Chong Shi

我喜欢与生活中的物品对话。他们安静，离我很近却富有潜力。我把它们都看作可以阅读，反馈和思考的内容。我们的话题很宽泛。有时关于我的记忆和个人经历，有时联系到我的文化身份，有时只是唐吉柯德式的幻想。我们会很安静地说一些躁动的事，开心地谈一些感动的事，亦会玩笑似的讨论一些严肃的事。从对话中，我更一步了解了自己，周围以及我在不同语境中的位置。至于对话的表现，我喜欢用一层层的理性去包裹自己最初始的感性与非理性。我深信功能物体的功能性并不只限于实用功能本身，我希望我的探索能将我带到一个艺术与设计接壤的地方。[1]

[1] I like to talk with the objects in my daily life, which are silent, close but full of potential. I see all of them as contents which I am able to read, response to and think about. Our topics are quite wide, sometimes about my fairly personal memory and experience, sometimes related to my cultural identity, and sometimes just filled with quixotic imagination. We silently talk about something restless, we happily talk about something melting, and we humorously talk about something serious. Through the dialogue, I have a further understanding of myself, my circle and my position in a cross-context. For the physical manifestation of our dialogues, I use layer by layer of rationality to wrap my original emotion and irrationality. I believe the functionality of functional objects should not only be the physical function itself. I hope my exploration can bring me to somewhere in between art and design.