sim hoi ling

我使用人與廁紙的互動來类比人格與個性塑造過程中無數的被摧毀與重塑這件事。廁紙處在廁所裡，身為一個在公眾場所的物品，遇上形形色色的人，同時也與他們毫無遮掩地近距離接觸。它就這樣地承受／感受每一個人於它身上施加的力度，承載著他們不想帶著的廢物，一遍一遍地，直到抵達自身的盡頭為止。

廁紙在這系列作品裡被擬為人格中較為脆弱而容易被塑及重塑的那部分。與人接觸的廁紙即將被撕裂而分為兩個部分，一個承載污染痕跡，另一個留在架子上，帶著撕裂的印跡。這些外力持續地塑造這個“個體”的”人格心理“，受環境影響和塑造之下的這個”個體“將進而影響另一個”個體“，而完成連鎖的暴力力量轉移而最終回歸，循環。而我將這一些部份轉為視覺與藝術語言移植在這系列創作當中。

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Photographing image of ripped toilet paper and collecting used toilet paper from various public toilets; reprocess and remake them into a 5-part installation accompanied with water drips and video projection. This is a series of five works that connects from one to another and as a whole, they complete a cycle. 

The artist uses toilet paper as a metaphor to the part of human psyche that is easily shaped and influenced by outer force. The work uses the human interaction with toilet paper as analogy to talk about the process of forming and reforming the ego and persona, by undergoing a certain amount of tearing, pain and trauma, referencing Carl Jung’s definition of psyche, persona, ego archetype, ego complex, personal unconscious as key point in the series of work. The work also deals with the concept of universe is round, where : “The force which is used to affect, rip and form the persona will circulate back to the origin itself”.