Reconfigured images become strata of human activity—what I call a “digital ore” of the contemporary city.
Over-Scaled: Urban Sediment Layers
超像素：城市沉积层
本项⽬由*富⼠FUJIFILM*委任创作，延续我“超像素”系列的创作脉络。摄影的灵感源⾃我⾃幼成⻓的城市——上海。正如我们所处的这个时代，上海也经历着⻜速的变迁：在⾼速发展的都市进程中，历史被⼀层层压积在城市的地基之下，⽽不断⾼密度的更新与替换，则令这座城市迅速与全球化语境接轨。
我持续观察着这座城市地貌与空间所经历的变动，试图以“视觉”作为⼀种另类的“地质学”切⼝，从图像出发，对城市更迭所遗留下的边缘地带进⾏摄影解构与视觉重组。对我⽽⾔，摄影从来不仅是记录，它更是⼀种具有时间压缩性的视觉操作：通过图像的切⽚、堆叠与重构，我得以介⼊并剖析那些在⽇常中被忽视的⻆落与城市肌理的微妙痕迹。
延续⼀直以来在“超像素”这⼀图像系统上的创作脉络，我通过对图像细节的算法式放⼤，从中提取出接近沉积地层肌理的抽象⾊彩结构。这些被重新构建的图像⽚段，仿佛是都市岩层的剖⾯，⽽它们的构成元素则来⾃建筑表⾯的⽼化、锈蚀的管道、混凝⼟的裂缝，以及施⼯现场所遗留的痕迹——它们共同组成了⼀个由⼈类活动压印⽽成的都市“数字矿层”。
在材质的层⾯上，我尝试将图像从⼆维的平⾯延伸⾄三维的实体。以视觉信息为基础，借助算法⽣成了⼀系列近似岩⽯剖⾯的三维模型，并将其转化为雕塑模型。这些雕塑模拟岩⽯的结构，却不掩其⼈造的痕迹——它们的“仿⾃然”肌理昭示着当代⼈造物与⾃然演化之间那种⽭盾⽽复杂的共⽣关系。
我希望观众在和这些作品进⾏互动时，能够以⼀种客观的视⻆审视我们⽣存在内的城市系统，通过观察这⼀层层由社会建构、技术演进与历史残余所压积⽽成的近代“地质界⾯”与“矿⽯残⽚”，去理解⼟地、城市、社会与⼈类当下处在何种异化的机械结构之中。
Over-Scaled: Urban Sediment Layers is a commissioned project by , continuing the trajectory of my "Over-Scaled" series. Rooted in my personal experience of growing up in Shanghai, the work reflects on the city’s rapid transformation—where layers of historical memory are constantly compressed beneath new urban structures as the metropolis aligns itself with globalized aesthetics.
I observe and document marginal spaces left behind by urban renewal, using photography as a tool of visual geology. For me, photography compresses time—through slicing, layering, and restructuring, it reveals traces often overlooked in the urban landscape.
Through algorithmic magnification, I extract abstract structures from visual fragments—peeling textures from decaying façades, rusted pipes, cracked concrete, and construction sites. These reconfigured images become strata of human activity—what I call a “digital ore” of the contemporary city.
The work expands into three-dimensional forms: sculptures generated from visual data, mimicking geological surfaces while bearing synthetic imprints. These hybrid forms echo the tension between human fabrication and natural formation in the Anthropocene.
I invite viewers to examine the layered interfaces of our built environment—where technology, history, and memory sediment into the geologic surface of modern life.
2025
*Honored to participate in “How Carbon is Forgotten” at Shang Art Museum, curated by Zhang Xiaorui and organized by Irreplaceable Space, in collaboration with Onehouse Arts (LA) and WHOSMUSEUM. The exhibition explores the silent erasure of carbon traces through modernization—linking traditional ecological knowledge and contemporary artistic critique. By contrasting industrial materials with new carbon-capture technologies, it questions the historical debts and politics of memory behind “carbon neutrality.”