Yiran Guo

In this work, each mandarin includes a one-sentence diary and a corresponding illustration and each of them is my one week. There are 30 weeks in total, which is 30 mandarins. I printed the year, start date and end date of each week on the surface of each mandarin. 

From the meaning of the word Mandarin itself, it is not only a fruit, but also the official language of China. The language is formal and public, whereas my diary is casual and private. I placed my personal and private thoughts in this container with official and public meaning, there is a contrast between the word mandarin and my diary, that also explains the name of the work, Niradnam, the word is the reversed form of the word, mandarin and like the antagonism of the form of the work itself. Are they fake books? Or fake mandarins? Butthey are my real life and records.

On October 15, 2020, I read some news about the cancellation of Christmas activities, People's stronger expectations for Christmas in a common predicament were also shattered. looked back at Christmas 2019 from the album in my phone and saw these two little Christmas trees I drew on that day. Then I decided to make a tree every day to celebrate the ordinary life of each day. Therefore, I began to print the trunk with wooden blocks and draw the branches with green colored pencils every day, so that each tree contained the same part and the different part. It was also like our daily life. Every day we have same routine and also have things that happened outside of our control, they are different things. So, this activity is kind of a special ceremony for me in my daily life.

This is a two-meter-long footprint book

In a common dilemma facing the world, some common symbols, languages and rules were born. People follow these same rules and have the same behaviors, thus forming order. These orders can be thought of as a kind of program of replication. Two meters, at this particular stage, has become a gauge of safety distance. The ubiquitous equidistant crowds make this rule more visual.

Footprint stickers with safe distance reminders on the ground in the queuing area are the result of the same production and reproduction process, but are equally binding on the different individuals. While, in this work, these seemingly identical footprints are different from each other. This is also the importance of the process of hand-printing in this work. These unique footprints are the second presentation of the rules and requirements, but also the embodiment of people's cooperation with the rules.

This is a series of images that result from a discussion about the possibility of access to another world. Regarding the possibility of another world, it can be anywhere and can be reached by any ways. It may seem absurd, impractical, and nonsensical. Here, if we regard the paper as a world, then the space outside each page is regarded as another world. Each of them seems to end at the edge of the page, but in fact, the imagination of any one of them can extend indefinitely. Then, the he places guided by these edge images will be full of infinite possibilities.