剪纸宇宙 Universe of Paper Cuttings

Installation, 2022

“今年是我和纸这个媒介合作的第十年。我剪过很多纸和很多具象的形象，他们是二维的生物，也活在我创造的宇宙里。”

"This year marks my 10th year of collaborating with paper as a medium. I've cut out a lot of paper and a lot of specific figures. They’re some two-dimensional creatures that live in the universe I've created."

陈粉丸尝试将自己在「与纸合作」的十年间、剪过的大量图形放在一棵大树上，并希望它们像传说中的生命树一样生生不息。所有串联的图形均由顶部天花的编程电机牵引，缓缓转动。这件作品最终命名为《剪纸宇宙》。

Chen Fenwan tries to put a large number of figures she has cut during her decade of "collaborating with paper" on a big tree, and hopes that they will continue to grow like the legendary tree of life. All the figures in series are drawn by a programmed motor on the top ceiling, slowly turning. The artwork was eventually named the Universe of Paper Cuttings.

数百计的剪纸图形共同以树的方式联结、生长。施以无限的镜面空间和跳跃彩色，在观众看来就像宇宙一样无垠。 “真正的宇宙不是这些正形，而是被剪去的负形。” 剪纸镂空的正负形是一个意味深远的话题，它往往象征着舍弃与保留，艺术家通过舍弃来获得形状。沿着一张方形的、本不通透的纸张剪去的碎片，最终以相反的方向所去无踪。

Hundreds of paper-cut graphics connect and grow together in the way of tree. With the mirrored space and jumping color, it seems as infinite as the universe to the audience. " The real universe is not these conformal forms, but the negative forms cut out." The positive and negative shape of paper-cut hollowing is a topic of profound significance, which often symbolizes choices. The pieces cut along a square, opaque piece of paper eventually disappear in the opposite direction.

这些图形的创作遵循着“手起刀落”的规律：通过将一张纸对折一次或多次，获得相互对称的图形。与在平板电脑上进行的「绘画剪纸」不同，在纸张上一旦剪下，线条便成定局、无法挽回。粉丸曾通过大量的手工剪纸劳动，获得这些在心中预设过的镂空，她形容这样的创作者身份是一个规划者和“预言家”。

The creation of these figures follows the law of "the hand rises and the knife falls" : by folding a piece of paper in half once or more, symmetrical shapes are obtained. Unlike the "paper-cut painting" done on a tablet pad, once the paper is cut, the lines are fixed and irretrievable. Fenwan obtained these preconceived hollowed-out images through a lot of manual paper-cutting. She describes such a creator as a planner and a "prophet".

在成为可被量产的大型作品之前，大量的剪纸原稿通过数码扫描被团队处理成为矢量化的图形文件，再在经由手工上色的各类彩色纸张上雕刻成型。手工劳动和科技的混合在粉丸的这件作品中密不可分，也像《剪纸宇宙》看来那样，历经繁复的团队合作。

Before being mass-produced, her studio team processed a large number of cut-outs through digital scans into vectorized graphic files, which were then carved and shaped on a variety of hand-colored paper. The mix of manual labor and technology are inseparable in the artist's works, which, as seen in Universe of Paper Cuttings, is also a complex team effort.

纸张在刻意的铺排之下，从轻薄的材质生长成具有错位秩序的大型空间装置， 带来以小至大的生猛力量。

Under the deliberate layout, paper grows from thin material to large space installation with dislocation order, bringing with vigorous power.