Twelve Homemade Sculptures

2020-2021

12 photographic documents

Size variable 

From June 2020, I started to collect carton boxes from my monthly online orders, painted them with different acrylic colours, then built them up like stacking blocks, and finally, photographed them as documentation. This project lasts for one year. 

This series came from my doubts about why so many items are overpackaged and whether these boxes are destined to end up in a trash bin. What can I do with them? Did people ever notice them? 

Inspired by John Baldessari’s Six Colorful Inside Jobs, I decided to paint these boxes with a single colour, and repeat this action every month.

Each composition represents my buying behaviour in each month. It is interesting to see the number of boxes differ every month and form into unique visual appearances. Also, people will notice that every one of them is uneven, some part is caved in and others have marks of tapes. 

After I photographed them as documents, I use them as the package of items that I need to send to others.

我从2020年6月开始每个月收集我网购所得的快递箱，用不同的丙烯颜料给它们上色，把它们像搭积木一样堆起来，并拍照记录。持续一年的时间。

这个系列的创作始于我对于为什么网购所得物品总是被过度包装，以及是否这些快递纸箱的最终命运都是被扔进垃圾桶的好奇与思考。我可以用它们来做点什么吗？人们究竟有没有留意到这些纸箱呢？

受 John Baldessari《Six Colorful Inside Jobs》的启发，我决定将这些纸箱刷成统一的颜色，并每月重复这一行为。

每一个组合/排列都代表了我每个月的消费行为。纸箱的数量，纸箱所构成的形状以及颜色都是不同的。它们的表面不平整，有的部分凹进去，并且纸箱上胶带的印记也很明显。

在我把它们拍摄下来作为这一行为的记录之后，我又用这些纸箱作为我寄给别人快递的包装。