Wanxi Kan

My artwork of degree show named Loneliness is a contemporary artist. It transforms people’s lonely state (virtual) into lonely space (real), and I create a lonely space and lonely corner.

This space is the embodiment of our mind. When visitors are in this lonely space, they can truly feel the loneliness brought to us by this space. This space has a makaron color system, which is very beautiful, and I use plaster to make a 3D effect, making them like delicious and sweet cream. However, they also look disgusting and messy. These contradictory adjectives appear in this work at the same time, but it doesn’t make people feel strange.

My original inspiration for this work came from my life. I often see my friends alone and drinking. I never drink, but when I’m lonely, I eat a lot of desserts alone. This is our different way of fighting loneliness. As we all know, always drinking and eating dessert can make us happy, but it is not good for our health. Isn’t this a kind of loneliness? Before I came to the UK, I made artworks with the theme of depression. Loneliness may lead to depression, but it is more common than depression. Loneliness can make us have more experience to think alone, which is positive. It can also make us sad and depressed, which is negative. The process of artistic creation is inseparable from loneliness. How to face loneliness is a problem faced by every artist. Every work of contemporary art is a lonely individual. How to reflect this not monotonous loneliness is something worth thinking about. I did research on the works of artist Karla black. The color of her works makes people feel happy but lonely, which is exactly the effect I want to achieve.

This artwork is more like my current state. How to correctly face the impact of loneliness is a problem that must be solved on my way to become an artist. I will continue to think and create artworks of the loneliness series.

我的学位展作品《孤独》是一位当代艺术家。它将人们的孤独状态（虚拟）转化为孤独的空间（真实），我创造了一个孤独的空间和孤独的角落。

这个空间是我们思想的体现。当游客置身于这个孤独的空间时，他们才能真正感受到这个空间带给我们的孤独。这个空间有一个马卡龙色系，非常漂亮，我用石膏做3D效果，让它们像美味可口的奶油。然而，它们看起来也很恶心和凌乱。这些自相矛盾的形容词同时出现在这部作品中，但并不让人感到陌生。

我对这项工作的最初灵感来自我的生活。我经常看到我的朋友一个人喝酒。我从不喝酒，但是当我寂寞的时候，我会一个人吃很多甜点。这是我们对抗孤独的不同方式。众所周知，老是喝甜品可以让我们开心，但对我们的健康却是不利的。这不是一种孤独吗？在我来英国之前，我以抑郁为主题创作了艺术作品。孤独可能会导致抑郁，但它比抑郁更常见。孤独可以让我们有更多的经验来独自思考，这是积极的。它也会让我们感到悲伤和沮丧，这是消极的。艺术创作的过程离不开孤独。如何面对孤独是每个艺术家都面临的问题。每一件当代艺术作品都是一个孤独的个体。如何体现这种不单调的寂寞是值得思考的。我对艺术家卡拉布莱克的作品进行了研究。她作品的色彩让人感到快乐而孤独，这正是我想要达到的效果。

这件艺术品更像我现在的状态。如何正确面对孤独的冲击，是我成为艺术家的路上必须要解决的问题。我会继续思考和创作孤独系列的艺术作品。