Wang Zhanjun

Author: Wang Zhanjun
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Images have long permeated our lives before words—through picture-word recognition, storytelling with visuals, or scribbled doodles, they prompt our growth. By the time we've squandered most of our youth, our psychological age enters a plateau—and only at this moment, we can fully perceive the vitality of images and words combined, and luckily derive joy from it. The fusion of images and text inevitably brings about a transformation in form or essence. In fashion magazines or newspaper supplements, neatly printed fonts become less rigid due to the intervention of illustrations. Even, illustrations act as instigators of the text, under their influence, the text itself reveals a subtle sensuality. The life intertwined with images and text is a different kind of existence. At street corners, subway entrances, or ferry docks—in any place with an element of the unknown, images and text can permeate each other, complement one another, and annotate unexpected fragments. The fusion of images and text can be non-mainstream, rebellious, a little edgy, and wild. It can be a life detached from daily chores and constraints, a life of leisure, a quirky life, a life curled up in a attic or a life of unrestrained wandering like a untamed horse. It is a life of intricate emotional experiences. Images. Text. Hand gestures. The language of the heart. The techniques are not complex, yet they hide the entire world.