The Photobook of Mu Mu Dao 木目島相簿

The Photobook of Mu Mu Dao, 2008
MDF, paper, glass and photograhps from Google search engine
64(W) x 115(L) x 53(H) cm

The mobility of information has advanced dramatically compared with ten years ago. In the age of the internet, people around the world share fragments of their personal lives. What interests me most within this vast circulation is the image search itself.

I searched Google for more than a hundred images, using keywords such as tree, sea, landscape, human, animal, village, building, town, road, car, airplane, and many others. I printed these images, mounted them onto 3R‑sized glass sheets, and carved directly onto their surfaces. All of them come from a world constructed by Google—an archive of places that are both familiar and entirely unreal.

To me, these images resemble fragments of an impossible landscape, glimpses of different angles of a place that does not exist, full of contradictions. I named this place Mu Mu Dao (木目島), which translates as Photographic Island

由踏單車至乘坐公車，人不能避免要走進緊貼社會發展的環境當中。變化尤甚的，是資訊的發達，令到許多事物變得觸手可及。如網上世界，身處世界不同角落的人，都可以透過互聯網分享自己的私事。其中令我感到有趣的，是網上的圖片搜尋器。

我於谷歌搜尋超過一百張相片，透過「關鍵詞」如樹、海、風景、人、動物、鄉村、建築、家具、城市、道路、汽車、飛機等進行收集。然後，將這些相片貼於3R的玻璃上並進行雕刻。這是一個谷歌所建構的地方。

於我，這些相片像從不同角度描述同一個不存在及矛盾的社會。我稱這地方為“Mu Mu Dao”。漢語，“木目島”。