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Illustration

Rui Zhang

Rui is an object-oriented visual-player who reintegrates the shape and function of objects, which weaves a speculative dialogue with the audience.


To engage with the familiar but bizarre states of vital essentials, by assembling a visual anchor between the object and the reader through words.


A visual discipline is created in terms of  words’ obligation, the objects’ function and identity is redefined both as a reaction and retention from the reader.

Degree Details

School of Communication

Illustration
Rui Zhang

Rui’s current research ‘Object Conversation’ reveals hidden things in his personal life, and presents them as an object-oriented conversation with the reader-viewer. It does so in three treatments:


Speculative: the description of the word is ambiguous; is a flowing idea; rather than a static form.


Sequential: the position of the object is various; is a periodic movement; rather than a static gesture.


Gameplay: the interaction of the audience is adaptive; is a subjective recreation; rather than a static instruction.


In combination, these treatments cognitively refresh the reader-viewer, leading to the completion of the ‘visual bridge’.

Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Horizontal
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Vertical
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Circulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation
Object Conversation - Accumulation

Extracting the significance of moments with objects, Rui grasps at his speculative thinking about living emotions and hippocampus memories.


From a transitive apple mind debate after school, to a micro eyedrop before bed.

From the overnight growth of a wisdom tooth, to a stay-up-play with a puzzle game.


This publication is an ontological investigation moving between the verbal and the visual, and into the significance of object identity.


Size: 23.5 cm x 17.5 cm

Pages: 32

Printing: Risograph 

Published: June 2021

Edition: 30 copies

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Medium:

Risograph Print

Size:

23.5 cm x 17.5 cm