catch wind
mild steel, silk fabric
50cm x 50cm x 200cm
2022
The wind can move through any space, whether urban or rural, it is invisible but has a huge impact, the wind has played a huge role since before mankind had a strong enough technological level, for example in ancient sea travel the wind was everything, the wind also brought pollen, and fallen leaves to places they had never set foot in before to restart their new mission, thus facilitating the development of new things.
It is so invisible that society has now discovered that even a butterfly stirring its wings can cause a storm on the other side of the world, and that the wind can cross half the globe in a single day. Even in modern times, mankind is not immune to its arrival at any time.
The wind has represented freedom since ancient times, and in China people often say it is like the wind, referring to the unrestrained nature of man, but it has never been 'seen', its true nature seems to be mixed with the air, and I wanted to present the wind in its form.
The wind generated by the vibrations of the butterfly's wings and the butterfly itself would be enveloped in a semi-circular net, which would be controlled by a grid of ropes before it could turn into a storm, and humans have been using the south, east, north, west to identify the direction of the wind since ancient times. I have placed wind-catching nets in all four directions, trying to capture all the winds on the human definition