Beech poles, wooden tables, wooden chairs, wooden decoration and metal strings
Dimension variable
Sometimes, humans use imagination as metaphor—seeing the round mouth of a water bottle as the moon, or the dust in a room as grains of sand. At times, we even yearn for images we've never truly perceived, like the elusive figure described in Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged.
What draws modern people away from a natural life, while secretly embedding a longing for nature deep within their thoughts? Architecture becomes mountain; columns become trees. Upright, standing—not just civilized beings, but spirited figures reaching back to antiquity. In evolutionary theory, the upright human marks the beginning of intelligence and the history of civilization. Millions of years later, capitalist society becomes the everyday, its flow and accumulation solidifying into norms.
Columns are trees, planted into the ground. The lower leg senses the reality of the earth through the sole of the foot—whether asphalt or mud, the truth of our surroundings is already inscribed in the land. Each step we take on the ground, from calf to thigh, gradually shifts from movement to the thought that governs movement. From foot to mind, stiff as a fractured stone.
Upright stands the bustling metropolis; near and far, real and illusory, nature flickers. On the wooden tabletop, I carve the flood channel I often pass by—where trees are either planted or arranged to frame the riverside view. How does the capitalist world coexist with trees? All we know is that wood can now be easily transformed, replicated, and purchased. In this paradoxical and abundant system of commerce and seduction, we believe again and again—and question, again and again.
有時候，人類以想像作喻，將水瓶的圓口看成月亮；將房間的微塵看成沙石，偶爾亦憧憬未曾感知的意象，如同錢鐘書《圍城》所描述般一個模樣。
是什麼帶引現代人遠離自然生活，然後思想裡又深藏對自然的希冀？建築成山；柱子成樹。直直的，站着的，不止文明的人。直直的，精神奕奕，從遠古而來。直立人在進化論裡，是人類智慧及文明歷史關鍵的起始點。千百萬年後，資本主義社會成日常，流轉積累成規範。
柱子是樹，柱子種在地上，小腿感知的是來自腳掌傳達土地的實感，不論柏油路或泥濘，所有真實的現況早已見證於地，行走在地上的每一次碰觸，從小腿到大腿，漸漸由行動趨近主宰行動的念頭，腳到腦海，僵硬得像塊裂開的石。
直直的，繁華的都會；驟遠驟近的，亦真亦假的自然。在木桌面上刻劃時常路經的防洪渠，那裡有樹木被栽種，抑或被擺佈以環繞沿岸風景。資本世界如何跟樹木共處？只知道我們早能輕易轉化、複製及購買木頭，在矛盾又豐盛的商業運作及魅惑裡，我們一再相信，一再質疑。
