Xinyu Li

"The creation of monsters is based on a specific culture and time background. It involves many complex factors and emotions, such as anxiety, fear and desire."

                                                                                                                                                     —— Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

I dream a lot, precisely almost every night; I'm used to write them down after getting up, as diaries.

Abandoned buildings, humid forests and creepy creatures repeatedly appear in these dreams. Thus, a small installation is set as an abandoned playground for my alienation creatures. Their living habitat has been represented and invited into reality through 3D printing. 

Reversely, a 3D animation brings audiences into monsters' world, in other words my dream world.

According to Sigmund Freud, "dream" exists as a repressed desire which has been transformed. Is it possible that the monsters and the ruins represent the hidden sides of myself? Is that the same for other people? I am still confused.  

Sketches of unpainted 3d-print monsters, I projected my ruins exploration videos on them to gain inspiration for final installments. 

 The sketches are classified as digital collages. 

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