Chinese
Competition Academy Award
"The Confession of a Doll"Gan Qilu
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Work Description

I look forward to using this artwork to depict the emotions of my university days, like a sensitive and lonely person's self-expression. The boundaries and self-protective awareness between people in modern society are like a survival instinct of the mind. At times, I yearn to intertwine, romance, enjoy, and blend softly like a moth drawn to light, seeking freedom, but the sense of boundaries both protects me and squeezes me.

The artwork consists of scene pool models and character models, with the characters structured as mechanical inner skeletons and segmented outer shells.

The doll's design aims to simulate a feminine emotion, empathetic, fragile, delicate, and sentimental.

The inspiration for the pool design came from a trip to the countryside in Shanxi two years ago. Outside Guangsheng Temple, I saw a small lake surrounded by iron railings, crystal clear with visible aquatic plants swimming. Standing outside the iron railing, amidst the noisy crowd, I encountered this lake. Life always goes against the grain, going in the opposite direction, silently squeezing and grinding people, while the spiritual world exists within a box. I yearn for a free, innocent, idealistic life, aspiring for beauty. I feel that if this yearning were to be concretized, it would be a lake. Clear and bright, safe, tinged with tragedy, yet allowing me to freely roam.

The artwork's form draws inspiration from the current popular concept design in games and is based on a story: in a future world, at an unknown time, with biological extinction, a humanoid doll wanders alone in a deserted place. It listens to past recordings on a radio left by the lake and suddenly feels immensely lonely, deciding to end its life in this pool.

The production time, including learning software, design, and redoing, amounts to 262 hours, excluding post-rendering.


Expert Reviews

Tang Yao (Renowned art critic): The artist's sculpture has very distinctive features. On the metallic shell, they have achieved a sense of corporeality, even a kind of sensuality. Within that sensuality, there is also a touch of loneliness and sadness. The attention to detail, the finely segmented lines, adds a delightful touch. It feels like the artist possesses excellent sculpting skills and has a clear sense of their own artistic direction and value.