Knowledge ball

知识球

Sculpture 雕塑 2016

The collected books are torn off one by one, wrapped in layers, and finally form a ball.

把使用过的书，一页一页撕下来，在一层层的包裹，最终形成一个球的形态。

Knowledge is the result of human understanding the objective world (including human beings) in practice, which includes facts, descriptions of information, or skills acquired in education and practice, and being disseminated through books. As Plato said, “A statement can be regarded as knowledge must meet three conditions. It must be verified, correct, and believed.” Book is one of the most important channels of knowledge dissemination, in modern life, the book is one of the most important things to accompany people. In the course of reading, we not only get the knowledge we need, but also attach a certain emotion to the book. People will transform the knowledge from the book into individual experience through indirect experience, thus gaining the means of recognizing the world and skills of “controlling” things. When book is used as an objective carrier to accomplish dissemination value, it is useless. But if book is retained as an emotion need, to some extent, it will lose its vale. Here I regard it as a spherical form and separates itself from readability, as a spherical object that exists like a sculpture, and named it “Knowledge ball”.

知识是人类在实践中认识客观世界（包括人类自身）的成果，它包括事实、信息的描述或在教育和实践中获得的技能，并通过书的形式进行传播。柏拉图说：“一条陈述能称得上是知识必须满足三个条件，它一定是被验证过的，正确的，而且是被人们相信的”。书是知识传播最主要的渠道之一，在现代生活过程中，书是陪伴人最长物之一。在阅读过程中，我们不但从中获取所需要的知识，同时也对书赋予了某种情感。人们会把书里的知识通过间接经验转化为个体经验，从而获得了认知世界的方法和“控制”事物的技能。当书作为客观载体完成传播价值时，它就是无用的。但作为情感的需要它被保留下来，从某种程度上说它失去了本身的价值。在这里我把它看成一个球型形态和失去本身阅读性，作为一个球型物体如雕塑般存在，并命名为“知识球”。