Yihua Yan | Yimyiwah

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.”

- Elvis Costello

“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight. And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night."

- Dylan Thomas

And I am just a visual storyteller.

This project is about if we can determine a certain relationship with the robot in the future. This seems to be an imagination of the future based on the lonely projection of modern society, but it has actually happened much earlier.

Carlo Rovelli once wrote about a stone: ‘A stone—in fact, it is just an event happening at a speed that we cannot record. The stone is in a constantly changing state. As long as the time limit is long enough, even if it will disappear, it will eventually transform into other forms.’

Not aiming to find the answer but feeling the possible future narrated. Feeling over explanation is the most important part of this project, imagine a horse with wings, even though virtually no horse has wings, we see the possible future from where we are, using a nostalgic gaze to scrabble the connections and possibilities in the present dimension, narrative from the center of ourselves(human), imagination is a romantic thing, squeezing the dimension of visualization and making space of imagining, creating our unique individual ‘future’.

"... the future measurements do not in any way change the data you collected today. But the future measurements do influence the kinds of details you can invoke when you subsequently describe what happened today.

…...We thus see that the future helps shape the story you tell of the past."

- Brian Greene 'The fabric of cosmos'

The universe is made up of lots of things, even though it looks like a thing.

Welcome aboard.