<p>Hi Xuewu,</p><p>This email is to let you know your grades for the final projects.</p><p>A</p><p>My voice record software and my internet have been acting up so I don't have a file for you, but thank you for all of your hard work this semester, both in the studio and at home. Your work and dedication are exemplary. Taking your prints into 3-dimensional form adds so much interest and complexity, beyond what is already present in your prints. Keep experimenting and I look forward to seeing all of the work you make in the future! </p><p>I hope that your summer is productive and you stay healthy and creative! If you need anything, please let me know! Please keep in touch :)</p><p>Best,</p><p>Kate</p> <p>Media Intervention Statement </p><p>Xuewu Zheng</p><p>Professor: Kaitlyn Collyer </p><p>05/18/2020</p><p>I use the Bible book and cotton to make handmade paper, and make a wooden mold of small cubes, and then put the bible pulp into the mold to manually press it into a small cube. </p><p>Control the concentration of Bible pulp to create different colors. Wait for each cube to be completely dry, then use the typeface to print on the paper cube with a hammer, leaving a trace of the text.</p><p>The visually simple cube color blocks are much more interesting with the printed text. </p><p>Each bricks on the famous Great Wall of ancient China is printed with a text logo, and the bricks and tiles of ancient buildings also have such printed logos to record the name of the manufacturer or other information.</p><p>When I show this works, it will arranged in the style of an ancient city wall.</p><p>Bible books are cultural carriers that can be read and are important objects of religious belief. After being polished into pulp, all visible text no longer exists. I think two things are meaningful: First, challenge people's sacred religious beliefs and the cognitive concept of a book or an object as a printed matter. Second, I change what I can touch and see into something that I can touch but not see, and naturally generate an abstract and figurative, presence and absence concept.</p><p><br></p><p>装置作品“禅说”阐释：</p><p><br></p><p>我的这个综合材料课程，是使用圣经书和短纤维棉花在混在一起进行造手工纸，使用自制的小立方体的木模具，将圣经纸浆装入模具中手工压制成型小立方体作品，一共制作了二百四十五个。</p><p><br></p><p>控制圣经纸张在纸浆中的浓度，来制造不同深浅的色彩。等待每一个立方体完全干透了，再使用印制散版版画的铅字，在纸立方体上用锤子打印、留下文字痕迹。</p><p><br></p><p>视觉上简单的立方体色块，有了打印上去的文字显得有趣了很多也拥有了符号及历史存留的意念。中国古代著名的长城上的每一块砖都印有文字标识，古代建筑的砖和瓦上也都有这样打印的标识来记载制造者的姓名或者其他信息。</p><p><br></p><p>展览这组件作品的的时候，堆积摆放成古代城墙的样式；装框子上墙；配合其他“禅说系列”装置作品在地面或古家具台面展示等。</p><p><br></p><p>圣经书籍是可以阅读的文化载体、是宗教信仰的重要物件，打磨成纸浆后，一切可视的文字不复存在，一切内容不再可视。</p><p>我觉得两个事情有意义：第一，挑战人们神圣的宗教信仰与作为印刷品的书或者说一个物件的认知观念。第二，我将摸得着也看得见的东西，变成摸得着但看不见的东西，自然生成一个抽象和具象、有和无的概念。</p><p><br></p> <p>Meditation (Cube)</p><p>Installation/ Bible and second cut cotton </p><p>装置作品“禅说”之一（立方体）</p><p>圣经、短纤维棉</p><p>2020</p> <p>Meditation (Triangle)</p><p>Installation/ Bible and second cut cotton </p><p>装置作品“禅说”之一（三角体）</p><p>圣经、短纤维棉</p><p>2019</p> <p>纽约哈德逊艺术中心</p><p>常年接待中国艺术家参加国际驻访项目：</p><p>因为2020年疫情的影响，艺术家们无法正常参加春夏季节的国际驻访项目及其他国际艺术活动，但是秋季和冬季的项目会正常进行，欢迎艺术家们及早准备和申请报名。</p><p>www.hudsoncenterforcontemporaryarts.com</p><p>zhengxuewu@hotmail.com /</p><p>hudsoncenter@163.com</p>