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2019-2020

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In the winter of 2019, I was wandering aimlessly on the street in Shenzhen, and I somehow noticed the abstract-painting-like wall. I moved closer trying to figure out what has been written on it, without doubt, just some phone numbers for illegal ads, so-called ‘urban psoriasis’ (roughly translated from Chinese). But I found it hilarious because of the way of government‘s “cleaning measure” – as they were trying to cover the ads with new paint, which made the wall even messier. I took some photos of these walls and overlapped 3 to 5 pictures in Photoshop to form new images, imitating what the government has done but in a digital way.

城市街道墙面上旧的广告、涂鸦被新漆遮盖，原有的文字变得难以辨认，近似抽象画的效果。我将它们拍摄下来，并在Photoshop中作为图层（通常是3～5张），不断叠加，由此形成新的图像。