# Project Description Sea of Driftwood, 2023 Baihui Lin Summary Final work Baihui Lin was born in China in 1996. Now she lives in London. She combines artistic expression with literature, exploring the Chinese traditional strange novels and western literariness of art, and the reflection of reality. Her works are mainly light and metal installations, oil paintings, and jade carvings. Influenced be the Great Nirvana Sutra to connect the reflection and resonance of people in different cultural backgrounds. Baihui Lin was born in China in 1996. Now she lives in London. She combines artistic expression w... College Chelsea College of Arts Course MA Fine Art Graduation year 2023 Sea of Driftwood is a series of installation works composed of metal and aluminum materials, light images, and special fabrics. Based on the Buddhist Nirvana Sutra, Lacan's master-slave dialectic, Freud's psychoanalysis, and Goethe's Faust as the representative of the ID, ego and superego, the artist studied this work. This work is composed of: The self-consecrated God, Parable II, The seventh, Psychedelic mulberry field consists of four parts. Artists pay attention to the dominance of individual spiritual will over the body and human rights, questioning whether life is necessarily subordinate to theocracy and patriarchy. The first part is entitled Self-Consecrated God, and it talks about the state of the individual's will to fight inward and outward in search of the superego. This is well explained in the Video core of the work, which uses slow performance art to show the tug between the internal struggle of oneself and the external social obstacles. In addition, she places Video in the central position of the abdomen of the portrait, which reflects the individual's inward self-observation and reflection. After fighting against internal and external resistance, the self-god enters the next step of reflection: do humans really need to be the supreme God? This Parable shows the return of humanity in the parable. Human nature is like a fan, sublime and dark are the front and back of the fan, they cannot be separated. How to reconcile with oneself is a new subject. After The fan of self-acceptance, the seventh is inspired by the Buddhist idea of reincarnation. When life goes round and round, people will appear in different regions with new identities, genders and positions, and each life must overcome new human issues. Here, the artist takes Buddha, who oversees laws in different fields, as a reference, and combines with the fire of hell. Six eyes are painted, symbolizing examination and reflection, while the viewer is looking back on the seventh generation of the first six eyes. The last work is a mountain of metal clouds on the sea. The sea in this work is a laser fabric spray painting of depleted land, which is then cut into the shape of a sea. The inspiration comes from an ancient conch that the artist picked up in the desert as a child, which confirms the Chinese proverb, "The sea changes the field." She made the mountain into the shape of a cloud, which is to see the distant mountains of her hometown and the clouds on the horizon into one, difficult to distinguish, implying the fickleness of the world, and the cycle of human thought generation after generation. The whole series of works is like a circle, from the inner circle of the individual to the outside world, and then from the outside society and self-overlapping. The artist's use of aluminum as the main material is proof of this, aluminum is like a mirror that can reflect, but it is not really seen, like reality and illusion, self and society are mixed, and all this is like driftwood drifting in the sea, and finally return to illusion. Final work Research and process Work in process Back assembly and debugging. Share this project Sea of Driftwood is a series of installation works composed of metal and aluminum materials, light images, and special fabrics. Based on the Buddhist Nirvana Sutra, Lacan's master-slave dialectic, Freud's psychoanalysis, and Goethe's Faust as the representative of the ID, ego ... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Being Human Body Community Histories Identity Nature & Environment Installation Metal