8. Stone Records
STORY：' PIG SQUEALING STONE '
There's a strange stone known as the 'pig squealing stone.' It looks like a piece of meat. People say this stone makes weird sounds when important things happen. When people touch it, they feel a slight squealing, like something is moving inside.This stone first made these strange sounds in 1937 during a really bad disease. People who believe in 'heaven and man induction' think that things happening on human make nature react similarly.
Author LiuYichun
Human beings are beginning to tend to include elements of nature in the architecture of urban buildings.
However, in reality, the involvement of nature is diminishing as people live in cities with concrete structures.
The coexistence of man and nature has become the relationship between Man-made production and human development as a way to achieve the efficacy of material life cycle extension.
This phenomenon resembles a logical contradiction between truth and falsehood, reflecting the ambivalence of modern individuals' psychology toward natural values. People often take pleasure in pursuing the value of things with life cycles similar to our own; we mourn the wilting of flowers and feel the cruelty when seeing blood.
But what about the value of things that span longer than human life? One cannot witness the change of a stone or the demise of the oceans. However, as I mentioned in my story, nature consistently responds to changes on human. Yet, people are accustomed to overlooking these 'static' injuries.
"Even when the pig is no longer alive, people will still extract every bit of value from it."
In this work, I've attempted to speed up the time that allows the viewer to witness Stone's eventual demise. At the same time, when the value of a stone is discovered, will it also be like an animal, which, after its value has been extracted by butchers, is placed on the dining table?
As we gaze into the mirror, viewing from the stone's perspective, human behavior appears stagnant,human existence verging on nonexistence. Following the laws of nature, the imbalance of all things will eventually dissolve in the river of time, much like water merging with water