Living in a city, one often finds a connection between the body and the environment that restrain and shape each other. If the space and objects in life are created for people’s needs, it can be as if people change their physical state to conform to the existing rules. Since birth, people’s bodies are constantly judged by the society and are shaped into different forms by external powers. Physical labor, as a force that supports daily life operation, supports our identity with human body and is closely linked to external power structure. "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison" by Michel Foucault (1926-1984) in 1975 mentions the punishment and disciplines set against prisoners. In modern society, our identities and lifestyles have become a new way to control and discipline people’s bodies.
The topic “Body as a Coordinate：The Imagination of Body in Contemporary Life " includes many aspects of the author's observation of the self. We are living in contemporary life but also want to keep a distant from it. The aspects of real life reflected in the inner state also extends to the creation. Two opposite elements are often used to create tension in the work. “In between" is not a choice with only two options or two aspects, but a situation that is always exceptional from the existing options. The author analyzes the contradictory relationship between the external and the internal conditions. Such contradictions can also be regarded as self-reflection on the logic and conditions of reality, and creation is the intermediate point which wanders in between, an attempt to escape the original relationship between oneself and reality.
The subjects in this study are the author’s own works from 2016 to 2021. The chapters herein describe the gap between the observation of the environment and personal perceptions, move on to the purpose of creation and the changes to be brought about by the creation, and in turn propose a corresponding practice of “flipping," such as taking inappropriate actions in life and canceling the purpose of using certain things in life and so on. Personal artistic practices inspire small collisions with subtle conventions in life, allowing us to distance ourselves from daily life and pursue value in opposite directions of existing norms.