WORKS ELABORATION:
This work is a dialogue with the blocks, which lasted for over a year. Gradually I realized that the stacks and gaps of the blocks are like the distance and the way people get along with each other. I tried to give every block rounded edges so that they would be as gentle and less sharp as possible in their relationship the surrounding blocks. Each block is an integral unit, with its own meaning of existence, perhaps of different weights, large and small, light and heavy, but they all maintain a place in a relationship. The images come from tiny chips and circuit boards, and when zoomed in, the structure looks familiar, like a bird's eye view of the city. The macro and the micro produce an incredible and migratory connection.
TUTOR COMMENT:
Zhu Tuo is one of a few outstanding postgraduate students in the field of waterprint woodcut research in recent years. His waterprint woodcut works are not only exquisite in terms of skills, but also distinctly contemporary in terms of artistic concepts and visual expression, as he looks at the world’s events and objects from an artist’s unique humanistic perspective. This work is like a magnified microchip, and at the same time like the urban landscape in a macroscopic view, in which the gem-like indigo is superimposed in different shades of light to produce radiant spiritual light from within. As our eyes wander across the vast woodcut works, our minds switch between the macro and the micro, unable to distinguish between the projections of urban architecture or the geometrically complex cores. However, they all have an attribute in common, that is, to see all things on earth from a human perspective, and it is for this reason that everything is endowed with the warmth of humanity.