Contemporary Visual Artist
ONLINE COURSE SYNDROME
This project is about some of my reflections on my 2-year online course experience during college. With the global epidemic affecting the world, Many schools have been forced to change to an online teaching format in various countries. Unfortunately, I almost finished my undergraduate studies through online courses, which brought me more negative feelings. I felt that I was physically and mentally destroyed to a certain extent by the long hours of sitting at home in front of my computer every day. Talking to a computer makes me feel like a robot. I used collage to create a secondary portrait in an absurd and eccentric way to express the absence and exhaustion of the students during their online classes. I immersed the computer model in water and placed it on “fire” to show the unrestrained feeling of being unable to stop the online courses as if I were in deep water and a hot oven. I used cold light, lighting up my x-rays to give a brilliant blue colour and photographed them at a pure angle, to demonstrate the damage to my spine caused by long time sitting during the online courses. In addition, I also found a model head flipped through all my glasses and put them overlapping on the model to express the damage and aggravation to my eyesight under the situation of taking those courses.