜗牛壳。蜗牛壳是天然的扩音器，我将其制作为声音装置，录制于东部非洲数个小城的几段雨声会在其中播放出来。对于死在中国深圳的，肉体腐烂空留贝壳的非洲大蜗牛而言，雨滴落在东非大地的声音或许像是来自故土的安魂曲，让漂泊的魂灵得到抚慰。
photo by Hu jiaxu
photo by Notsoberenought
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Boat without a hometown
野渡无人舟自横
lime made from the shell of giant African snail, sand, steel plate, wire rope, etc.
非洲大蜗牛壳烧制的石灰，泥沙，钢板，钢丝绳等
I picked up a lot of giant African snail shells in Shenzhen, and at the same time collected the soil and sand from an artificial land.I calcined giant African snail shells into lime, and I mixed the above materials together to make a small concrete boat. Giant African snail, The seabed sediment, rocks in the mountains and other materials used to fill the sea and build land once did not belong to the new land of this new city. At this moment, they are gathered together in the form of a ship, continuing to be reshaped by the history that did not belong to them, drifting on the land that lost its destination.
我在深圳收集了一些用于填海造陆的泥土和砂石，并将捡拾来的非洲大蜗牛壳煅烧成石灰。以上这些材料被我混合在一起，制作成一艘袖珍的混凝土小船。曾经不属于这块新陆地的非洲大蜗牛，以及用于填海造陆的海底泥沙、山中岩石等物质此刻以船的形式融合在一起，继续被原不属于它们的历史重塑，在失去目的地的陆地漂泊。
photo by 吕佳音
