MERGE

Sometimes people may even suffer psychological and physical discomfort, such as cold sweat, restlessness, and distraction when no companions are around. These technology and electronic products have indeed begun to impact our lives. Our life has been entwined with these things, and it's not easy to get separated from them. Therefore, I thought of making an installation to reflect and remind people of this problem. When browsing information, I noticed a scientist, Peter Scott Morgan, who, knowing he was terminally ill and was dying soon, mechanically replaced his organs one by one to express his resistance to the disease. From him, I figured out what installation I wanted to make.
Nowadays, various convenient technological products have gradually become people's indispensable necessities. So, I started to manufacture this installation. First, I chose the keyboard, mouse, books, pad, and other tools for communication and learning. Then I used plaster and bandage to cover the materials and adopted foam glue for shaping and fixing. After fixing it, I put this whole together with other human organs. In the end, I added the indicator that displays the virtual avatar of social media and the mechanical arm that simulates the daily holding of a mobile phone to reflect that people cannot live without today's technological living environment, just like a semi-mechanical body that gradually loses its freedom and self. Yet this deterioration is noteworthy and needs to be improved.