Illustrate My Chinese Name
我的名字——装饰练习
20 hand-drawn ink illustrations exploring the ideographic nature of Chinese characters — starting from my own name.
20幅手绘墨水插画，探索汉字的象形性——从我自己的名字开始。
Chinese characters carry ideographic origins — each stroke once depicted something tangible. This project takes that quality and runs with it, using pen and ink to reimagine the three characters of my name (王若芸) as figures, landscapes, and scenes.
王 becomes a person standing between heaven and earth, an oracle bone carving, a leaf. 若 transforms into a woman tangled in stone, a figure praying under stars. 芸 morphs into a 3D QR code, a fantasy globe.
Beyond my name, I extended the exercise to other subjects — wine glasses deconstructed into Pac-Man and waterfalls, a mirror that distorts, a pop-art room, a Nordic dreamscape, and a self-portrait in ancient Egyptian style.
汉字承载着象形的起源——每一笔曾经描绘着具象的事物。这个项目抓住了这种特质并加以延伸，用纸笔重新想象我名字中的三个字（王若芸）作为人物、风景和场景。
王变成了顶天立地的人、甲骨文石刻、一片树叶。若化身为纠缠于岩石中的女子、星空下祈祷的身影。芸变形为3D二维码、幻想中的地球。
在名字之外，我将练习拓展到其他主题——酒杯被解构为吃豆人和瀑布、一面扭曲的镜子、波普风格的房间、北欧梦境，以及一幅古埃及风格的自画像。
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