Dream in Blood
Procreate, 2021
This is one frame from a time-based piece with a same title, which is a multimedia-based project that incorporates digital drawing, video projection, and audio. Under the abstract blood-like projection, the drawing depicts a cyborg who is lying in her blood with Opium Poppy flowers. The dialogue is inspired by the Voight-Kampff test in Blade Runner. The questions shift from daily routines to more absurd futuristic imagination.
In this piece, I've been thinking of the impact of industrialization on female bodies. I also wanted to address the idea of rat race, and the intense pressure and unreasonable requirements that the current human society has put on underage children. The dehumanization and alienation taking place in modern social norms forebode the very likely future in which humans will become cyborgs and their physical development could be timed and controlled in order to meet the demands of the entire human community.