-025 Quan Wenfei

If there is one thing that you can change in a previous project of yours, what would it be?

I have a work about the shape of language which I’ve never been fully satisfied with. Specifically, it’s a comic book where I blacked out all the scenes, figures, and words, leaving only the empty speech bubbles. Titling the piece “The Shape of Language,” I want to generate a sense of lightness despite its heavy connotation. I originally made it with markers, and I am not fully happy with the result.

If I were to remake it, I would want to carve it into a stone monument. The dense arrangement of these hollow, discontinuous bubbles might perhaps generate a kind of mute, speechless feeling, reminiscent of a stone, incapable of utterance.


[Original response in Mandarin Chinese]

我有一个有关语言的形状的创作。一直不是很满意 我想要一种举重若轻的感觉。具体是一本漫画书把场景和人物还有字全都涂掉 只留下了了空洞的对话框。我把这个叫语言的形状。我之前尝试在用马克 笔在漫画上涂抹 但是还是不是很满意。如果我重新制作 我想把它刻在石碑上 这种空洞的无持续感的气泡密集排列 没准儿会有一种像石头无言的感觉。