XIANGYING CHEN
Material: plastic, mesh, plaster, leave, sand
Photo: Gabrielle Connole
2021
This work is about signal receivers. people’s brain receives a lot of different information every day, but because of some limitations, everyone may have different understandings and reactions to information, and this may lead to misunderstandings.
Among people, there is a group that is highly sensitive to surroundings. their bodies are born to receive more signals than others and deeply process signals to trigger various concepts, just like they get more receivers than others. Therefore, they are more likely to be affected by the environment and often feel overwhelmed. While others respond positively to a huge amount of information, they may feel fatigued and tend to go away.
In a society that values extroversion and resilience, this group of people may feel out of place, and people may find them difficult to work with because people don’t properly understand their conditions.
Through this work, I hope my audience can imagine the receivers in their brains, pay more attention to trying to understand the different mind states between people. Trying to know differences of people and feel each other’s presence, in terms of receiving signals from outside, to reduce the pain caused by “misunderstanding.”