琥珀纪 Ambered: The Techno Past We Left Behind No.1
2024
Epoxy resin, pigment, waste discs,
disassembled parts of scrapped smart watches
15x7 cm
Just as minerals circulate and regenerate through tectonic movements, industrial technologies undergo violent "media metabolism" in the Anthropocene - extracted, processed, consumed, and ultimately deposited as e-waste in Guiyu's dismantling workshops or beside Pacific coral reefs, becoming new fossils in the digital stratum.
These discarded smartwatch chips and obsolete discs are in fact products where geological time collides with media time: silicon circuits descend from ancient volcanic glass evolution, while plastics reincarnate as algal remnants from petrification epochs. During field research in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei, the artist collected not merely technological relics, but nascent media sedimentary rock. When these obsolete media are encapsulated in resin, they simultaneously freeze moments of technological history like amber, while mirroring dead coral - preserving histories of ocean acidification within calcified carapaces.
正如矿物通过地质运动在板块间循环再生，工业技术物也在人类世中经历着剧烈的“媒介代谢”：它们被开采、加工、消费，最终以电子废料的形式沉积在贵屿的拆解作坊或太平洋深处的珊瑚礁旁，成为数字地层的新化石。
这些被淘汰的智能手表芯片和过时光碟，实则是地质时间与媒介时间碰撞的产物。在深圳华强北和潮汕贵屿镇的田野调研中，艺术家收集的不仅是过时技术残骸，更是一种正在形成的媒介沉积岩。当这些淘汰的电子媒介被树脂封存，它们既像琥珀般凝固了技术史的一瞬，也如同逝去的珊瑚——在钙化外壳里封存着海洋酸化的历史。