SINNER PRAYER
《罪者祈祷》
AR Sculpture & Statement Art | 2022
《罪者祈祷》
AR Sculpture & Statement Art | 2022
Sinner Prayer explores socio-cultural identity and religious paradigmas through Augmented Reality. The work explores fractal and contradictory perceptions of behaviour and its simplicity stands bold within the delivery of the message.
This is a work about the conflict that exists between faith and what we do in our daily lives. It can be described as a more personal expression of myself, but at the same time I believe there are many people who share the same struggle as I do. Everyone who has faith but feels inadequate because many of their actions in life seem to conflict with the ideas in their faith.
I have always been reluctant to tell people around me about my Buddhist identity. Because I was afraid they would preconceive some stereotypes about me, and the truth is that they do.
I pray in front of the Buddha statue almost every day, but I often feel that I am not worthy. Because from other people's perspectives I don't look like a Buddhist, and I often think I am a sinner. But in reality Buddhism is inclusive and you can be a prayer no matter what you are or struggle with for whatever so-called worldly behaviour you feel inadequate for. The practice is not about trying to limit you with all kinds of standards, but rather about discerning the nature of things to live your life in a righteous manner, which takes process. This is why I have named the project ‘ Sinner Prayer’ - people tend to look at what others haven't done and lose sight of what others have done. Life is like looking in a mirror. You see yourself but not someone else.
This is a work about the conflict that exists between faith and what we do in our daily lives. It can be described as a more personal expression of myself, but at the same time I believe there are many people who share the same struggle as I do. Everyone who has faith but feels inadequate because many of their actions in life seem to conflict with the ideas in their faith.
I have always been reluctant to tell people around me about my Buddhist identity. Because I was afraid they would preconceive some stereotypes about me, and the truth is that they do.
I pray in front of the Buddha statue almost every day, but I often feel that I am not worthy. Because from other people's perspectives I don't look like a Buddhist, and I often think I am a sinner. But in reality Buddhism is inclusive and you can be a prayer no matter what you are or struggle with for whatever so-called worldly behaviour you feel inadequate for. The practice is not about trying to limit you with all kinds of standards, but rather about discerning the nature of things to live your life in a righteous manner, which takes process. This is why I have named the project ‘ Sinner Prayer’ - people tend to look at what others haven't done and lose sight of what others have done. Life is like looking in a mirror. You see yourself but not someone else.
- statement part -
I burn incense and pray and do some meditation and other practices in front of the Buddha almost every day. So I collected some incense ashes from my incense holder.
- the prayer
Sometimes I smoke, which is not a good habit. In the eyes of others, they think that if a person smokes, then the person should not call themselves a Buddhist.
So I have collected some ashes from my ashtray to symbolise the image of a Buddhist who is not accepted by everyone.
- the sinner
‘ This is a sentence I wrote with incense ash.
This is a sentence I wrote with cigarette ash.
How could you tell the difference?’
What I want to express in this short statement is how could you rely on appearances to tell if someone is pious or not, even if they look the same. They can be the same person even if they have different identities or are doing different things. Many things are not black and white, just like incense ash and cigarette ash they even look the same and are not essentially good or bad.
- AR sculpture part -
This work was graded at the highest level - ‘Excellent’ in the RCA
该作品获得RCA评分最高级 - ‘Excellent’
I wanted to make a work with a sense of irony. So I decided to make a model in nomad. It consists of a mirror and two people sitting on either side of it, praying. One of them represents the so-called prayer and the other the so-called sinner, you can say that they are two different people or that they are the same person showing seemingly identical but different reflections on each side of the mirror. After building the models in nomad, I imported them into dimension for material attachment and colouring.
I ended up implementing it as an AR piece in Aero, where you can place it on any flat surface and immerse yourself in the experience and view the piece.
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