Su Chang

“Street Garden,” Fiberglass Sculpture, 49 x 49 x 50 cm, 2010

These propaganda images reminded me the sculptures found in gardens which are different from the unfamiliar stainless steel sculptures which showed up later in the 1990s. Unlike the later, these sculptures are lovely and full of humanity and simplicity. These familiar shapes were found everywhere in street gardens although they carried grand aspirations of science and speed. However, they were ultimately engulfed by waves of modernization which desired to make progress breaking human feeling into a fragmentized physical world – leaving our minds empty filled only with a kind of homeless sense of anxiety.When you’re hungry and thirsty you’ll swallow whatever you can get. In this time of continuously swelling desires, an intellectualized humanity, a simple love and a search for ideals, is a very precious thing indeed.