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An Uncontrolled Expression: A Butter Keyboard

 An Uncontrolled Expression: A Butter Keyboard

回归失控:一个黄油键盘

Dual Screen Video,2021

Communication technology allows us to connect with the other side of the earth, while words and emotions become data, flickering on the smooth screen.

My fingers, as a tool used to write words, as a tool now used for typing, long for an out-of-control expression.

I made a butter keyboard without letters. In a random scene, I engraved letters on the keyboard, and the positions of the engraved letters are random. In the process of typing, I keep hesitating, because the positions of the letters are chaotic and the material butter makes letters hard to see. Every time I type one letter, I need to look for a long time. At the same time, because the keyboard is butter, my finger temperature will melt it, the letters will gradually become blurred, and I have to re-engrave it.

This typing process is tedious, repetitive, and even sometimes annoying.

The keyboard finally melted, and the line of words that took me half an hour to type disappeared at the same time.

通讯科技让我们联系与远方取得联系的同时,话语和情感都变成了数据,在光滑的屏幕上闪烁。

我的手指,作为曾经用于书写文字的工具,作为现在用于打字的工具,渴望一次失控的表达。

我用黄油做了一个没有字母的键盘。在随机的场景里,我在键盘上刻下字母,刻下字母的位置是随机的。在打字的过程中,我持续的犹豫,因为字母的位置是混乱的,每打一个字母,我都需要找很久。同时,因为键盘是黄油,一个按键被触碰多次之后,上面的字母会逐渐模糊,我不得不重新再刻上。

这是一个繁琐的,反复的,需要耐心的,甚至有时令人懊恼的打字过程。同时也是一个未经设计过的,个人的,不求他人回应的,只存在于当下的表达体验。

键盘最终融化了,我花了半小时才打下的一行字,也只存在记忆里。